Musical Journeys: An International Cabaret for Amazonia

An exciting, one of a kind, transatlantic cabaret of performers from Brazil and Canada

An online event with a very special in person show at Halton Mill

• the international performers beamed into the Mill, on the big screen with great sound
• Plus, in Halton Mill, live Capoeira and Samba and Brazilian music, food and art - a real tropical mix!

International performers include:

• Mary Beth Carty, Canadian Traditional Folk Singer of the Year 2024, from Nova Scotia Canada
  
  
• Carmen Guérard, Québec’s one-row accordion virtuoso  
  
  
• Cacuriá Balaio das Rosas, Afro-Brazilian dance  from São Luís, Brazil,  

• Gilles Losier and the Famille Leblanc - virtuoso 89 year old pianist and violin player, along with a fabulous father/daughters multi-instrumental musical family  -  together, guardians of the New Brunswick Acadian tradition,

• Yene Velt - a Montreal based trad Klezmer ensemble with fiddles and Tsimbl

EXTRA: Live at Halton Mill:

Samba Batala

Capoeira Angola Ogum

Music from Brazilian artist, capoeirista and singer Artur Soar

Brazilian food

Bar

Art exhibition: Hannah Frank and Artur Soar - an artistic dialogue between Scotland and Brazil

Cabaret starts 7 pm.  

"In person" tickets, £20 (low waged/student £10)

"On line" tickets £15 (low waged/student £5)

Free for ‘in person’ ticket holders : 2-5 pm at Halton Mill  Capoeira and Afro-Brazilian Dance workshop  

A quarter of all income goes to support three Amazonian projects:

• The Dom Phillips Institute  
• A rap collective, "AltasBatalha"
• A project taking musical instruments out to remote Indigenous villages near Tefe, Amazonas

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