Percussion Ensemble: with featured guest Jorge Alabê

The CU Boulder Percussion Ensemble presents a concert of Brazilian music featuring guest artist Jorge Alabê, a renowned master of the genre. The program will include styles such as choro (instrumental music), Candomblé drumming and song (a sacred Afro-Brazilian tradition), samba de roda (call-and-response singing with improvised drumming), pagode (backyard party music) and samba enredo (drumming and song performed by samba schools in Carnaval parades), illustrating the history, evolution and musical connections of these African diasporic art forms.

This performance features Carl Dixon, director; Jorge Alabê, percussion and vocals; Alexander Moll Johnson, cavaquinho and vocals.

This performance is made possible in part by the Roser Visiting Artist Endowment, the Center for African and African American Studies and the Dr. C.W. Bixler Family Foundation.

Presented for free in-person and livestreamed by the CU Boulder College of Music!

For complete information visit: https://cupresents.org/performance/1746646888/cu-music/percussion-ensemble/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=com26

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