Brazil has a reputation for its music. Just mentioning the country’s name can evoke images of samba bands and glittering dancers at Carnaval, or the swaying beat of "The Girl From Ipanema." But Brazil ...

Forro in the Dark is a band that brings not just the heat of Brazil to crowded, pulsing nightclubs — it brings the heart. A group of five Brazilians and one American put their rhythmic spin on forro, ...

Gilberto Gil, one of the all-time greatest Brazilian musicians, is coming to LA Tuesday, October 23rd, for an all-forró show. Forró is country party music from northeastern Brazil in the state of ...

Brazilian group Forró In The Dark kicks off MoMA Music: BRAZIL, a month of musical performances in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden, on July 2. MoMA Music: Brazil is part of the MoMA Thursday Nights program, ...

Forro in the Dark gets its name from the Forro, a type of dance and music that's been popular in northeastern Brazil for more than 100 years. The style's traditional incarnation involves a three-piece ...

For a variety of reasons, Latin American proponents of music from the native lands often pretend that race and class aren’t relevant when it comes to music. But listen to the rhythms and the lyrics of ...

Forro in the Dark has brightened New York's downtown arts scene with its version of a Brazilian folkloric music largely unknown, even by many in Brazil. Mauro Refosco, the group's founder and ...

It’s 7pm but still sunny. On the plaza by the water, lots of couples are dancing; intricate steps and twirls and turns and hip swivels and joy and bodies in sync, as rhythmical accordion music plays ...

Forro in the Dark is a band that brings not just the heat of Brazil to crowded, pulsing nightclubs — it brings the heart. A group of five Brazilians and one American put their rhythmic spin on forro, ...