Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...

Caique Vidal is a Durham-based Afro-Brasilian musician and teacher. Caique Vidal’s voice is robust and unequivocal over driving percussion and horn sections. In harmony with his band Batuque, the ...

Batalá Washington introduces the sounds and roles that each drum plays in the bateria, and puts together a basic samba reggae groove. Part of a series of educational videos created for the Smithsonian ...

A Samba reggae group participating in the Notting Hill Carnival hope to make sustainability “part of the party” as they don outfits made in Brazilian Samba schools that have been saved from landfill.

Music is a great way to connect people from different cultures. Here in Philadelphia, a group gathers people who share the same passion: playing Afro-Brazilian music. Batala Philadelphia is a drumming ...

It’s a dank winter’s evening. Outside fog is swirling in the streets but inside, in a cavernous church in Portsmouth with paint peeling off the walls, it’s carnival time. Well, not quite carnival: ...

Caique Vidal is a Durham-based Afro-Brasilian musician and teacher. Caique Vidal’s voice is robust and unequivocal over driving percussion and horn sections. In harmony with his band Batuque, the ...