Brazil Nuts

Couldn’t summon enough scrilla to afford a plane ticket to Rio in time for this year’s Carnaval? Worry not, as DJ Seduce and his Afro:Baile crew will be offering all the frenetic festivities of the annual celebration (minus the colorful floats and bad behavior) during Carnival do Brazil. A multicultural...
By Benjamin LeathermanMarch 10, 2011
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Couldn’t summon enough scrilla to afford a plane ticket to Rio in time for this year’s Carnaval? Worry not, as DJ Seduce and his Afro:Baile crew will be offering all the frenetic festivities of the annual celebration (minus the colorful floats and bad behavior) during Carnival do Brazil.

A multicultural mix of music and dance will be on tap, including the samba stylings of Grupo Brasilidade and special guest Salome de Bahia, as well as a performance by dance troupe Grupo Axe Capoeria. DJ Seduce will drop tracks from his newest CD Brazil:Sambossica 3 throughout the night.

Sat., March 12, 8 p.m., 2011

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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music and nightlife. He joined New Times in 2003. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

benjamin.leatherman@newtimes.com

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