On April 25, EEDS hosted a well-attended dance workshop for the Northwestern University Luso-Brazilian Association (NULBA), continuing a partnership with them that began last year when the EEDS bateria performed with NULBA at Northwestern’s Global Village.
This year, legendary samba dancer Dill Costa led an EEDS samba workshop during Northwestern’s “Night of Brazil,” hosted by Professor Ana Williams. Dill taught Brazilian dance and allowed participants to wear authentic Brazilian carnival costumes. A great time was had by all!
Many thanks to NULBA and Olga Korobova for helping to organize the workshop!
the director of Samba New York! will be coming to the Chicago area April 18th-21st!
Philip Galinsky will be giving a workshop in Evanston! special thanks to LP and Philip himself.
Saturday April 20th 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm @ 1490 w. chicago ave, evanston, il
$20
Rio Style Samba Fundamentals
room 2 in the lower level of Nichols Hall
contact reedflygt@gmail.com to reserve your spot. he is also available for private lessons.
here is his bio:
Philip Galinsky is a percussionist and ethnomusicologist specializing in Brazilian music. He founded Samba New York! in 2003 and is the group’s Director and principal percussionist.
Conducting music research in Brazil since 1993, he has published widely in the field of ethnomusicology, including pioneering work on the pagode samba and mangue beatmovements. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, where his doctoral dissertation,Maracatu Atômico, was selected for publication in Routledge’s Outstanding Dissertations series. Dr. Galinsky has taught ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, UC Davis, and Hampshire College, also founding and directing samba percussion ensembles at each of these schools.
As a percussionist, Dr. Galinsky has studied with various master Brazilian drummers, including Jorge Alabê, Jonas de Oliveira (Mestre Jonas), Odilon Costa (Mestre Odilon), Aílton Nunes (Mestre Aílton), and Miguel do Repinique. He has performed in the Rio Carnaval since 1999 with some of the world’s most renowned samba schools, including Mocidade, Salgueiro, and Imperatriz — a rare honor for a non-Brazilian. Since 2010, he has been a member of the top-scoring Bateria of the Acadêmicos do Cubango Samba School in Rio, led by Mestre Jonas.
Dr. Galinsky has been lauded as one of the foremost educators of Brazilian percussion in the United States. Since 1994, he has taught hundreds of samba students, including the leaders of such groups as Phillybloco, Harlem Samba, Mais Um, and Batala NYC. He has given workshops or held residencies at such institutions as NYU, City University of New York Graduate Center, Stony Brook University, Drummers Collective, Frederick Douglass Academy, the University of Southern Maine, and the University of Michigan. He has been on the faculty of the California Brazil Camp in Cazadero, California since 2009 and regularly teaches percussion courses through Samba New York!
A leading authority in the US on Brazilian music, he is available as an educator and specialist in Brazilian percussion for workshops, lecture-demonstrations, private instruction, and performances.
The mestre de bateria of a world-famous samba school will be holding a masterclass in Chicago at the Quilombo Cultural Center in Logan Square (1757 N. Kimball) this Saturday, April 6th, from 1-3 pm!!!!!
from facebook: In collaboration with California Brazil Camp and Contemporânea, Unidos do Quilombo and the Quilombo Cultural Center is proud to announce an exciting samba percussion workshop with the mestre (director) of Rio de Janeiro’s Mangueira Samba School.
This marks the first time that a Mestre De Bateria of a LIESA Brazilian samba school in the Grupo Especial will give a workshop in Chicago.
When: Saturday, April 6, 2013
Where: Quilombo Cultural Center
1757 N Kimball Avenue in Chicago
Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Cost: $20 before April 1 (payment can be dropped off at Quilombo Cultural Center during UdQ class time)
$25 after April 1
NOTE: Ailton will also be available for private individual lessons. Please no absolute beginners. Limited instruments available but students are encouraged to bring their own.
To register or inquire about pricing for private lessons, please contact: manriquese@gmail.com
About Ailton:
Mestre Ailton took over Mangueira’s bateria in 2011, that same year receiving the coveted Estandarte de Ouro for best bateria performance at Rio’s Carnaval.
Ailton also participates in the group Dose Certa and Ensaio de Escola de Samba de Leandro Lehart.
Our Carnaval event was a success, thanks to everyone who helped out, volunteered and performed! Now that the event has passed, we wanted to share some photos with you! Thanks to Erin Fusco, PR and Marketing Director of the Music Institute of Chicago, for these great photos.
The day has almost arrived – tomorrow is Carnaval time! We at Evanston Escola de Samba are so excited to share Brazilian music and dance with you! As a preview, we shared some of our music with Vince Gerasole and the CBS-2 Morning News Team today.
Vince Gerasole Live-Tweeted the event, and there were lots of great videos taken by the CBS 2 team.
There are only 2 days until our inaugural Carnaval celebration and we have an exciting announcement to share! For all you early risers – EEDS is going to be appearing on the CBS 2 Chicago TV news broadcast between 4:30 – 7 AM on Friday, February 15th as the featured musical interlude. Don’t forget to set your DVR! Hopefully, we will have a video in the near future for those who are not able to catch the show.
Only 3 days until Carnaval! Today we are very excited to introduce a great percussion group that will be performing with EEDS at our Carnaval celebration – Oloboom. Here’s how Oloboom describes themselves and their mission:
Oloboom (founded in 2011) is a percussion class at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago, IL, under the leadership of Reed Flygt. We rehearse everyday and do our best to have fun making music in a supportive atmosphere. Besides Samba, the class also focuses on music from Ghana, West-Africa. In addition to having fun, we also increase our confidence and proficiency in music through a rigorous traditional curriculum involving weekly playing tests. We are very excited to perform at our first ever Carnaval Event.
Only 5 days left to Carnaval! Are you excited yet? For the first time ever we are offering a raffle at our event, where you could win any of the awesome prizes listed below. It is only $2 per ticket, or 3 tickets for $5.
You could win:
A Free private dance lesson with Blaze the Floor
A Free private or group percussion class with Reed
Oloboom (founded in 2011) is a percussion class at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago, IL, under the leadership of Reed Flygt. We rehearse everyday and do our best to have fun making music in a supportive atmosphere. Besides Samba, the class also focuses on music from Ghana, West-Africa. In addition to having fun, we also increase our confidence and proficiency in music through a rigorous traditional curriculum involving weekly playing tests. We are very excited to perform at our first ever Carnaval Event.
