Our Sunday performance is going to be SO exciting!!
We’re singing in the finale of the CubaDupa festival with a Brazilian samba band!
We’ve been rehearsing with Wellington Batucada, who have about 25 members. But they are joining with other Batucada bands from round the country and there will be something like 150 percussionists on the day, plus some brass (trumpet and trombone).
Here’s Wellington Batucada at CubaDupa 2017:
On vocals, there will be somewhere between 80 and 100 members of the Wellington Community Choir.
Also joining us is Brazilian songstress, Alda. Mostly we’re singing backup for Alda, who has a gorgeously deep alto voice, but one song (Bandeira Branca) is just the choir. Here’s another group performing it:
Although the band and choir will be grooving out to the beat (similar to what you saw in the video above), there is no set choreography. But we will be joined by some dancers.
So all in all, it should be quite an exciting performance. I’m just a bit worried about whether my almost 60 year old knees can handle the jandal…
After an hour and a half rehearsal tonight, they were feeling rather overworked, and I could barely walk up the path and stairs when I got home.
Between 12 noon Saturday and 6pm Sunday, there will be scores of performances, suitable for the whole family, at over 20 venues in Wellington’s Cuba St – dance, theatre, music, street performances, and plenty of street food available.
If you’re in Welly, have a look at the timetable, and come check out whatever you fancy. We’ll be on the Swan stage at about 3.20 on Sunday.
Hopefully there will be video footage I can post next week!
Thanks for reading
Videos from YouTube. Top image from CubaDupa website.
i did a google search for this Brazilian songstress and this is the result i got
is this her?
Haha. No.
Whatcha been up to? You've been quiet again lately. Too many bouncy castle jobs?
work mon to friday has been crazy busy..and yeah had a few bouncy castles on the weekends of late..that should slow down a bit over winter...i still have been lurking in the shadows of steemit!
Wow, that is rather catchy .... dont get stage fright now eh. And make sure we can see you in the vid {smile}
Enjoy, sounds like quite a festival
Being a short soprano, I'm nearly always in the front row. No stage fright, but 4 hours and counting, so starting to get excited.
So how did it go? I popped over to your blog to see if you had posted anything around the conce... and got embroiled with @tygertyger around transgender stuff..... oi vey!!
Yeah, maybe I should have just kept my mouth shut, since it appears that everything that came out of it achieved the opposite of my aim. I still stand by my initial statement that we should be able to talk about things. I'm not keen on arguing about it though.
The concert was pretty good. I've got a post mostly written, just waiting to see if any video footage gets posted online.
If everbody knew everything about everything life would be dull. So one cannot talk about astrology as a subject just because you do not know EVERYTHING about it? How does one learn then? That guys / girls / theys attitude sucks big time.
what a cool rhythm
Exactly! Although we all (the choir) love singing, adding an exciting beat to it adds so much more dimension.
Sounds like it'll be a grand ol' time! Hope the knees handle the jandal lol
Me too! I'm not really sure why they complained so much, it was pretty easy steps, just side to side or front and back. I can only think it's the length of time.
We're supposed to go to a rehearsal with the combined bands at 10am, but I might give it a miss if I can. Not sure I could do an hour in the morning and then another half hour at performance level later.
It sucks that bodies get older... Sometimes I end up with really bad neck pain just from hunching over while I'm painting, and being on the computer too much lol
Yup, the dreaded aging... Check out @marianneyardley's series on computer posture. That might help with painting posture too. Or not...
I do have an inversion table, and a few stretches and yoga postures that I can do that really help but, if I don't do them.. lol
All the best with your performance.
Thanks! Should be lots of fun.
you're welcome
good luck. I hope the weather plays ball. It won't be much fun if it is like today!
Yay, the sun came out. Fingers crossed it will stay out. Will I see you and @skymaiden bopping away in the front row of the audience?
I'm not sure. We have to go out to Petone today to deliver Easter eggs to god children, so it will depend on how long that takes.
Oh no! I wish I knew! We are off to see our godson soon.
You have all the fun, @kiwideb. :)
I do my best to have a little fun from time to time...
What lovely music. I look forward to seeing your video of your performance!
Fingers crossed there is one! Or at least photos.
Sorry I missed you guys yesterday! How did it go?
Pretty good. I'm hoping someone will put up a video soon, and I'll post!
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