Brazilian Music Day is coming up on September 7th 2012. The Official day will pay tribute to the largest collection and archive of Brazilian Music anywhere! We are lucky enough to have been invited to have the Afro:Baile Records catalog of music, be a part of the Brazilian Archive of ALL BRAZILIAN Music in the world. To find out more information, please visit: http://brazilianworldmusicday.wordpress.com/home/ 

ABOUT BARCH:
The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is creating Brazilian Music Day (Sept. 7, 2012) and the Brazilian Music Collection.  ARC is a not-for-profit music archive in partnership with Columbia University.

ARC’s mission is to collect and preserve all forms of music from around the world.  Based in New York City since 1985, ARC is the largest popular music collection in the world with over two million sound recordings.

In 2011 we launched our first “World Music Day” celebrating Islamic music and culture – please see: (www.muslimworldmusicday.com), this online site was accessed by more than 250,000 people worldwide on the initial date and still gets over 2,000 visitors daily.  The project was awarded the prestigious “Innovative Use of Archives Award” by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York.

Building on this success ARC is developing the first Brazilian Music Day (BMD).  BMD will be an online website to present, promote and explore the rich cultural heritage of Brazilian music of the past, present and future.   BMD will offer videos, histories, seminars, concerts, lectures, sound files, sheet music, album cover art galleries, essays, blogs, photos and links all highlighting the importance and beauty of Brazilian music as well as educate a global audience about
it’s many genres and facets.

A major component of BMD will be the database describing ARC’s Brazilian Music Collection and Brazilian recordings held by all archives and libraries around the world.  ARC is already the largest collection of Brazilian music outside of Brazil, with more than 5,000 recordings.  Our goal is to grow this collection of 78s, LPs and CDs in partnership with a cultural institution in Brazil.  Information on all Brazilian recordings in the world will be posted in a freely available online database for reference and research as part of the website.

ARC is seeking partners and sponsors to help us complete this important work and help present Brazilian Music Day on September 7, 2012, Brazil’s National Day.   Founding Partners include Columbia University Libraries, Gracenote and the Internet Archive.

The project director for Brazilian Music Day is New York based producer Béco Dranoff.  Our blog and website are coming soon, with a formal press release in Oct. 2011.  Please contact Béco or
ARC Director B. George at info@arcmusic.org or call: 212-226-6967.

What an Honor! For the 2nd consecutive year, our annual festival (presented by Afro:Baile) has been Nominated for "Best Music Festival" in Arizona! Each year, the Phoenix Newtimes holds the BEST OF Phoenix Awards Contest, and its up to Fans to Nominate and Award the Winners in the Readers Poll! We couldn't be more happier to have heard the news this morning that we were nominated again for best music festival! There are a lot of great festival that happen in the valley of the sun, but festival is one of the best! 

Please take a moment to help by Voting for us for "Best Music Festival"! We are listed in "Category number 107"! There are rules that apply, you must select at least 10 categories of your choice, but INCLUDE us as one of the 10! 

Just follow the link! http://polls.phoenixnewtimes.com/polls/phx/bestof2012/ 

Muito Obrigado! 

Rio de Janeiro's leading lady and Afro:Baile's diva of divas! hahah. The talented songstress Micheline Cardoso was featured in a 2 page spread in Brazil's Revista Agito Rio Magazine. The singer who is no stranger to publicity graces the pages with pure class and recognition of her hard work. Magazine Link (HERE) : (written in Portuguese)

Heading back to Madison, WI, DJ Seduce has been asked to sit down with Higher Ground Radio's world traveler extraordinaire Jonathan Overby! Jonathan hosts the long running Higher Ground radio program on WPR! The World of Music in Afro Roots, Latin, Brazilian, Zouk and more, the higher ground covers it all. DJ Seduce has spoke with Jonathan a few times over the years, and the conversations are always full with world beats, laughs, and good times. Make sure you tune as DJ Seduce asked to sit in on 2 live shows coming up September 19th and October 17th. Afro:Baile is set for a few new music releases, events and more between now and then, so we know there will be much to talk about! Tune In: http://www.wpr.org/higherground/ 

4th Winter Festival of Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil with Fred Jorge e os Maiorais - The Best of Black Music. Fred Jorge and crew get funky grooven on the notorious blues shaken Hit the Road Jack. (Ray Charles). Fred shows just how dynamic him and the band can get with a really cool rendition of this cult classic song! 

Looking back at our album covers, we have tip our hats to one of our first art designers at Afro:Baile Records. Artist and Photographer Alonso Murillo came up with the concept to bring together what has become our signature series at the label. When creating the idea, Alonso had the idea to put together two albums to make one. It would go on to be 2 our best sellers and most requested artwork to date! 

Celebrating the album artwork we have also included 2 Free downloadable singles (1 from each album). From the originally alum that started it all! Brazil:Sambossica 1. You can download the hit single "Maimborie" by Mr. Ze and from the Brazil:Sambossica 2 album, download the lead off track "Frases do luar" by Eliza Lacerda! Both songs Free and we'd love for you to share this with friends! 

Since the launch of our new website, we've been on full promotional go time! The New Afro:Baile website has marked a new day for us in a new direction that we have worked very hard to achieve! We love color! we love people! we love music! We love BRAZIL! And this new found refreshing vibe will hopefully introduce us to new fans, friends and lovers of Afro:Baile's Record catalog. 

Discover Afro:Baile music artists! For over 6 years we have combed through the various regions of Brazil to find some of the best independent and unsigned bands, djs, musicians, singers and producers to feature on our label. We started the Brazil:Sambossica compilation series to showcase some of these artists, there work, and there story!  The voices and songs you hear are both cutting edge, unique and modern. While we love the classic Brazil, we too love the future of where Brazil is heading! So visit our Discover Page and get to know some of these amazing artists!