MARLBORO-Choro Camp New England will present Brazilian choro and samba music Saturday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at The Campus at Marlboro Music, 2582 South Rd.
Musicians will include the band Água de Moringa and singer Mariana Baltar, both based in Rio de Janeiro and performing in the U.S. for the first time, as well as three U.S.-based artists: clarinetist Anat Cohen; Vitor Gonçalves, who plays piano and accordion; and Skye Soto Steele, a violinist who also plays rabeca, a bowed Brazilian instrument.
The event is a faculty concert topping off a week-long workshop in choro, a genre that emerged over several decades as musicians fused Afro-Brazilian and European traditions, organizers said in a news release. “A similar process took place 5,000 miles to the north,” the release says, and gradually became jazz.
“It’s infectious, irresistible music,” said Andrew Lawrence, camp founder and director, in the news release.
Água de Moringa has been performing traditional choro for more than 35 years, with instruments including six- and seven-string guitars as well as cavaquinho, a type of guitar with four steel strings; pandeiro, which is similar to a tambourine; and bandolim, a type of Brazilian mandolin. Baltar performs frequently with the group, the release said.
Although Cohen is primarily known as a jazz musician, “she has a deep and abiding love for both choro and Brazil, where she lives for part of the year,” the release said, adding that Cohen frequently collaborates with Gonçalves, a Rio de Janeiro native now based in New York City.
This is the first year that Choro Camp New England will be held at The Campus at Marlboro Music. “We’re thrilled to be here this year and hope to make southern Vermont our new home,” Lawrence said.
Tickets are $25 in advance at chorocamp.com/concert or $30 at the door.
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