New songbook!
 Capoeira Angola Songbook, compiled by FICA New York, contains 56 ladainhas and corridos (with English translations!), bios of our mestres, and a number of pictures.
Each songbook is $15, which includes shipping in the continental U.S. International shipping available - contact me for rates. Please send me an e-mail if you would like to order songbooks for yourself or your group!
Texts from Brazil
 In honor of the recognition of capoeira as a national heritage of Brazil, the Ministry of External Relations has published a 100+ page book of capoeira articles and beautiful artwork/photography. Over the next few weeks, I will make these articles available on the Capoeira Connection!
Click here to preview the table of contents and introduction.
Christmas Coupon
 On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coupon for some capoeira gear!
Enter the coupon code NATAL08 during checkout at Bahia-Capoeira.com to get $12 off your purchase. We will include a special gift for orders over $50!
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Written by Shayna McHugh
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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 Although capoeira developed in Brazil, it has unmistakably African roots. Have you ever wondered if anyone practices capoeira on the African continent today?
The answer is yes! Check out this overview of some of the groups currently playing the brincadeira de angola in Morroco, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Mozambique, South Africa, Guinea, and Senegal. |
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Written by Shayna McHugh
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
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 How can I get a better sound out of the berimbau?
When am I allowed to take an instrument in the bateria? Should I improvise on the atabaque? Find the answers to these questions and many more in this list of tips I've picked up over the years. |
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Written by Shayna McHugh
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
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 Mestre Pastinha said that capoeiristas are not obligated to lead singing, but they are obligated to respond to the chorus. Check out this list of helpful hints for responding, leading, and singing the ladainha and louvação.
You might also want to check out the FAQ: What types of songs are sung? - which explains the difference between the different types of capoeira songs (with examples). |
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Written by Ricardo Pamfilio de Sousa
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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 Capoeira is more than just a sport to which music is indispensable. It is also a philosophy of life, rooted in fundamentals that speak of freedom and knowing oneself.
Capoeiristas are also musicians, for they sing and play the berimbau, caxixi, pandeiro, agogo, atabaque and reco-reco. The melodies can be rhyming prose, or songs with or without refrains. Colorful names like samba-de-roda, corrido, ladainha, chula, oracoes and bendicoes describe the interplay of voices that go with the interplay of movement by participants in a capoeira roda. |
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Written by Pedro Rodolpho Jungers Abib
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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 Capoeira is one of the most powerful and meaningful expressions of Afro-Brazilian culture, an expression so multifaceted that it is understood as a martial style or styel of dance, as sport or pastime, with equal plausibility. How, then, are we to define such a thing?
Among the myriad features of capoeira, none has given rise to greater curiosity, more debates, opinions, storytelling, and handing down of legend through the oral tradition of popular culture than its mythical and religious side. This is one of the most important vehicles for the transmission of knowledge and wisdom. |
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