very cool... can't wait to meet you out there...

fantastic... you'll be all warmed up when you hit the playa...

i'll give coordinates as the day draws near.

btw: anyone in sf know where to get a really large, cheap piece of linoleum? its going to be our dance floor.

oooh, this is an exciting development. you know where you'll be camping yet?

i'd love to play wif while we're out there, home-skillet.

i am ellen. Used to dance samba in carnival, practice Umbanda, and have been to the mother land (rio, not bahia yet). Think I saw you guys at BM last year, did a samba class or two. Always wanted to see a bateria on the playa, always wanted to play in one! You will meet me at burningman.

hey Ti, i used to live in philly!

hope you can make it!

Eu sou Pingüim, e outros apelidos ...

that nickname as you can see is one of many, but the first you see is my original Capoeira nickname. Also I sometime go by "toque" on the playa, a lil' play on words (it's a ski hat in Canadian vernacular, or means "touch", "note" (ie at the strike of the note) or more accurately a certain rhythm pr beat in Portuguese, eg in Capoeira there are "toques do berimbau".

In my group (axecapoeira.com) or at least in the chapter in BC where I used to live, we also play a lot of Brazilian music, so I can play several styles (the usual sambao, samba de roda, samba duro, samba-reggae) incluando algos ritmos Nordestinos (Coco de Roda, Maracatu, Coco-Baiao, Afoxe). I play surdo, timbau,alfaia pandeiro (um poco, well besides Capoeira), can play caixa, repinique, agogo, xocalho, tamborim etc. And berimbau tho' I'm rusty on that one more than others.

I have couple issues: I'm not 100% sure I can make it to BMan, though I probably will. But more importantly, I don't HAVE any of these instrumentos to call my own.

That said, I may well be coordinating the daily Capoeira rodas in the Center Camp Cafe -- I took on the role last year in absence of any other volunteers -- and shold be easily found and somehwat connected to others with an interest in Burning Samba.

One crew from Santa Cruz always plays -- Suco -- and will try to contact them about a throwdown and maybe between now and August, I can buy something.

eg here is a good Western US/California/Bay Area supplier of Brazilian percussion instruments, though at present I can't afford anything:

espiritodrums.com

Oh, and I dunno where I'll camp yet. I may likely be on the playa a week or so early to volunteer again, if that helps this group any.

e' bastante agora!

Axé!

- Pingüim

are you part of the group that performs before the man burns and then drums right after?

we'd love to have you stop by!

i think samba and the spirit of the music is all inclusive and would like to share it all around... by teaching people some basic moves it'll allow them dive into the music even more...

i ran across sunset samba ( i think its them ) a few years ago but never heard anything happening until the night of the burn, and then it was watching a performance... i felt a little distanced by it... do you play at other times?