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The new sound of Rio
8.May.2008
Rio de Janeiro is a naturally musical state and no other place reflects this vocation like Lapa neighborhood. It’s there, right in the historical center of Rio de Janeiro city, that "tribes" in search of a wide variety of rhythms meet up to relive the glory days of one of the city's most bohemian spots for nightlife.
The rebirth of Lapa has brought new stages to the neighborhood’s centuries old mansions, and on them, young artists have taken it upon themselves to continuously renovate the cadences of bossa nova,
choro (old-time Brazilian jazz) and samba, Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional rhythms. It’s this one-of-a-kind creativity that is now reaching beyond Lapa’s borders to arrive in Paris with the show
La nouvelle musique de Rio.
This event, on May 14, is being promoted by the 1Rio Insitute and the place could not be any more appropriate:
La Cigale, an old cabaret located in
Pigalle close to the famous
Moulin Rouge. Considered a historical monument,
La Cigale currently has a modern show hall and hosts innumerous vanguard musical groups. Just like in Lapa.
The show is set to open this year’s series of presentations with music from Rio, in many different large international capitals, but it isn’t the only opportunity to hear the best the city has to offer in typical rhythms. This May, the 1Rio Institute, in partnership with Sistema Globo de Rádio, is launching an exclusive channel to bring Rio’s music to internauts the world over: Rádio 1Rio. To enjoy the sound of Rio, just access the 1Rio.net portal.
Production Credits
Show:
La nouvelle musique de Rio (Rio’s new music)
Artists: Mart´Nália, Hamilton de Holanda, Luiz Melodia, Roberta Sá, Pedro Luis and other artists
Presentation: Remy Kolpa Kopoul
Date: May 14, 2008
Time: 8 p.m.
Place: La Cigale - 120, Boulevard de Rochechouart
Capacity: 958 seats
Website:
http://www.lacigale.fr
Sponsors
Firjan
www.firjan.org.br
Tam Linhas Aéreas (direct flights from Paris to Rio de Janeiro)
www.tam.com.br
Lapa: music, history and culture in various key
If you’d like to see the best concerts in Rio, find crowds of happy, young, beautiful people and even learn a little history, you should go to Lapa neighborhood. In the city’s most bohemian neighborhood, musicality knows no bounds and offers choices for everybody.
In Lapa, classical music played at Cecília Meirelles Hall, electronic music played at the Circo Voador and the Fundição Progresso, more popular, danceable rhythms at the Asa Branca, and the lyrical sounds of bossa nova, choro and samba all live together in perfect harmony, echoing throughout the entire neighborhood.
Some holdovers from old Lapa are the National School of Music building, the Public Walkway and the Arches, an aqueduct that now has tracks for a trolley that comes and goes from Santa Teresa neighborhood. But what the area holds on to, more than anything, is its capacity for transformation.
After the sun sets, calm antique stores on
Rua do Lavradio street become lively venues to listen and dance to music. Brightly lit bar and restaurant signs add special charm to
Mem de Sá and
Riachuelo streets. Nowadays, as in the past, Lapa hums with excitement.
In past decades, considered the city’s red light district, the neighborhood brought together politicians, artists, intellectuals and
malandros - folkloric fast talking slicksters in white suits and hats - in its cabarets. Currently, promoted to the category of cultural hotspot, it no longer has too many
malandros, but now includes students and executives among its frequenters. It’s an increasingly multicultural place.
Links
Rio de Janeiro City Hall
www.rio.rj.gov.br/riotur/pt/atracao/?CodAtr=1406
Website about Lapa
www.lanalapa.com.br
Bar and Restaurant Guide
http://vejabrasil.abril.com.br/rio-de-janeiro/tag/LAPA
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