Drum queen Fabiola de Andrade from the Mocidade samba school smiles during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

Meinl has boosted its samba inventory with some highly innovative and above all easy to play variations on traditional Brazilian designs. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and ...

THOUSANDS of boisterous samba fans gathered to watch the first night of Rio's carnival parades, and all eyes were on a seven-year-old girl who is the youngest drum corps queen in memory. The ...

Following the success of the Droichead Arts Centre initiated Samba Group workshops for Julys samba Festival, the workshops for adults get underway to give the public an opportunity to play those ...

Steven Brown, a freelance musician from Longridge, is on the lookout for enthusiastic Samba newbies to try his original musical classes.

Like the cuckoo, the sound of the first samba drums heralded the arrival of summer to Drogheda’s streets on Friday. For a weekend the town is the samba capital of Ireland. South American rhythms ...

Sam Ryder invited Portsmouth’s Batala samba drum band to perform his Eurovision hit ‘Spaceman’ on the main stage - as a completely last minute decision.

By Andrew Downie COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil, Dec 5 (Reuters) - FIFA has banned samba drums from Brazil's World Cup stadiums but even though local authorities are not happy about it they say it will ...

Drum queen Fabiola de Andrade from the Mocidade samba school smiles during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Credit: AP/Bruna Prado ...

But for many samba fanatics, drums are the beating heart of the party. And the maestro's hand swings, flicks, twists and pointing transform potential cacophony into transcendent synchrony.