Brazilian Culture and Events in the Big Apple On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 (10PM), Brazilian jazz pianist, arranger, vocalist and songwriter Eliane Elias, together with bass player (and husband) Marc Johnson, guitarist Rubens de La Corte, and drummer Rafael Barata, perform a program of classic Bossa Nova and American songs (sung in English and Portuguese) at the legendary Carnegie Hall.
While thousands of Brazilians celebrated the selection of Rio de Janeiro as the city to host the 2016 Olympic Games, many in Chicago, Illinois, were relieved to lose the Olympic bid.
Salve Geral (2009), the new film directed by Sergio Rezende (Zuzu Angel, Lamarca), will represent Brazil at the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony in early 2010. Salve Geral recounts the events knows as Brazil’s “September 11″, when the local organized crime, an organization called PCC, promoted a highly violent strike against… Read More →
BrazilNYC has a new design! # Oh, I am really happy with the new design now.:-)) # We’ll be meeting with Ernesto Neto tomorrow afternoon. Hiew new work is displayed at the Park Avenue Armory gallery in NYC. # BrazilNYC will be interviewing artist Ernesto Neto tomorrow morning. His new… Read More →
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