Name: Latin Music Sundays feat. Forró do Cana (co-presented by the Eastside Arts Festival)
Start: 2024-07-28T21:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-07:00
Location: 1 Alexander Street, Underground, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6A 1B2

$Latin Music Sundays feat. Forr\u00f3 do Cana (co-presented by the Eastside Arts Festival)$

Vancouver’s premier Brazilian Forro band, Forró do Cana, was founded in 2018 as a passion project, dedicated to the dissemination of the music of Northeastern Brasil. The music of Forró do Cana blends the sounds of the violin (and sometimes the Brazilian fiddle aka. Rabeca) and accordion played by Serena Eades and Steve Charles respectively, with the Brazilian roots of Mario Silva’s 7 string acoustic guitar and Sara Magal’s percussion and Portuguese vocals.
For those not familiar with Forró, this is a partner dance with a variety of rhythms and accompanying steps from very intricate and showy to subtle and sensual. A whole family of related rhythms are referred to under the umbrella term Forró: Baião, Forró, Xaxado, Xote and Arrasta pé. Arrasta pé (“drag your foot“) received its name due to the peculiar dancing movement: the soles of the feet drag over the floor with each dance step.