September 25 7:00 pm
How are Washington DC and Brazil’s Salvador Bahia connected? All is revealed in Afrocidade, a unique, original, and entertaining performance exploring in music, song, dance and stories, the shared culture and history between these seemingly very different places.
Powered by a 10 piece ensemble of musicians, vocalists, dancers and narrators, Afrocidade interprets the music of popular Bahian artists like Gilberto Gil, Olodum, Caetano Velloso, Luedji Luna and more to recount the explosion of Black consciousness in Salvador from its onset with the Samba ensemble Ile Aiye in 1974 to the present.
A musical production that is more than a concert and not quite a musical, Afrocidade is a real time cultural bridge, an elegy to ancestry, a revelation of erased history and a clarion call for a better, more empathetic future.
Free admission — registration is required.
Ages: All Ages
Runtime: 2 hours including a 15 minute intermission
Content Warning: This performance contains mild references to violence.
