Jacaré Brazil Holiday Virtual (Livestream at Heartwood)

This is the Jacaré Brazil Holiday Concert at Heartwood Studios in Gainesville, Florida. This live performance features UF faculty and students sharing Brazilian traditional instrumental music (choros, maxixe, samba, música popular brasileira) for the holidays.

Specializing in the musical traditions of Latin America’s largest nation, UF’s Jacaré Brazil Instrumental (Brazilian music ensemble) is the most diverse performance ensemble of its kind within a university performing arts program. The distinctive mixing of musical instruments such as the violin, clarinet, flute, trumpet, trombone, piano, cavaquinho (small Brazilian guitar), guitar, and pandeiro (Brazilian tambourine) creates nostalgic sentiments with colorful and brilliant textures. Combining forces of different instrumental pieces and offering contemporary instrumental arrangements, this concert explores the wealth of Brazilian music.

Listening to this music never fails to enrich one’s life and somehow festively imports a sense of sharing and community. Recapturing our own curiosity, stimulating it, or merely satisfying it is something that challenges us every time we teach and perform. We can say this without any risk of being pretentious because our thirst is not quenched by us, but by the Music of Brazil as a whole.

Personnel
Welson Tremura, Director (guitar, bass-clarinet, voice)
Cody Case, cavaquinho/small guitar
Silviu Ciulei, guitar
Aaron Colverson, violin
José Valentino Ruiz, flute
Kenneth Metzker, pandeiro
Pablo Marquine, piano
Randy Lee, trumpet
Jemmie Robertson, trombone
Brian Taylor, clarinet

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