Tio Chorinho with Flávia Nascimento / Les Aunties

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Monday, July 15th, 2024
5:00 PM to 11:00 PM

An afternoon of free music from Brazil, Chad, and beyond! With two ensembles: Tio Chorinho featuring Flavia Nascimento, and Les Aunties.

Tio Chorinho and Flavia Nascimento

“New Orleans jazz of Brazil.”

Flávia Nascimento & Tio Chorinho is an epic pairing of two of Canada’s top Brazilian roots music artists. Hailing from the rich musical wellsprings of Bahia in northeastern Brazil, Flávia is a prolific performer at major festivals, concert halls, and street parties everywhere, wowing audiences with her soulful voice and boisterous presence. Tio Chorinho is Canada’s first ensemble dedicated to choro, the “New Orleans Jazz of Brazil.” Fashioning their own distinctive approach to Brazil’s seminal music, listeners are charmed and thrilled by the group’s virtuosity, dynamics and unique repertoire. Together with Flavia they explore Brazil’s original soul music along with their own original tunes.

Les Aunties (From Chad)

Through the rhythms of singing, dancing, and the use of nine calabashes, the 9-women group, Les Aunties lead a spectacle that bridges the deepest African traditions and spirituality with modern inclusivity, performing with both traditional percussion as well as drumpads and DJ consoles. It’s a danced musical manifesto for women’s freedom, originating from Chad in West Central Africa.

The music is a blend of rhythms and chants from the Sahel region, sung in Sara and in Arabic. When mixed with electronic music, they create an Afrofuturistic sound.

Recognized for their talent, the Aunties, like other Chadian women, present themselves in this project as resilient heroines of society. They are nine women from the south of Chad who have escaped family violence to move to the city of Ndjamena.