Hi there!
I will give you a little preview of the tentative cover shots for the up-coming Musa do Forro CD, which should be available before the end of this month.
Enjoy...there will be more posted later.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Hi there!
Banda Musa do Forro has been a dream of my wife Thieny's for many, many years, since she was a child really.
She grew up loving music but really began to get involved in her teens when she embraced a style called Axe (pronounced a-shay), originating in Salvador. Her heroine was Scheila Carvalho, a lead dancer with a group in Salvador called EU Chan.
Thieny began dancing professionally at 17 for some smaller bands in her area of Fortaleza.
When we met, Thieny was 21 and had a young son named Israel.
It would be 4 years until we began the oddysy that has become Musa do Forro (literally Beauty of Forro).
Over the past 8 months leading up to this Blog, we has assembled a number of band groups, recorded 3 CDs and played at several large clubs in the Fortaleza area.
We, Thieny and I, still feel we have been held back by the fact that in the beginning we have hired only "freelance" musicians that can leave at the drop of a hat, for literally no reason.
Every time we have to change a major component of the band such as a drummer, bass, guitar or keyboard player, we lose time because of the re-training we have to go through.
Needless to say, we have perservered and, with the current band...drummer, bass guitar, guitar, keyboard, percussion, accordion and horn section plus 3 singers...Thieny and two male vocalists, we are about to start a run at a barraca (ba-hack-a) in a beach area named Priaha do Futuro called Master Beach.
Our first tentative date there is April 10th.
We begin rehearsals there a month beforehand, March 10th.
We have come a long way from the bands first public performance at a big local club in Iracema called Armazen.
More later...
Banda Musa do Forro has been a dream of my wife Thieny's for many, many years, since she was a child really.
She grew up loving music but really began to get involved in her teens when she embraced a style called Axe (pronounced a-shay), originating in Salvador. Her heroine was Scheila Carvalho, a lead dancer with a group in Salvador called EU Chan.
Thieny began dancing professionally at 17 for some smaller bands in her area of Fortaleza.
When we met, Thieny was 21 and had a young son named Israel.
It would be 4 years until we began the oddysy that has become Musa do Forro (literally Beauty of Forro).
Over the past 8 months leading up to this Blog, we has assembled a number of band groups, recorded 3 CDs and played at several large clubs in the Fortaleza area.
We, Thieny and I, still feel we have been held back by the fact that in the beginning we have hired only "freelance" musicians that can leave at the drop of a hat, for literally no reason.
Every time we have to change a major component of the band such as a drummer, bass, guitar or keyboard player, we lose time because of the re-training we have to go through.
Needless to say, we have perservered and, with the current band...drummer, bass guitar, guitar, keyboard, percussion, accordion and horn section plus 3 singers...Thieny and two male vocalists, we are about to start a run at a barraca (ba-hack-a) in a beach area named Priaha do Futuro called Master Beach.
Our first tentative date there is April 10th.
We begin rehearsals there a month beforehand, March 10th.
We have come a long way from the bands first public performance at a big local club in Iracema called Armazen.
More later...
The History
Hi there!
This is an English language Blog for the Banda Musa do Forro, based in Fortaleza, Brazil.
This is an English language Blog for the Banda Musa do Forro, based in Fortaleza, Brazil.
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