Afro:Baile is pleased to announce: 
We have joined the promotional team at the always amazing Scottsdale Center of Performing Arts to help get the word out for an amazing evening of Brazilian Dance and Culture! DANCE BRAZIL is one of the most sought after Dance companies and theater performance pieces to hit the stage in years! 

Here's what the NY Times had to say - “… DanceBrazil rolled through town with its crowd-pleasing style of high-octane, high-flying, pelvis-swiveling choreography. And let’s not forget the revealing costumes: the phrase “six-pack abs” doesn’t begin to do these folks justice. –The New York Times 

About DANCE BRAZIL:
Under the direction of Jelon Vieira, New York-based DanceBrazil has thrilled audiences around the globe with its dazzling artistry and unique fusion of Afro-Brazilian movement, dance and Capoeira, the daring martial-arts dance that evolved in colonial Brazil as a means of fighting enslavement. 

The limited engagement is set for only 2 performances here in the valley. Thursday April 26th and Friday April 27th. To get your tickets and more info please visit the Scottsdale Center Of the Arts Box Office at:

GET TICKETS HERE: http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/event.php?id=773 

BRAZILIAN BLEND! (on Fred Jorge's new album)
Afro:Baile records has the answer if you want to discover the funky samba soul side of the Brazilian music culture as they just released this self titled CD of Fred Jorge E Os Maiorais. A mix of soul, funk, samba, afrobeat and hip-hop are the spicy ingredients for a perfect hot summer evening, an invitation to dance and cool down with your favorite ice cold beer !  Link:  http://www.brazilianblend.nl/ 

News Update! 
Afro:Baile's own DJ Seduce host a weekly event called "Latin Eclectic". The Friday (early evening) event just moved the hours to 7:00pm - 10:00pm. Since the vibe has been live for the late night crowd, all hands were on to move the event back an hour to hold party patrons on the global vibe. The night is free to attend, happy hour till 10pm and music by DJ Seduce, spinning the best in South American groves. 

Micheline Cardoso e Martinho da Vila na TV Garagem do Faustão.

Martinho da Vila relembra parceria com garagista Micheline Cardoso.
Cantora foi backing vocal do músico e hoje faz sucesso até na Europa

O cantor Martinho da Vila aproveitou uma pausa na gravação de seu novo disco para apresentar uma cantora que promete agitar as rádios de todo o Brasil. O nome dela é Micheline Cardoso, uma carioca cheia de suingue que conquista cada vez mais fãs no Brasil e no mundo. Isso mesmo! A cantora faz sucesso na Europa e no Canadá.

Micheline contou que conheceu Martinho quando participou, como backing vocal, do álbum "Do Brasil e do Mundo", que o sambista gravou em 2007. "Eu pensava que ela era só mais uma vocalista, uma coisa meio bossa nova. Mas quando ouvi seu disco, fiquei apaixonado", declarou Martinho.

A cantora já gravou quatro álbuns e participou de discos e shows de personalidades da música como Tim Maia, Geraldo Azevedo, Elba Ramalho, Nando Reis, Bebeto e Zé Ramalho. Ela também venceu a Parada da Garagem no dia 9/03, conquistando uma legião de fãs que somaram 59% dos votos a favor do clipe da música "Made in Brasil".

Ana Paula da Silva live at Cafe Hahn! 

The album has been out less then a week! and already, in radio rotation on Seattles Finest Brazilian Radio station! RAIZES! Thanks to our dear friend(s) Sharon-Stevens and Samia! Love you 2! Thanks for sharing our music, and supporting Brazilian Culture!  

Link: http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=24193

FRED JORGE E OS MAIORAIS:
 If you needed a little Brazilian Funk and Soul in your life! This is it! Taking it back to the retro 70's feel; a la James Brown meets Al Green in Bahia at roller rink! New comers with old souls of Blackness have risen to conquer the world! Meet Fred Jorge e os Maiorais! There self-titled debut album is out TODAY! March 20th! 9 songs (PLUS! 1 hidden Song = 10 total). The self-titled album is nothing less then pure Brazilian grooves mixed with Funkyness, soulfuness, and steady beats and rhythms to keep your night moving! Available Today in our SHOP!! <<== Click To Buy!  

It’s been a long time coming, with plenty to brag about along the way; but Gustavo Dantas, one of our busiest GMA members, has now made his longtime dream come true: After 12 years at world-renowned professional MMA stable Arizona Combat Sports, he is finally teaching at a location exclusively for Jiu-Jitsu. And the best part: it’s all his! 

“I focused a lot on building champions, which I love doing and will continue to do,” Dantas tells GRACIEMAG.com—the attendance sheet for his gentle-art class including the likes of TUF 8 champion Ryan Bader, TUF 7 runner-up CB Dollaway, UFC middleweight contender Aaron Simpson, former WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner, and competition-Jiu-Jitsu medaling monsters Steve Rosenberg, Kristina Barlaan and the Broadnax twins, Christian and Christopher.

“But I want more,” he explains; “I want to help people change their lives through Jiu-Jitsu the same way it did for me. … It doesn’t matter if their goals are sports related or not; they have to go after their goals, and martial arts can help you to develop the discipline, perseverance, and dedication that you need to achieve anything you want.”

The leader of the US wing of MMA-heavy team Nova União and vice president of the Arizona State Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (AZBJJF), Dantas has been long been involved in both mixed martial arts and the gentle art. And though his tenure at Arizona Combat Sports did bear fruit in the purely Jiu-Jitsu department—besides his team having produced 20 World Championship medalists and regularly placing at top spot in the state of Arizona, his Arizona International Open, Arizona State Championship and Southwest Classic tournaments are major destinations for competitors from without the state—, he feels his MMA obligations have been steering him off course:

From left, ex-UFC fighter Thales Leites, Dantas and Nova União team leader André Pederneiras

“The reason why I came to the United States was to teach Jiu-Jitsu for a living. I really like MMA,” begins the Rio de Janeiro native, “so when my instructor André Pederneiras needs any help with fights in the US, I meet up with him and do what I can to help out. But I love Jiu-Jitsu, and that is what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life!” painting a more detailed picture of what led to the new Tempe, Arizona academy on 1848 E. University Dr.

Now fully functional and operating since the 5th of March, GD Jiu-Jitsu Academy is an ample, 4500-square foot facility complete with a shop, lounge and children’s play area, men and women’s restrooms with showers, changing stalls, private room for introductory and private lessons, and a 1600-square foot mat area with a 46″ LED flat-screen TV. “I’d been promising my students that I was working on a better and more efficient way to share tournament footage with them. I used to bring my little laptop to class. … But now I have this large flat-screen. … When I show my students a high-level, world class competitor landing the techniques I am teaching on another high-level, world class competitor, I’m showing them that not only are the best in the world able to use those techniques; I’m showing them that they can can use those techniques and have great success with them,” he says in justifying the investment.

And with all investments come risks. But from Dantas’s own words, it would seem that the very risk he is taking in opening the academy is itself one of the lessons he will be teaching there: “I read once that dreams take time, patience, sustained effort and a willingness to fail, if they are ever to be anything more than dreams. And that is what I try to instill in my students.

For further information on the new Nova União/GD Jiu-Jitsu facilities in Tempe, Arizona, visit www.gdjiujitsu.com.

Check out some photos of the new facilities:  http://www.graciemag.com/en/2012/03/new-nova-uniao-academy-in-arizona-a-dream-come-true/ 

FREE DOWNLOAD TUESDAY! 
We have selected 6 songs from our catalog for you to download free! Bi-Weekly we will be offering new singles, albums, giveaways and more! We want to give back to all the fans around the world!