Category: culture
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MAIOR É DEUS, GRANDE É JOÃO!
Support ‘Maior é deus grande é João’ João Oliveira dos Santos, Mestre João Grande (Master “Big John”), aged 85, the eldest living active capoeira practitioner in the world, is an icon of the traditional form of capoeira. Considered to be the master of masters by the capoeira community, he is a holder of secular knowledge…
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Music Class with Mestre João Grande
14 October 2017 – Music Class with Mestre João Grande Mestres João Grande and Môa do Katendê together in London · Hosted by Mestre Joãozinho Da Figueira Facebook Event Page Photos/Videos of the visit to Mojubá and of the event on Flickr Videos on YouTube On Saturday afternoon we had an unforgettable music class with…
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Mestre Cobrinha Verde
I’m copying this here, too precious to risk it disappearing! I found/copied it from here https://capoeira-connection.com/capoeira/2011/10/capoeira-and-mandingas-mestre-cobrinha-verde-1921-1983/. I’ve seen too many capoeira sites just vanish (usually because people don’t renew the domain name?) so this is just a backup! Mestre Cobrinha Verde If the facts in this book did not occur as Cobrinha Verde tells them……
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Mestre Traira’s album – Capoeira da Bahia
First Published 12 July 2017 Last Updated 03 March 2023 Mestre Traira’s album – Capoeira da Bahia Found this amazing www.capoeira-palmares.fr/histor/xaua_pt.htm document (Aug 2019 – seems the document is no longer there…) with photos and a lot of info on this album in Portuguese, French and English. saciperereuk · Mestre Traira -1963 – Capoeira da Bahia…
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O Pintinho
09 June 2017 This song has absolutely nothing to do with Capoeira – but it has a Forró connection and a lot of people who do Capoeira seem to get into Forró too. I have become obsessed with it since yesterday, while waiting for the UK election results… I occasionally look for nursery songs to…