Monday, October 5, 2015

October 11, 2015 3:00-6:00 PM Samba Workshop with Chris Quade Couto at Rittenhouse Soundworks

Samba Workshop with Chris Quade Couto in Philadelphia
Workshop content will be:
• Tamborim technique (1 hour)
• teamplay in a bateria + timing (2 hours)
When:
Sunday, 11th of October 2015
3:00pm-6:00pm

Where:
Rittenhouse Soundworks
219 West Rittenhouse Street
Philadelphia (Germantown)

Price: $25

Registration:
You can just show up at the workshop.


Chris Quade Couto began his career as a musician already as a child and with only 15 years, specialized in brazilian percussion. He participated in various intensive workshops in brazilian and cuban percussion, founded and directed the samba school Unidos de Colônia and played percussion in the Samba Funk band Muamba.
Nowadays he is a musical director of the famous Bloco X, singer and percussionist of the forró trio CAPANGAS - TRIO DE FORRÓ, percussionist of the Denise Krammer Trio and for more than 10 years he plays in the bateria of Unidos da Tijuca (winner of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro in 2010, 2012 and 2014) and other samba schools in Rio.
Chris works as a musician and teacher of brazilian percussion, as a producer of cultural events and is a member of the board of the town twinning association Köln-Rio e.V.
Chris is famous for his amazing samba workshops, with which he travels each year throughout the whole world. During the last years, he visited many countries, such as Japan, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Scotland, Serbia, Portugal, etc. and in spring 2010 even held a special workshop for the percussion students in the famous Conservatory of world music in Rotterdamm/Netherlands.
Chris is endorser for instruments of the brand Contemporânea.

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