Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the new Rota do Samba, musicians tell stories through song. Photograph by Dan Stables This article was produced by National ...

Across Seattle Center on Sunday, the drums beat loudly — deep, shallow, slow, fast — and carried rhythms from West Africa, Brazil and other parts of the globe. Seattle resident Thierno Diop, a native ...

Samba can’t be learned from a textbook alone. Brazil’s musical tradition is best understood first-hand and up close — close enough to feel the drumbeat reverberate inside you. “ It's like an ocean of ...

Part of the large and enthusiastic crowd which enjoyed the Samba Parade through the town on Sunday afternoon. Picture: Paul Mohan Rio Mitchell from Five Oaks at the Samba Parade through the town on ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the shuffling rhythms of samba, in its defiance and energy and lust for life, lies the soul of Rio de Janeiro. Samba is heard ...