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Monobloco is coming to shake up Miami this Carnaval! The popular group from Rio de Janeiro will perform on Friday, Mar. 3, at Wynwood Marketplace, 2250 NW Second Ave. in Miami.
General admission tickets are $55 and can be purchased at www.eventbrite.com or www.BrazilianNites.com. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Opening on the main stage will be singer Gabi Lacombe and her band, well known in Florida for their contagious energy. DJ Tovitz also will liven up the ball with lots of carioca funk, samba and dance music.
The Monobloco show is an intense journey through the joy and energy of Brazilians and their passion for samba and Carnaval. The group started in 2000 as a samba party that quickly gained popularity by creating powerful cover versions of classics by Tim Maia, Jorge Benjor, Alceu Valença and many others.
In addition to these hits, Monobloco also plays samba classics, marchinhas, forró and even funk. During the world-famous Rio Carnival, Monobloco became an official “bloco,” which today attracts millions of people to the streets to dance and sing.
Monobloco developed a concert band that has toured Brazil and the world and has also recorded several Latin GRAMMY-nominated albums. Monobloco will kick off the Carnaval U.S. Tour in Miami, and then head on to more shows in San Diego, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Glen Echo and Boston.
About Monobloco
Monobloco is a Brazilian “bloco,” or street band, that plays during Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro and is also a professional touring show. Unlike most of Rio’s blocos, which tend to play one type of music (typically samba), Monobloco has become extremely popular among younger audiences because of its “fresh” sound, playing a mix of various rhythms such as coco, ciranda, marchinha, xote, samba, and also samba-rock and funk.
It continues to grow in popularity each year and can be seen as a symbol of the resurging popularity in Carnaval blocos in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2000, the group was formed by members of the rock band Pedro Luís e A Parede as an educational project and continues to teach a percussion course each year. However, the group’s popularity soon led to the creation of a professional touring band traveling extensively around Brazil and also internationally.
Their public “rehearsals” at Fundição Progresso in Lapa, the nightclub district of central Rio de Janeiro, regularly attract up to 4,000 paying spectators on the Friday nights leading up to Carnival. Then the bloco performs for free on the street once a year on the Sunday following Ash Wednesday, thus “closing” Carnaval and attracting a crowd estimated at 400,000.
In 2002 the group released an eponymous CD. Their second release, a live CD and DVD titled Monobloco Ao Vivo, recorded in October 2006 and released in 2007, was a tremendous success. In 2009, to celebrate their 10th anniversary, Monobloco recorded a concert at Fundição Progresso. In 2010, they released the album 10 which was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY for Best Samba/Pagode album. In 2013, they released the album Arrastao da Alegria collaborating with stars like Ivete Sangalo and Ailton Assumpção.
Their name comes from the fact that, when it was founded, they had the idea of recording the sound of the entire bloco with just one microphone, hence “mono” bloco.
In July 2007, the Monobloco show toured the United Kingdom for the first time and then returned again in 2008 and 2009. They have also toured in Portugal, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand where as well as performing at various venues where they conducted workshops for local bands such as AKSamba and Wellington Batucada.
In 2021, during the COVID pandemic, Monobloco turned to the Internet and social media, as did many other artists. The group was able to reach hundreds of thousands of fans across Brazil and around the world through several livestream performances. The percussion workshops continued as well with the main percussionists of the group holding regular classes and demonstrations online, free of charge.
In 2022, Carnaval returned with full force in Brazil and Monobloco hit the road once again to spread joy across the country. The new tour will continue to share music and love across not only Brazil, but across the U.S. and Europe as well.
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