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*Photos of Brazil Trips

Upcoming Events
36th Brazilian Carnaval, February 18th, 2012 at El Parador Restaurant.
You are all invited to come and dance with the best Brazilian Band in Tucson. After a two year hiatus, the band is better than ever with the come back of Orestes Morfin who has just concluded his tour with his band Bitch Magnet through Europe and Asia. This year, we have new songs, and new members added to the band. Carnaval will take place at El Parador Mexican Restaurant on Feb. 18th 2012. Tickets will be $12 at the door without costume and $10 with costumes. You may also buy your tickets for $10 at Antigone Books after February 1st, 2012. 21 and older only!! We hope to see you there!

Tucson Meet Yourself 2010, October 9th at 6pm at the Main Stage
You are welcome to join us at the Main Stage of Tucson Meet Yourself. This year the set up has been changed and the other stages are now considered secondary stages. This Main Stage will have the "Carnaval" music of the World. We will open the night at 6pm. The Main Stage is located between the TCC and the Leo Rich Music Hall. Come and dance with us, we'll see you there!!!!

34th Brazilian Carnaval, February 13th, 2010
You are welcome to join us on the 28th year that the Brazilian Community of Tucson and Sambalanco celebrate Carnaval at El Parador. More details forthcoming.

Brazilian Week, September 7-13, 2009
Come and experience Brazilian Culture in Tucson through our unique venues, during the week of September 7-13. We will have participating restaurants serving Brazilian Food, we will offer a Film Festival, Percussion classes with Mestre Sombra of the winning school of Samba "Mocidade Alegre" 2009. And our Independence Carnaval at El Parador on Sept. 12 at 9:00pm. It will be fantastic night with the marvelous and authentic music of Brazil.


Brazilian Carnaval, February 21, 2009 at 9:00pm
Come and experience the unique sound of Brazil at El Parador on Feb. 21 at 9:00pm. If you come with a costume, the ticket will cost $8.00. If you do not want to use one, then the ticket is $10.00 It will be fantastic night with the marvelous and authentic music of Brazil.


Tucson Meet Yourself, Outubro 11, 2008 at 9:00pm City Hall Stage
Come and dance with the best Brazilian dancing band in Tucson. We will have an incredible extravaganza with the inclusion of a Sam's Brazilian Band, Sambalanco Dancers and Capoeira Malandragem. Meet us at 9:00pm at the City Hall Stage at 9:00pm and come ready to dance!

Past Events Semana Brasileira, Setembro 1-6, 2008 (Brazilian Week, September 1-6,2008) This is a first time celebration of Brazilian, Culture, Arts, Cuisine, Music, Literature and History, through exhibitions, workshops, and Conferences within the City limits of Tucson, The University of Arizona and Pima Community College. For more information please check the following site: www.brazilianweek.net

Dim Sum and Then Some (A Foreign Affair)

Sambalanço will accompany The Reveille Chorus on April, 25th, 26th and 27th at the Berger Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $10 Students, $15 in advanced, $15 Seniors and $20 Door. The Berger Performing Arts Center is located at 1200 W. Speedway Blvd.

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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT IS NEW WITH THE BAND: JOIN US ON FEBRUARY 18TH, 2012 AT EL PARADOR !!! 



Carnaval Chegou!! February 18, 2012 at El Parador. Come and dance with the best Brazilian Dance Band in Tucson!!





Carnaval Chegou!! February 13, 2010 at El Parador. Come and dance with the best Brazilian Dance Band in Tucson!!







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Sambalanço was formed in the year 2001, when a group of friends from the Hydrology Department of the University of Arizona got together to play on the weekends.

The band was originally formed by Gustavo Goncalves, Orestes Morfin, David Gochis, Jesse Dickinson, Charles Downman and Carolina Ibáñez-Murphy.

The love for Brazilian music is what got all these members together. Gustavo, a native of Pelotas, Brazil, was the founder and Director of the band until he moved to Washington D.C. in 2005.

Since 2001, Sambalanço has played for numerous venues in the city of Tucson, representing Brazil. The group has been fortunate enough to have a representation of Brazil in the group. In addition to Gustavo, Renata Souza, Leo Lopes and Rosangela Sverskoski have been invaluable members that gave the band the correct and true sound of Brazil in the music.

Sambalanço continues to grow and to learn each passing year more about Brazilian Culture and Music. Within the past two years, several members of the band have travelled to Brazil to take lessons with many Brazilian artists.

In the year 2006 they took lessons with Ari Colares in Sao Paulo and with Zé Ricardo of Balé Folklorico da Bahia, in Salvador. In addition, they took classes with master percussionists from Olodum, Timbalada and Ilé Aiyé, and attended the concert of Ivete Sangalo, Harmonia do Samba and Margareth Menezes. This past October, two members took additional classes with Ari Colares in Sao Paulo.

In the city of Tucson, Sambalanço has performed at the University of Arizona, Tucson Meet Yourself, Carnaval 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and has held a joint performance with Reveille.

In addition, a couple of members have presented the music of Brazil when invited guests such as Marisa Monte, Caetano Veloso, Ivan Lins and Leila Pinheiro have done shows at Centennial Hall on the University of Arizona Campus.

Sambalanço members are a unique blend of musicians of very high caliber that together represent Brazil in the best way possible


Bill, Falina, Linus and Alex






The new members 2010 without Orestes yet


Front: Falina and Danny
Back: Aaron, Alex, Billy,Linus, Andre, Sandra, Carola and Dan



THIS Audio file Sonho meu, recorded during first rehearsal of the song, September 2009. Dan, Carola, Billy, Linus and Alex.


THIS Audio file O Ultimo por do Sol was recorded during a quick rehearsal for Brazilian Week. In this sample Linus sings,Billy, Alex, Dan and Carola plays the cavaquinho.

THIS Audio file O pau comeu --live at Music at the Sphere, January 2009


THIS Audio file Xangó - Batucada - Mulaté do Bundé 10 minutos- Gravado ao vivo - 26 de Abril, 2008 no Berger Performing Center, Tucson Arizona

THIS Audio file Alagados --During rehearsal, June 2008


THIS Audio file Rapunzel --During rehearsal, June 2008


THIS Audio fileTe vou dar um beijo & Vem me dar um beijo --During rehearsal, June 2008


THIS Audio fileNoite dos Mascarados --During rehearsal, Aug. 2008


Sambalanço is composed of the following members:


Daniel Samson
Daniel is an accomplished musician. He studied guitar performance at the University of Arizona and has played with many bands in Tucson. He plays several instruments and also sings. He has played classical percussion with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra for the last 20 years. Dan started his musical studies in elementary school and played in concert band. In high school he was in marching and concert bands and took drum set lessons. He attended Pima Community Collee and the University of Arizona Music School as a percussion performance major participating in orchestra, steel drums, eletronic percussion and drum set. In addition to percussion, Dan has lessons in piano and French Horn. He has been section principal for the past three years and is responsible for ordering and maintaining instruments as well as hiring percussionist for the orchestra. He is a very talented musician and we are all extremely happy to have with us a musician of so much talent with us. Daniel will be going to Brasil this coming Carnaval 2011 in Rio de Janeiro with other Sambalanco members


Sandra Klinger
Sandra is a native of Sao Paulo, Brasil. Sandra has been singing for many years and started to sing with Sambalanço last year. In addition, she is main Board member of the Brazilian Community in Tucson and the Chair of the Brazilian Week Celebration.


Dr. Bianca Afonso
A native of Brasil, Bianca is a medical doctor that specializes in general medicine. She has also been singing for many years and is now part of our band. We are so lucky to have her. Bianca will now sing back-up in Sambalanço.


Orestes Morfin
We are so happy that Orestes is back with us again. An accomplished musician, Orestes had played with Sambalanço for 5 years and then he took a two year sabbatical. He is now back with us and we are so happy to have him. Orestes has been playing drums for years. He was a member of Bitch Magnet, a band formed at Oberlin College and tour the country with the band. He has 5 Cd's with Bitch Magnet. Orestes was one of the original founding members of Sambalanço and we could not be happier to have such a strong drummer with us.

Falina Enriquez
Falina started playing guitar and singing since when she was a child, beginning with Mexican and American folk songs. In 1999 she joined Alborada, an Andean band based out of Rincon High School. Later she played with the Arizona version of Khenany, a professional Andean band with whom she played bass, guitar and charango for 6 years.

In 2004 Falina formed the folk-acoustic duo T.G. Express with her friend, Michael Ronstadt for which she wrote original songs as well as played guitar and sang lead vocals. In 2004 she became the original bassist for Combo Westside, a full band that blends jazz, pop, rock and latin music.

Falina began singing backup vocals with Sambalanco in 2006. Although she currently lives in Chicago, she still maintains relationships with her band mates and participate in their practices, gigs and recording sessions.

Carolina Ibáñez-Murphy
A native of Lima, Peru, Carola as she is known by her friends, has been playing music from the age of 5 years old. At that tender age, she entered the prestigious National Conservatory of Music in Lima, Peru where she gave her own renditions of Classical pieces she had learned by ear as part of her audition. She stayed at the Conservatory until 1980, where she was sent to study at a College in the East Coast.

While in Lima, Carola was member of 3 different bands and she also played while attending College in Pennsylvania. Because her mother was born in Brazil and her grandmother was Brazilian, Carola grew up listening to chorinhos and a particular type that her grandmother called “tanguinho fuladinho.” Every festivity in her house, was always celebrated with music of both countries, Peru and Brazil, since it is part of her heritage.

Although, no such a type really exists, it gave Carola a basis of the chorinhos that her grandmother would play in the guitar and sing in portuguese. While Carola is now a professor of languages, her love for music has never stopped, especially for the sounds of her childhood, that only Brazilian music brings to her heart.

Carola sings and plays the keyboards, guitars, charango, cavaquinho, accordeon, repenique, triangle, agogo, bamborica and surdo.

Linus Lerner
A native of Brazil, Linus has conducted orchestras, choirs and instrumental groups in Brazil, the United States, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Spain and Mexico. Linus has been assistant conductor of the University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the UA Philarmonica, the University of Colorado Opera and has served an assistant conductor with the Arizona Opera Company.

In addition, he was associate conductor at the Opera in the Ozarks, the Tallahassee Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Florida State University Orchestras. Numerous are the operas that Linus has conducted, among them are: La Traviata, Suor Angelica, Barber of Seville, Semele, La Cenerentola, Die Fledermaus, Merry Wives of Windsor, La Canterina, Carmen, Don Giovanni,Le Nozze di Figaro and Procedura Penal.

In 2001 Lerner earned a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Florida State University. He also has a Master’s degree in Voice Performance from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor’s Degree in Choral Conducting at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

He has been the artistic and executive director of Reveille Tucson Men’s Chorus in Tucson, AZ since 2003. Under his direction, the chorus has recorded three CDs and performed numerous concerts in Arizona and New Mexico, as well as tours in Mexico, Brazil and Canada. As a singer, Lerner has performed in many operas and concerts in the United States, Italy and Brazil, and has received awards in Competitions such as the Neyde Thomas International Voice Competition, the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra Voice Competition and the Miami University Concerto Competition. He also currently teaches voice at his private studio.

Bill M. Martinez
Bill is a native Tucsonan who started playing music in grade school all the way through High School. Bill started playing brass instruments such as Trumpet, Trombone, Baritone Horn, and making Tuba and Sousaphone his main instruments. In High School, Bill played in the Marching Band, Concert Band, Orchestra, Jazz Band and Pep Band.

During this time, Bill also played percussion such as Congas and small hand percussion instruments. Percussion then, became his passion. He started to specialize in Latin Percussion playing with Mexican American Bands, Salsa Band and Latin Jazz Band. Because of the Latin influence, he wanted to learn more, and discovered Brazilian Music.

This is when he started training himself, twenty two years ago in the rhythms of Brazilian Music and Percussion. Bill was the co-founder of Sounds of Brazil from 1992-1997, the main Brazilian Band in Tucson. He also was instrumental in continuing the Brazilian tradition of celebrating Carnaval in Tucson. In addition, Bill played with Brazil and Co and was the co-founder and Co- Director of Batucaxé a Brazilian based percussion ensemble.

Bill has continued his studies of Brazilian Music through the years, traveling to Brazil for the last ten years, taking percussion lessons from various Master Percussionists in cities such as, Porto Seguro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Bill is also a Studio Musician, who has recorded with many groups, such as: Larry Redhouse Quartet, Avatar Band, and Circadian Rhythms. Bill is also sponsored and a good friend of Contemporânea Drums in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Bill currently plays with Saravá a Bossa Nova Band and Sambalanço a Carnaval Brazilian Dance Band where he is the co-band leader and one of the main percussionists. He plays Congas, Timbal, Repenique, Surdos, Tamborica, and pandeiro.

Alex Rivera-Rios
A native of Puerto Rico, Alexis has been playing music since his early teens. His first instrument was the drums, which he played for a couple of years. Later, he shifted his musical interest from the percussion to the guitar. He studied classical guitar during the summer of 1992 at the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico.

While pursuing his BS in Computer Engineer at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, he was the leader of the ska/rock band Mar de Tierra; a project that lasted for 2 years. Later, he spent most of his spare time composing music on his computer; mostly electronic/new age/rock.

After graduating college, he moved to Tucson to work in 1999 where he continued composing in his home studio. (http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=17984).

Although his main instrument is the guitar, Alexis has collaborated as a bassist in projects such as the rap/funk Odd Association; (http://profile.myspace.com/oddassociation1) and alternative band A Point In Time (http://www.myspace.com/apointintime).

He recorded guitars for the Dub/Experimental project The Aquanarians (http://www.myspace.com/theaquanarians ). He has also produced music local artists such as Diana Gen (http://www.myspace.com/sparklestylee) and Dez. (http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=17984)

Thanks to the magic of the internet, he collaborated with his long time friend Jose Mendez (in Ohio at that time) for the Session 6 Project (http://www.myspace.com/session6project) . One of the outcomes of this collaboration was the song Estamos Solos recorded for the compilation CD Rocka y Rollo (http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7019456/a/Rocka+Y+Rollo.htm).

In 2006, he continued his classical guitar studies under the instruction of Dr. Jorge Pastrana. Always looking for new challenges, Alexis joined Sambalanco later in 2007 to further develop his guitar skills and continue exploring new music.

Aaron Szabo
Aaron Szabo recently moved to Tucson from the San Francisco bay area. Aaron received a BA in Jazz improvisation from San Jose State University. Aaron began to study Afro-Cuban music in the early 90’s.

He was mostly involved with a group named Charangon Nueve.

Charanga is a classic style of Cuban music that was popular in the 40-50’s. Aaron did some work with the Brazilian Bateria Samba Asia. He got the opportunity to march in San Francisco’s Carnaval.

Aaron is one of Sambalanco’s newest members and looks forward to the challenge and excitement of playing percussion in a full Brazilian band.

Past Members of Sambalanço

Dr. Luis Gustavo Gonçalves de Gonçalves: Violao, Guitar, Cavaco, Repenique and Pito.(Brasil)
Dr. Leonardo Lopes: Guitar, Cavaco, Back-up Vocals.(Brasil)
Dr. Renata Souza-Migliati: Back-up Vocals. (Brasil)
Dr. Rosangela Sviercoski: Back-up Vocals. (Brasil)
Dr. Eliana Rivero: Back-up Vocals
Dr. Teresa Scionti: Back-up Vocals
Dr. Andre Tavares: Back-up Vocals. (Brasil)
Orestes Morfin: Bateria
Carol Evans: Back-up Vocals. (Brasil)
Eric Sieger: Bass
David Goshis: congas, Back-up
Charles Downman: Guitar
Jesse Dickinson: Sax
Fabiola Lopes: Back-up. (Brasil)
Elektra: Guitar
Cliff Berrien: Percussion
Drew Andreatta: Percussion
John Houtride: Guitar
Peter Smith: Guitar,Cavaco
Scott Criss: Bass
Peter Schnittman: Bass


Very important people for Sambalanço
Dr. Luis Gustavo Gonçalves de Gonçalves was our first Director and the person that created the name and the band. Tavo left our Old Pueblo to head for the stars!! He is now working for NASA. Please enjoy the following pictures of Tavo! Obrigada Tavo!


Roberto Guariglia, his brother Sergio and his uncle Miguel at the "Contemporánea" Shop have been invaluable. Roberto has sponsored many of our workshops, trips within Sao Paulo and also with the purchase of our instruments. If you need any kind of brazilian instrument, please visit Roberto! Obrigada Roberto at:


 

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