Mulêketú and Palpitações
This evening will be dominated by Samba Reggae! The groups Mulêketú (Paris/Marseille) and Palpitações (Berlin) are the main acts, in addition to that there will be Locomotmiva do Frevo from Berlin with a dancing program and Barulheiros from North Rhine-Westphalia.
Announcements: Markus "Marquinho" Nichelmann
Mulêketú
direction: Sean Tahiri
Mulêketú’s style reflects influences of the legendary Blocos from Bahia such as Olodum, Ilê Aiyê and artists such as Carlinhos Brown while also mirroring influences from French chansons, salsa, reggae and Celtic music.
Mulêketú plays full of energy and sensitivity: a choreographed rhythmic performance which will be hard to match!
http://www.muleketu.com
www.myspace.com/muleketu
Palpitações
direction: Volker Conrath
Percussion, vocals, sax, guitar, bass and dance, mixed up to Samba-Reggae-Funk-Brasil.
Palpitações is portuguese and means palpitation of heart or convulsions. This describes the music of this group where the hearts of the audience begin to beat in the rhythm of the drums, they are twitching and finally start to dance.
Mariana Viana – vocals
Volker Conrath – percussion/direction
Paul Merle – percussion
Mathias Loop – percussion/backing vocals
Marco Pompe – percussion
Philip Wahlstab – percussion
Christian Rau – percussion
Hartmut Preyer – guitar/bass
George Pfister – sax/percussion
This band belongs to the family of Bloco Explosão who participates each year in the famous Berlin Carneval of Cultures.
http://www.myspace.com/blocoexplosao
http://www.myspace.com/volkerconrath
http://www.myspace.com/palpitacoes
Locomotiva do Frevo
direction: Carlos da Silva (Berlin/Recife, Pernambuco)
Everyone knows Samba but there are much more musical styles in Brazil. In the Brazilian federal state Pernambuco exist numerous traditional dances and rhythms which are affected by African, European and Indian influences. Examples are Frevo, Maracatu, Coco, Ciranda, Caboclinho, afro brazilian dance, Samba and Forró.
The dancing group Locomotiva do Frevo presents a selection of this dances, dressed with wonderful costumes.
http://www.locomotiva-do-frevo.de/
Barulheiros
A grooving mixture of Samba, Funk and HipHop with seven drummers from Witten (North Rhine-Westphalia), aged 15 to 19 years, playing with Batucada instruments and classical drumset.
http://www.barulheiros.de/
