Promotes multicultural dissemination between both countries, Mexico and Brazil, through musical dissemination. Expressing our art through samba school bateria originating in Rio De Janeiro with young Mexicans, incorporating our roots and Mexican culture, taking the concept of Day of the Dead traditions as a way of showing our culture, carrying with great respect this tradition of our ancestors that makes us completely unique, represents and identifies us worldwide.

Musically, Groove e Rimshot is a project directed and focused on the reorganization of the batucada concept in our country, taking the bases of a samba school drummer that is currently represented in the largest carnival in the world, in RdJ e SP.

Our objective is to influence these Mexico based musical groups (batucadas) in our country with the good technique and rhythmic knowledge that have evolved over the years in Brazil. The primary task of the project is to make known all these musical transformations that continue to emerge so that in turn that they can develop rhythmically and musically to avoid that musical stagnation that has persisted in our country over the years.

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/LZw3nCwNQDma6QBR/

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/KrVZQMnHYLdzckeB/

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/uMXQaBKB7t4xQgVD/

Diego de Oliveira was Born and raised in Nilópolis. Since he was very young, Diego has lived in the world of samba. He has been a Mestre sala, was part of the Kids bateria and is currently a bateria director at the Beija-Flor samba school in Nilópolis. In the late 90s and early 2000s, he paraded as a passista. In 2003, it was his first year as Mestre sala, he won a Estandarte de Ouro "revelation of carnival". In 2011, he joined the bateria of Beija-Flor, popularly known as "bateria soberana". The following year he began playing the REPIQUE MOR where he gained great prominence inside and outside of Brazil.

In 2017, Diego wrote his first samba enredo. Unfortunately, he came second. But in 2018, he won the samba-enredo competition and Beija Flor ended up winning that year.

In 2019, he won his second title in the samba-enredo competition. This year, Beija-Flor held the samba-enredo contest for the 2023 carnival and, once again, Diego and his partnership were the champions. In the year of (2021), he became a bateria director at Beija-Flor de Nilópolis.

Currently, Diego has a WORKSHOP project called WORKSHOP TOQUE DE BAMBA. He takes this project to different countries outside of Brazil, the countries and states were: Spain, Turkey, Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, China, Argentina, Gabon, Portugal, France, Germany, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Brasília etc. Its main objective is to show the culture of our country and make people feel closer to brazilian culture.

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/diegooliveirard?igsh=OW0yYmZhbnB0bzAw&utm_source=qr

Youtube
https://youtube.com/@diegooliveira2311?si=E0ZZnXHR-lJxVSb8

Chicago area listeners!
Check out Silvia’s next live show!
https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2024/01-10-2024-wmw-silvia-manrique-with-marcel-bonfim/

Robert Lopez

Bio:
Robert Lopez is a percussionist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His background in various types of music such as folkloric traditions of Brazil, Ghana and Cuba, alongside contemporary chamber music and free improvisation, allow him to maintain a malleable approach to sharing musical ideas. He holds a Bachelors of Music from Cal State University Long Beach and a Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Improvisation from Mills College. Since 2011, he has been an active member of the Bay Area music community working with groups SO AR, the Oakland Active Orchestra, Quattour Elephantis, Grex and Jordan Glenn’s BEAK among others. He has been a dance accompanist at Mills College, UC Berkeley, ODC and Sonoma State. Since 2014 he has maintained a close relationship with master drummer Jorge Alabê. This partnership has led to awards from the Fulbright US Student Program for projects “Cultural Transmission through the Music of Candomblé” (2022) and “Investigating the Language of Candomblé Drumming” (2020), a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (2018) and first-place in the Brazilian category with Grupo Samba Rio in San Francisco’s Carnaval (2018 and 2019). He currently teaches drum set and hand percussion at the San Francisco Community Music Center and the San Francisco Waldorf High School.

Links:
media - @bohbbylolo

San Francisco Community Music Center - https://sfcmc.org/support/donate/

Iuri Passos Master’s Thesis - https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/31383

2020 Fulbright story - https://www.kqed.org/arts/13878162/how-coronavirus-derailed-a-fulbright-fellows-musicological-research-in-brazil

FICA Studio in Oakland - https://www.ficaoakland.com/

Silvia Manrique’s video:
https://youtu.be/A7VVDJYX0gA?si=nmtq5Nh5uQDWiPDs

Robert Lopez and Jorge Alabe

Creative Encounters

Freddie the Skinny pig!

San Francisco Carnaval

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bjuRxPEnvOM

Bio:

Mestres of Acadêmicos do Salgueiro Bateria Furiosa. Guilherme Oliveira and Gustavo Oliveira are local to Salgueiro having been raised on the same street as the quadra, Rua Silva Teles, the brothers have always had strong roots with the school. The love for percussion arose through contact with the instruments at the escola mirim Aprendizes do Salgueiro.

Since then, both have collected experiences in the musical world. Their curriculum is vast, the mestres have played with great artists, such as Ludmilla and Xamã. Their talent and love for the Samba School eventually led them to the role and responsibility of commanding Bateria Furiosa do Salgueiro.

As mestres, they seek to immortalize a legacy. The two toured with the “Furiosa pelo mundo” project, where they took Salgueiro’s musical culture to other countries, passing through Europe and South America. They most recently visited us this past August at California Brazil camp.

Links:

Mestre Guilherme
https://www.instagram.com/guilloliveira/

Mestre Gustavo
https://www.instagram.com/gustavoliveira_91/

Acadêmicos do Salgueiro
https://www.instagram.com/salgueirooriginal/

https://www.facebook.com/salgueirooriginal

Photo by Nelson Malfacini www.instagram.com/nelsonmalfacini/

Gustavo Perez, nicknamed Nômade, is originally from São Paulo, where he originally learned to play samba. He played with many samba schools as a youth. He eventually moved to Rio where he joined the samba scene and built quite a reputation as a killer tamborim player. He is the tamborim director at the current carnaval champion Samba school, Imperatriz Leopoldinense.

He also plays at many many other samba schools and music projects as well as teaches private lessons and runs a bloco in Copacabana.

Links:

Instagram

Bloco Cultural Saideira

Youtube video with Thalita Santos.

Imperatriz Leopoldinense Samba School

Photo by Nelson Malfacini www.instagram.com/nelsonmalfacini/

Nômade and Courtney lining up with Imperatriz Leopoldinense before the parade of champions 2023.

Bio:

Laísa Lima was born into samba, as the daughter of samba legend, Laíla, and samba performer Elaine, and granddaughter of ala director, Jurema. She grew up seeing her family take part in Carnaval, and wanted to be a part of it. It is only natural that she continues this family legacy.

She has been involved in Carnaval since she was eight years old at the school of her heart, Beija-Flor de Nilopolis. At age 11, She paraded for the first time at the Bateria Soberana and became tamborim director at 16.

Laísa is co-director of tamborims at Beija-Flor de Nilópolis and Acadêmicos de Vigário Geral. She has been a mestra with escolas such as Ìmperio de Nova Iguaçu and Acadêmicos de Jacarepaguá. It was recently announced that she is the new Mestra da Bateria at Leão da Nova Iguaçu. In addition to many other roles in carnaval she is also Mestra da Bateria at Academicos do Engenho da Rainha and a member of the sound truck at Botafogo Samba Clube

She has paraded with other escolas as a ritimista, such as Unidos de Vila Isabel, Paraiso do Tuiuti, Porto da Pedra, Academicos do Grande Rio, Em Cima da Hora, Academicos do Sossego (Now Acadêmicos do Niterói) and Unidos da Ponte, Other projects that she is part of, or has been a part of: Percussion Instructor in Nilopolis; Tamborim Instructor in Vigario Geral; Band member of Os Carnavarizados do Samba (project for Youtube); as well as online tamborim lessons.

Links:
Instagram

YouTube