Columnist Michael Kraft highlights Samba do Mar Humboldt and Samba da Alegria's work bringing dance and rhythm to the community.

Monday nights feel like Saturdays in Rio’s Little Africa neighborhood when the sun sets and the samba starts to play. Surrounded by a mostly young crowd, seven musicians sit around a table with the ...

Part of the large and enthusiastic crowd which enjoyed the Samba Parade through the town on Sunday afternoon. Picture: Paul Mohan Rio Mitchell from Five Oaks at the Samba Parade through the town on ...

Nothing captures the sound, the mood or the languor of summer quite like the bossa nova. Invented along the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s, the quietly swaying Brazilian music became a ...

Samba, widely viewed as Brazil's national music style, was developed in Rio de Janeiro under the influence of immigrant black people from the Brazilian state of Bahia. Its roots are African, mainly ...

CHILDREN from seven schools cheered up rain- soaked shoppers yesterday when they added the rhythmic samba beat to a colourful carnival parade. A morning downpour failed to dampen the spirits of the ...

Samba has its roots among the slaves of Brazil's northeast Bahia before arriving in Rio, then the country's capital, where it took form and became the soul of the Brazilian carnival. Today, samba ...