Gilberto Gil, one of the all-time greatest Brazilian musicians, is coming to LA Tuesday, October 23rd, for an all-forró show. Forró is country party music from northeastern Brazil in the state of ...

Most people know bossa nova and samba, but fewer outside of Brazil know about the great country music of Pernambuco — a northeastern state in Brazil–called forró (pronounced for-ho). This is the music ...

Brazilian singer/guitarist Gilberto Gil may be 70, but he is not content on tour to simply recreate his lilting, tuneful hits. Never miss a beat. Get our free daily newsletter. District Line Daily ...

The evening was a total contrast, musically and culturally, with the cool of Rio’s bossas and the rhythmic African complexities of samba which have always inspired Gil’s eclectic repertoire, but forró ...

Gil launched his six-piece band with “Fé Na Festa” ("Faith in the Festival"), a jumpy, infectious forró exuding the flavour of the red-earth farmlands where it was born and which remains in the singer ...

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born 26 June 1942), known professionally as Gilberto Gil (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒiwˈbɛʁtu ˈʒiw]), is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his ...

Forro in the Dark has brightened New York's downtown arts scene with its version of a Brazilian folkloric music largely unknown, even by many in Brazil. Mauro Refosco, the group's founder and ...