Events:

Brasil Cultura Funk: Zanzibar’s newest residency launches May 19, 2010

Brasil Cultura Funk is based on the idea that it’s the local Brazilian 
communities’ responsibility to expose and celebrate its thriving art 
scene beyond its beloved bossa nova and Carnaval. With the current 
popularity of artists like Céu and Seu Jorge, who serve up unique and 
hip versions of samba and soul, host Carla Rigolin Hassett is betting 
on Los Angelinos wanting to know what else “we have to offer.” 
Resident band MUAMBA (samba-funk) and resident DJ Sergio Mielniczenko 
(KPFK/Brazilian Hour) present local and traveling guest bands, DJs, 
visual artists, and other Brazilian and Latin cultural showings on the 
3rd Wednesday of each month. Zanzibar is located at 1301 5th St. Santa 
Monica, CA 90401.

www.zanzibarlive.com

A native of São Paulo, Carla Rigolin Hassett is "an MVP player in LA 
musical affairs seemingly no matter what the genre or mode.” World 
Pulse Magazine goes on to say that “if Bebel Gilberto has turned your 
head, Hassett will continue to set you swiveling." 
Carla will release a new single to the press on May 19th and front 
samba-funk band MUAMBA. WWW.myspace.com/carlahassett  WWW.myspace.com/muambafunk

The Brazilian Consulate General in Los Angeles launches new BRAZILIAN 
HOUR site, web radio & TV--

The Brazilian Hour, a well-renowned international radio program 
launched in 1978, has been continuously produced by the cultural 
sector of the Brazilian Consulate of Los Angeles. 
We are pleased to inform that the program will initiate a new phase 
with the launching of a user-friendly and informative website that 
will include programming in 4 languages, Portuguese, Spanish, English 
and French.  The site will also provide a novelty aspect that includes 
the Brazilian Hour Internet TV, presenting original music and 
interviews and calendar of events.  One of the newest features 
available will be the Brazilian Hour web radio offering 24 hour music 
selections and special features on composers, music styles and new 
Brazilian music releases.

www.brazilianhour.org

BRAZILIAN CHORO AND SAMBA 
WITH KATIA MORAES AND TED FALCON 
featuring BANDA BRASIL

SAT | 7:30 PM | MAY 15, 2010 
General Admission $22

"...Moraes' singing, as always, was a virtual definition of the 
passion that is an implicit part of Brazilian music." 
- Los Angeles Times

A rare opportunity to see famed Brazilian singer Katia Moraes team up 
with choro musician Ted Falcon from the Los Angeles Choro Ensemble. 
Choro is considered the first truly instrumental  music of Brazil 
which originated even before American Jazz... The style often has a 
fast  rhythm, syncopation which requires a high degree of  virtuosity 
and improvisation.

The Brazilian singer and lyricist Katia Moraes began her career in Rio 
de Janeiro in the 80's with her energetic band "O Espirito da Coisa" . 
Since then she has performed and/or recorded with top Brazilian acts 
like Sergio Mendes, Airto Moreira and Oscar Castro-Neves. Kátia 
currently performs with Sambaguru and Pure Samba (which was awarded an 
L.A. Treasure Award by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department).

Ted Falcon has had a varied and impressive career as a violinist, 
working with such diverse artists as Suzanne Vega, Weezer and 
Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil. Though violin is rarely seen in Choro 
music, Ted's knowledge and skills within the artform led to a 
professorship at one of the most famous music schools in Brazil. Banda 
Brasil includes some of the finest Brazilian folk artists in the 
country.

THE ENSEMBLE: 
Katia Moraes - voice 
Ted Falcon - violin and mandolin 
Colin Walker - 7 string guitar 
Mitchell Long - cavaquinho and guitar 
Ami Molinelli - pandeiro and percussion

http://thebroadstage.com/index.php/259

This Friday MAY 14 - DON'T MISS THEIR LIVE  PERFORMANCE ON THE GLOBAL 
VILLAGE - 
KPFK-LA 90.7 FM 11-1PM STREAMING AT  www.kpfk.org

The Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) is hosting 
Brazilian 
guitarist and composer Fabiano Borges at UCLA. Mr. Borges is a 
guitarist and 
composer who holds a master’s degree in Musicology from the University 
of Brasilia, 
Brazil. His musicological research consists of choro studies, focusing 
on the seven-string 
guitar. He has given concerts in several countries, such as Peru, 
Argentina, Ecuador, 
Spain and Germany and participated in festivals around the world in 
order to spread his 
work with this instrument.

His visit will include the following events:

Thursday, May 13, 2010 (5-7pm) 
Traditional Brazilian Rhythms and Guitar Techniques 
Lecture and Demonstration 
(Schoenberg Music Building 1818)

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 (9-10:50am) 
Composing and Arranging in a "Latin American" Style 
Lecture and Demonstration 
(Schoenberg Music Building 1439)

Thursday, May 20, 2010 (9-9:50am) 
Technique and Performance in the Brazilian Choro Idiom 
Lecture and Demonstration 
(Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Music Building 1200)

Thursday, May 20, 2010 (8pm) 
Latin American Concert: Music from Brazil, Argentina, and Peru 
CONCERT 
(Schoenberg Hall Organ Studio)

Mr. Borges’ visit is being sponsored by both the Brazilian Ministry of 
Culture and the Brazilian  Ministry of Foreign Relations.