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25-27.10.2019 The Capoeirathon with 100 jogos in 2 days - a real challenge for body and soul. Win a 100€ Kalango voucher at the event with Mestre Cigano from GCB Alemanha in Frankfurt. Your passion for Capoeira is all that counts!

Happy Birthday Sambanale! 25.26.5.2019: 10 years of family samba encontro with great workshops for all levels and Brazilian styles far away from the hustle and stress of the cities - almost like holidays! A festival not to be missed.

Build your own caxixi - we have checked out for you how it works and have build some awesome caxixis on a black lava beach. The perfect vacation activity, as a souvenir, a gift for your capoeira friends or just for productive relaxation.

Your berimbau could use a bit of glam and originality? Matti has checked out for you how it works, what you need and he has documented everything. Check out how to pimp your berimbau with your own designs, get inspiration and enjoy some great sound recommendations!

2.-5.2.2016 capoeiristas - fancy a 4-day capoeira festival in Itapuá / Salvador da Bahia with capoeira Angola, samba de roda, percussion, party! Check out the event!

Mestre Cigano has been guiding us for many years with professional advice for the Kalango assortment of Capoeira instruments. We had a chat with him about the passion for his work, Capoeira development and personal fascination about this culture.

In Mestre Negãos small workshop he creates amazing, high quality and great-sounding Capoeira instruments. Making them is like art. Berimbaus casados, Baterias casamento and mindblowingly beautiful atabaques...

12./13.8.2016 in Novi Sad, Serbia: a few years already this small sambista-family encontro für Rio Sambistas und Capoeiristas has been taking place, offering high-quality Samba and lovely culture of the locals including a swim in the Danube!

New times for smartphone- and tablet using sambistas! KALANGO´s brandnew website is going online, enjoy exploring all our new features! E-commerce has strongly developed within the last couple of years, mobile online devices have conquered the world and the users have quickly adapted to all the functions that modern webshops offer. We think that equally for KALANGO the time has come to enter a in a new era.

We have finally managed to find a workshop for beautiful looking and sounding Atabaques:  Tião do Atabaque from Rio de Janeiro manufacters  drums in the traditional manner with sturdy hardwood and beautiful best choice goatskin heads.

We are offering the Atabaques in the 3 traditional sizes: Lê ( 90 cm high, 9″ diameter ), Rumpi ( 100 cm high, 10″ diameter ), and Rum ( 120 cm high, 12″ diameter ). Tension hooks enable it to easily tune the drums as high as you prefer. An additional goody is the Rumpi with a tradional rope tuning system as alternative.

Every Atabaque comes with a simple round steel stand.

Enjoy playing and hearing the typical Capoeira rhythmes, the ritual Candomblé or Umbanda Toques, or the the wild grooves of the Samba de Roda with these absolutely authentic drums!

For the 9th time in a row we are preparing to pack our beloved little tent, various displays and tables, and above all a handpicked selection of our large assortment and jet to Coburg. We are really looking forward to all the new and well-known samba g