The father of the Bossa Nova

Joao Gilberto will start the tour, in celebration of the 80 birthday, "80 anos - Uma Vida Bossa Nova”. The man that created the better and famous musics played by all musicians in Brazil and in the World. 

The back in the stage was budgeted at R$ 8 million, and the repertoire of the tour, have already classic sung by João Gilberto and new songs yet to be defined by him. As already announced, the shows will have guest appearances by national and international artists, including Eric Clapton and Jon Hendricks.

The concerts will be in 5 capitals, in Rio de Janeiro, the presentation will be in the Municipal Theather, and the tickets are sold by ingresso.com.br.

The days:

- 28/10: Salvador, Castro Alves Theather;
- 05/11: São Paulo, Via Funchal;
- 15/11: Rio de Janeiro, Municipal Theather;
- 19/11: Brasília, Convention meeting Ulysses Guimarães;
- 25/11: Porto Alegre, Sesi Theather.

Music to dance together

Forró is the union of various musical rhythms of the Brazilian Northeast, such as the "baião", the "quadrilha" (gang), the "xaxado", which has Dutch influences and "xote", who came from Portugal, are played traditionally by trios, consisting of an accordion player (eight bass), a percussionist and a triangle player.

Luiz Gonzaga, the King of Forró

A regional music, that was introduced in the big cities by the musics of Luiz Gonzaga, the "King of Forró", his sucess opened the doors for other great musicians of the interior of Brazil. Forró is a Brazilian dance that looks like the latin salsa so it is a dance music that everybody can pratice.

Seu Jorge, the big name of the brazilian music

If you don´t know him, you have to listen. Samba, soul, funk, any music played from him is a good surprise. Borned in Rio de Janeiro, Seu Jorge is today the biggest musician of Brazil. Difficult is to find a ticket for his concert. This weekend he will play in the Oi Futuro in Ipanema/Copacabana, but of course the tickets are sold out.

Oi Futuro is a little theater that is specialist in music, there you can find new musicians, like the "Destemidos Wallace" (25/01), or in this case, Seu Jorge e Almaz (04/02). Your discography started with Farofa Carioca, and been a sucess just after that. And after, been the start to enriched our brazilian music.

Your new work is the recreation of one of the legend of the brazilian music, Tim Maia, musician from the 80's. And how I was telling you, he is the guy!! Take a look.....