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A celebration of Brazilian rhythms comes to Trinity

By Mia Vines Booth  Thursday Apr 14, 2022

Bristol Encontro are bringing their much-awaited Tambor festival to Trinity.

Encontro – to meet, find or discover in Portuguese – brings the Brazilian festivals of today, from São João to Carnival, to the city in a celebration of Afro-Brazilian culture through music and dance.

Tambor festival will highlight the Afro-Brazilian community’s history and evolution when music and dance were utilised by the first enslaved peoples of Brazil’s colonial era as a form of expression and dissent.

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Officially meaning ‘drum’ in Portuguese, Tambor represents something more meaningful to Afro-Brazilians, who utilised the rhythmic element of worship through drumming to create expressive and dynamic performances that now grace Brazil’s infamous carnivals.

The dynamic Samba-Reggae drumming and dance performance Ilu Axé performing at Tambor last year – photo: Trinity Center

This year’s Tambor is Bristol Encontro’s first event since 2019 when the pandemic forced them to postpone the festival. Tambor will provide a feast of live performances and workshops, including samba, maracatu, Afoxé, reggae-samba, capoeira music and much more.

There’s no better place to host this year’s Tambor than the Trinity Centre, which has hosted samba drumming and dance workshops at its venue for years and will turn its garden into a vibrant space for carnival-goers, complete with mouth-watering Latin American food stalls.

Performances and workshops will be taking place across the weekend, at venues including the Exchange and the Black Swan, where Tambor held its last festival in 2019. The Exchange will also be hosting the Tambor after party.

Expect performances from Ilu Axé, Afon Sistema, Olá Samba, Barracwda, BLOCO B, The African Sambistas and more.

Tambor takes place on Saturday, April 16 from 2pm to 11pm.

Main photo: Bristol Encontro / Paul Lippiatt

Read more: St Paul’s Carnival will not be taking place in 2022

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