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Location
Community Focus
Brazilian, Latina/e/o/x
Location
Seattle, WA
Community Focus
Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
VamoLá! is a Seattle-based Brazilian drum and dance ensemble that brings the spirit of Carnaval to life through vibrant parades and performances.
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
America's oldest Brazilian music ensemble
Community Focus
African, WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
ICAF is a non-profit educational organization committed to the cultivation, preservation, and growth of the African Brazilian cultural art form Capoeira Angola.
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Des Moines, WA
We work toward offering opportunities for artists, young musicians to developing cultural and educational experiences with our new space. Besides BrasilFest, we created Arts Globo, a new program providing intergenerational safe space with activities programed in Des Moines. We prioritizing services to minority, vulnerable and at-risk populations through arts, educational program and for individuals artists. As recent anti-racism and anti-oppression efforts, we increased our board reflecting more diversity reflecting female as 60% of leadership, and 99% of immigrants as board of directors and staff.
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Kirkland, WA
BrasilFest was created in 1999 by Brazilian immigrants Eduardo and Ana Paula Mendonça with the mission to expose our community to Brazilian arts and traditions during the week of the Brazilian Folklore Day.

Community Focus
WA, Brazilian, Latina/e/o/x
Location
, WA
Giordano Productions brings the best of Brazilian, Latin and other global music to the Northwest.
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
The mission is to maintain the tradition of our Capoeira Angola to cultivate generations of students, capoeira artist instructors, and future masters who will pass on the legacy. Our programs are dedicated to the cultivation and preservation of Grand Mestre Nô’s Capoeira Angola lineage in the State of Washington. Through a combination of traditional and modern movement pedagogies, we aim to motivate our vibrant and unique community of diverse, mindful, and supportive practitioners.
Community Focus
African, WA, Brazilian
Location
Olympia, WA
Samba Olywa is an amateur percussion and dance group dedicated to building community through the learning and sharing of Samba and other rhythms.
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
Seattle Music From Everywhere
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
A multi-ethnic female-led sextet, En Canto is Seattle's only Forró band. Forró music is a combination of multiple Brazilian rhythms including baião, xote and arrasta-pé. The word refers to both the musical genre and the accompanying partner dance party events where it is heard.
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Kirkland, WA
Show Brazil Productions is a family arts organization lead by co-founders Brazilian-American immigrants Eduardo and Ana Paula Mendonça with the goal of incorporate quality, experience and total commitment into every one of its projects to create more than satisfying results.
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
Choroloco is an acoustic trio of Seattle musicians brought together by their shared love of Brazilian music. The name Choroloco reflects their enthusiasm and love for choro, a highly melodic and rhythmic form of Brazilian popular music that originated in early 1900’s Rio de Janeiro.
Community Focus
African, WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
Caixa is a musical group based in Seattle. We strive to preserve the classic Afro-Brazilian samba heritage. Our live shows feature sambas, bossa novas, boleros, tangos, Portuguese fados, as well as other European and middle-eastern styles of music.
Community Focus
African, WA, Brazilian
Location
Seattle, WA
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian, Latina/e/o/x
Location
Seattle, WA
Brazilian born pianist Geísa Dutra is a foremost performer of Latin American and Spanish art music and a world class interpreter of master works of the solo piano and chamber music repertoire. Passionate melody in a rich variety of rhythm and style is the signature of this artist as she performs the music of European and Latin classical composers.