Events

Jorge Alabe 's Grupo Samba Rio will be performing a mini-parade and stage show at the Rockridge Out and About street festival. So long as you make it to most of the regular Sunday rehearsals during September and can hang on your part, you'd almost certainly be welcome to join us for this performance.

Weekly gathering of Jorge Alabe 's Grupo Samba Rio samba group. Beginning class from 5-6pm, intermediate/advanced from 6-7:30pm.

Regular Bateria Lucha workshop where we'll be working on Maracatu and other arrangements applied to the Maracatu instruments (alfaias, caixias, gongue, etc). Timbals are also welcome.

$10 and up sliding scale for the 2 hour class. No one turned away for lack of funds.

As usual, if you can meet at 6:50pm at our house to help haul gear, that'd be great.

We're still looking for just the right location for regular, indoor workshops, so please keep your eyes open and your suggestions coming. Thanks!

Since the previous date was rained out, Xuxa had to reschedule his infamous Golden Gate Park samba/churrasco party for a new day. Details below...

ANNOUNCING DAVID (XUXA) WEBSTER'S 5TH ANNUAL "(I WISH I WERE) GOING AWAY PARTY" IN GOLDEN GATE PARK ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2007, FROM NOON TIL DARK!!!

so here's a party invitation for another one of my big parties in golden gate park in a couple weeks on sunday, october 7, 2007. it will be a potluck barbeque (brazilian style churrasco), with a samba drumming jam/batucada (bring instruments and dirty dancing shoes and join in!), pagode, and lots of fun people -- same scene as my other going away/coming back/whatever parties in the park over the past few years. last party we had bossa nova, pagode, batucada, maracatu...

NOTE: THIS IS *NOT* THE SAME LOCATION IN THE PARK WHERE I HAD MY JUNE PARTY. BUT IT *IS* IN THE SAME PLACE AS MY PARTIES LAST YEAR...

details:

BARBEQUE/BRASILIAN DRUMMING JAM/PAGODE/POTLUCK/PICNIC
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2007
FROM 12:00 NOON UNTIL DARK (7:30 P.M . OR SO - ?)

Weekly gathering of Jorge Alabe 's Grupo Samba Rio samba group. One of the last times Jorge will be teaching for many months. We're starting 1 hour later than usual to allow folks more time to hang out at Xuxa's samba party earlier that afternoon.

Regular Bateria Lucha workshop where we'll be working on Maracatu and other arrangements applied to the Maracatu instruments (alfaias, caixias, gongue, etc). Timbals are also welcome.  This will be our first workshop in our new location!

$10 and up sliding scale for the 2 hour class. No one turned away for lack of funds.

If you are driving and can meet at 6:30pm at our house to help haul gear, that'd be great. I'm discussing the possibility of renting locker space at the studio to store a bunch of instruments there, which would be ideal, but meanwhile, we'll have to bring everything ourselves.

Weekly gathering of Jorge Alabe 's Grupo Samba Rio samba group. Beginning class from 5-6pm, intermediate/advanced from 6-7:30pm.

Jorge will be out of town, which means Derek and/or Marcel will be leading the workshop.

Regular Bateria Lucha workshop where we'll be working on material for the upcoming anti-war march in San Francisco. We'll certainly continue to work on maracatu, but we'll also review some of our other arrangements like afoxe/ijexa, samba reggae, samba, maxum, etc.

$10 and up sliding scale for the 2 hour class. No one turned away for lack of funds.

If you are driving and can meet at 6:30pm at our house to help haul gear, that'd be great.

My friend Rachael and I are performing at the Sangati Center in San Francisco, this Friday. with special guest - Derek Wright - on oud. Hope you can make it, we'd love to see you there!!!

Improvisational Music Duo:
Annette Bauer (recorders and sarode)
Rachael Bouch-D (cajon, daf, bongo, bells)

Sangati Center
3049 22nd Street, San Francisco
www.sangaticenter.org
tickets: $10-20 sliding scale, no-one turned away for lack of funds

Turkish and Greek melodies mingle with Spanish bulerías and Cuban rhythms. Indian ragas and Middle Eastern grooves weave into a rich musical tapestry. Medieval musical forms appear alongside odd meter improvisations. Sharing a love for music from around the world, our improvisations are inspired by a sense of the present moment and space in which we find ourselves, making each performance unique and alive.

Weekly gathering of Jorge Alabe 's Grupo Samba Rio samba group. Beginning class from 5-6pm, intermediate/advanced from 6-7:30pm.

Jorge will be out of town, which means Derek and/or Marcel will be leading the workshop.

An informal jam, twice a month (as of now), meeting Wednesdays. The next will be the 24th at 8pm.

Regular Bateria Lucha workshop where we'll be working on material for the upcoming anti-war march in San Francisco. We'll certainly continue to work on maracatu, but we'll also review some of our other arrangements like afoxe/ijexa, samba reggae, samba, maxum, etc.

$10 and up sliding scale for the 2 hour class. No one turned away for lack of funds.

If you are driving and can meet at 6:30pm at our house to help haul gear, that'd be great.

We need to haul a lot of gear for the anti-war march. We should aim to get on MacArthur BART at 9:05am, which means getting to our house at 8:30am SHARP so that we can get things loaded into a few cars and head over to BART (which is thankfully pretty close to our place). If you're coming from the East Bay, it'd be a huge help if you could lend a hand with this task, so please sign up. However, if you're *not* going to show up and help, don't sign up. ;) Better to be honest than to have me expecting you and then you don't show up. Thanks!

This will be the 40th anniversary of a historic march on the Pentagon demanding an end to the Vietnam war. 40 years later, and the U.S. military is bogged down in an even more disasterous occupation. Active duty troops are resisting the war in growing numbers. A clear majority of the U.S. supports withdrawing the troops. However, the stakes are way too high for the U.S. empire to admit defeat and leave, so it's going to take significantly more pressure and action from our side. By continuing to demonstrate, we give confidence to other people that they, too, should move from passive opposition to active resistance. We also support the growing movement of active duty GIs and vets that are against the occupation, since those are the people with the real power to stop the war machine.

Bateria Lucha is honored to have been invited to play on stage at the Labor Rally before the main event, and to lead the Labor "feeder march" over to the Civic Center. So, people who are going to be performing with us need to get to the San Francisco Federal Building by 9:45am so we can get ready before the rally starts at 10:30. After the (short) Labor rally, we'll march (basically around the corner) to the main Civic Center rally site, helping to lead the Labor contingent in chants and songs.

Weekly gathering of Jorge Alabe 's Grupo Samba Rio samba group. Beginning class from 5-6pm, intermediate/advanced from 6-7:30pm.

Jorge will be out of town, and Derek is probably unavailable this week, which means Marcel and Deborah will hopefully be leading the workshop.