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28.-31.7.2016 isto é MEGASAMBA - aqui só tem lugar para ALEGRIA! Samba in Sesimbra - grab your drum and off you go for some sun, Portugal's Samba family invites you to their annual highlight by the Ocean! 3 days of high-end Samba!

22.-24.7.2016: An extraordinary festival with fantastic programm all about Rio Samba, Samba Reggae and Maracatú, Brazilialn art & culture, top concerts and special performances - 3 days Repercussion in Monléon-Magnoac..

18.6.2016 Mistura Maneira present their Carnival in Monte Porzio Catone - Italy's Rio carnival! Go carioca and join to play and party with the sambistas of Rome's Samba school! Samba workshop with Dario Mattia!

1.-3.7.2016 Rio sambistas, dancers and helpers - Hamburg's Samba school invites you all to happy Samba playing at the Stamp Festival! Great athmosphere guaranteed and - knowing the Unidos - no lack of creative ideas, great sound and beer!

28.5.2016 Come and find out what the London School of Samba will be wearing for the Notting Hill Carnival this year! Costume launch at the Guanabara Club this Saturday! Embaixo do arco iris - somewhere under the rainbow!

17.-19.6.2016 The 4th edition of the Dragon Samba Meeting in Cracow! Join us for a fantastic weekend with friends, hanging out playing Samba, train new techniques and do workshops. Special Kalango Deal for festival participants!

2.-5.6.2016 Have you ever been to Nitra? Come see this small town full of crazy Samba vibes only a short ride from Bratislava! A unique Samba and percussion festival where international bands celebrate rhythm, good energy and Brazilian beats!

8.-10.7.2016 Kalango Brazilian Percussion at the Samba Festival in Coburg - a big tent full of Samba percussion, accessories and everything a sambista's heart desires is awaiting you! Part of our team - Juninho Quebradera! Como visit!

13.-16.5.2016 4 days music from all over the world, dance, street festival and the grand and colourful parade with loads of Samba, Samba Reggae, Maracatu, but also many other international music styles parading through Berlin for 9 hours!

June 11./12. 2016: sambista get-together, Kalango with festival booth, beautiful outdoor festival and loads of workshops for all levels: Samba de enredo, Samba Reggae, Maracatu, dance, Afro Samba, Pagode, Timbal Special, Samba Funk..

19.-22.5.2016 The 4. Raban Festival in Oborniki - Poland! A huge choice of Rio Samba pro-workshops with top mestres, section-action, pagodes, dance, forró - sambista programm at its best! Check out the details!

1./2./3. April: Springbreak on a beautiful Mediterranean island! Come visit a 3-day Samba festival in Mallorca with bateria workshops for Rio Samba and Samba Reggae blocos, dance, pagode, sessions, party - a fantastic opener for 2016 festival season!

The countdown to carnival and the very last rehearsals before the Samba schools present their big showdown on sambodromo's catwalk! Now the carnival may begin - Chris has sent us some last-minute footage bevor playing with Tijuca himself!

Stuck in a snow storm? Can´t travel to Brazil this year? Cheer up - we've got the solution for you! Chris Quade Coute is over in Rio to play with Tijuca and recording carnival video live logs for us! Come join us and see what's going on in Rio's Samba scene!

More swing and fun for your bateria: intensive professional Samba training for all levels with Chris Quade Couto and Serrinha Raiz - fun, efficient workshops with powerful instruction for all sections. Learn all about the tricks and techniques of Rio style Samba! Bring your bateria to a whole new level!

2016 - we can already feel the energy of carnival, in our minds we're festival-hopping from one Samba event to another. Write us your event - Kalango publishes a blog article for you! Invite Samba friends from all over Europe - Samba is family!

Finally online - our great music vids we made in Artcelsior's factory in Rio! We had a great session with the lovely guys from Sambaí who kindly played a whole load of Samba instruments for our recordings!

A short trip to Ivson's instrument manufactory in Rio leaves us with itchy feet. The brand IVSOM is internationally known, German TV shows where the instruments come from and who actually invents and builds them!

For 2016 Dudu Tucci has prepared a large and exciting programme for sambistas of all styles! The year starts with a trip to Salvador for percussionists and also stays colourful in the PAC Percussion Art Center in Berlin!

Hand-welded agogo with 4 bells by Kalango!
Tuned to pretty intervals, each one hand crafted, rustical look - unique instruments with strong sound!

Nov/Dec: Great autumn- / winter workshops with Dudu Tucci!:
2.-4.Oktober: Ritual drumming: Candomblé and Umbanda; 6.-8. November: Pandeiro: Intensiv course with the little allrounder; 2.-6. Dezember: Bateria total! Sambafieber: technique, new grooves, solo parts

From the 23.-29.8.2015, the Austrian Percussion Camp will take place right on the shore of beatiful Ossiacher lake in Carinthia, Austria. Allrounder & ethno percussion for all ages and levels! From the 25th on the Teacher Days guarantee top class courses for all percussion freaks!

14.-16.8.2015 Dani Brazila (Days of Brazil) - Samba carnival and festival in Novi Sad, Serbia! Come and join in for advanced Samba workshops with wellknown sambistas and mestres, party with us and spend a fantastic time with the Samba family of Serbia!

SAMBA REGGAE IN BARCELONA - SPAIN! 25.-26.7.2015 Alex Rosa (Ilê Ayê) and Barcelona´s Afro Samba community invites you to their beautiful city and international percussion, dance and Brazilian culture festival!: Afro Brasil, Samba Reggae, Maracatu, Brazilian beats - 11 workshops, 5 mestres, concerts, parade, parties..

23.-26-7-2015 The Mega-Samba event in Portugal! What could be more beautiful than playing Samba on a beach in the sun with friends? Right - also having a caipirinha in your hand! Great programm & workshops - Sesimbra invites you to Samba, beach, sun, seaside, party!

10.-12.7.2015 This year we have quite some special surprises for you in our luggage: new Samba percussion stuff fresh from Brazil, extra exhibition area and a larger booth full of Samba drums and Brazilian instruments and accessories! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Nous imprimons le logo de votre groupe en haute qualité sur des peaux IZZO P3, individuel et selon vos idées graphiques. Sur des peaux de tamborim en 6" ou des peaux de surdo en 24"- une impression brillante pour toutes les tailles, ne pas d'usure grâce aux techniques les plus modernes. Pour un look de bateria comme à Rio !

Sambatrend & News from Rio for caixa players! Brandnew invention by IVSOM - a caixa with 6 strings on the batter head and 6 more on the inside of the resonance head - extra dry and massive sound for Rio style Samba!

Another new Samba highlight: 29.-31.5.2015 Sorrir por favor! invite the European Samba scene to their Dragon Samba Meeting in Kraków, Poland. Spend a fantastic weekend with Samba friends in Krakóv, play, party, train your skills in Workshops and simply enjoy being part of the European Samba family!

5.-7.6.2015 Scandinavian Samba! G.R.E.S. Unidos de Oslo from Norway invite all Samba friends to their carnival to play Samba and celebrate solidarity and diversisty, and - to give Oslo its carnival back! Come and join for a whole weekend of music, Samba, dance, shows and the big street parade!

We went to visit the Frankfurt Music Exhibition and had a look at what´s new in the world of Brazil percussion. Old and new friends and business partners, a large fair hall full of drums & percussion instruments - and an award for Kalango!

With Chris Quade Couto and Serrinha Raiz - you want intensive, fun and efficient training for your bateria and useful professional instruction for all sections? Learn all about the tricks and techniques of Rio style Samba! Chris and Serrinha will help you to to train all your Samba skills and bring your bateria to a whole new level. Workshops for any level - few dates left!

Du 8 au 10 mai, Villeneuve vibre au son du Brésil !
Bahia Steel et Tempo Soleil organisent les 8-9-10 mai 2015 la quatrième édition du festival Villeneuve-Rio, le Brésil en Ardèche.