Pão de Açúcar Vai Dar Samba

(Samba on Morro da Urca, Rio de Janeiro)

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Baiana Porta-bandeira
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Dancers Joining in!

Cooperativa Bonde do Samba presents the show "Pão de Açúcar Vai Dar Samba" Tuesday nights at 9 PM on Morro da Urca (the first cable car stop on the way up). Fifty sambistas from different samba schools bring their instruments and costumes and teach all about the schools and the great annual parade. The audience gets to join the dancers and learn samba steps. Great idea and long overdue! Congratulations to Ricardo Zerrener, the Bondinho.com webmaster, whose idea it was...who says computer nerds can't samba?

You can get your tickets through travel agents and your hotel concierge or right there on Morro da Urca before the performance.

All photographs copyright © 1998 Ricardo Zerrener, Rio de Janeiro.

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