Loud, fast-paced drum rhythms will storm out of the Fowler Museum today as the UCLA Music of Brazil Ensemble plays one of its last performances of the season. The drum ensemble, also known as ...

The sound of beating drums echoed as the Patricio Acevedo: Brazilian Percussion Ensemble played as part of the Common Ground on the Hill class, at McDaniel College on July 1, 2016.

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 ...

Talk about a birthday bash! A massive all-female Afro-Brazilian drum group bass-ed in Brooklyn is celebrating its third birthday with a show at Littlefield in Gowanus on May 16. The band’s co-founder ...

Long time maker of drum grooves for Apple’s GarageBand and Logic music creation applications, Beta Monkey Music on Monday released a new set of grooves in the Brazilian drum style. Drum Werks XIV: The ...

A writer struggled with being present. This Brazilian drum helped her pay attention. By Carolina Abbott Galvão Earlier this year, Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” came on at a party ...

World-music fans have some great choices this week, as bands from Africa and Brazil converge on the city. From Africa comes Nii Tettey Tetteh & the Kusun Ensemble, an eclectic group from Ghana that ...

It’s not Carnival, and we’re not in Brazil, but we do have a festival — Exit Zero Jazz Festival — and PhillyBloco will bring the best of Brazilian percussion right to our own backyard when it plays ...