NEW YORK (AP) – The World Cup is over but the Brazilian party will go on—in New York City. Over nine days beginning July 18, nearly 20 acts representing a cross section of Brazilian popular music will ...

This year's Brazilian Festival of Worcester celebrates the state of Minas Gerais, known for its legendary gold, rural life, ...

Brazilian-American musician Beto Gonzalez was too young to understand the country around him when his family returned to Brazil in the 1970s. It was only as he grew older, after coming back to the ...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the cool beat of bossa nova. What could that possibly have to do with the D.C. area? Well, it turns out that the album “Jazz Samba,” which introduced to the world ...

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 ...

Aug. 10—Have you been experiencing Samba no pé (Samba of the foot) lately? Craving some pão de queijo but haven't been able to find a place that serves it? Or have you simply been itching to learn a ...

Saturdays and samba? Just tell us when and where! All summer long, and even a little bit into fall, Turma do Samba is taking over our fifth-floor rooftop at Time Out Market, bringing the sounds of ...

In Brazil, D.C.’s own go-go music is meeting the beats of samba and District landmarks that are being brought to life on the wall of a building. It’s part of a cultural exchange between D.C. and the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Anitta has become a pop music sensation in her native Brazil and abroad, but Monday she will have her first shot to prove herself on the country's biggest stage: the Sambadrome.

Most people who follow music have at least heard of tropicalia, the genre-blending Brazilian pop style that enjoyed a new surge of popularity in the States and Europe upon its 30th anniversary, in ...

The Brazilian singer is being honored as Latin Grammys Person of the Year Nov. 13, 2012— -- When imagined by American critics, the most frequent cliché used about the legendary 70-year-old singer ...

At Austin Samba School, students are dressed in American-flag cowboy outfits and dancing to a samba rhythm. And class has just begun. The dance school combines the study of Brazilian samba with Texas ...