Samba Fest’s return to Mortensen Riverfront Plaza on Saturday, May 2, doesn’t just signal a ninth consecutive year of Brazilian music and culture in downtown Hartford: It also marks the beginning of ...

This is what I love about Club Med: Last week, on a trip to Brazil, I struck up a conversation with a Brazilian guy at the bar of the Club Med Rio das Pedras, a two-hour drive south of Rio de Janeiro.

If you think Brazilian music simply reaches from samba to bossa nova, from feathered and sequined dancers to the surging excitement of Carnaval, you should have been at the Ford Amphitheatre on ...

Julia Lira, 7, dances during a rehearsal by the Viradouro samba school in Rio de Janeiro. AP RIO DE JANEIRO — She is the Shirley Temple of samba, a 7-year-old named to a coveted Carnival role normally ...

NEW HAVEN >> Thelma Ladeira knew after her first dance class in Brazil at 5 years old that this was what she “was going to do for the rest of my life.” That was more than 30 years ago and Ladeira, now ...

Queensland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. All eyes are on Brazil and its vibrant culture, with the FIFA World Cup now into its third week and Rio de ...

He seduced her playing percussion," Moraes recounts with a smile. With the advent of forró, a northeastern Brazilian dance style that became big all over southeastern Brazil's big cities in the 1990s, ...