L.A.’s official, annual party tradition, Brazilian Carnaval is the closest you can get to the excitement and rhythms of Rio and Bahia in Los Angeles. This dance and music concert features the Los Angeles Samba School who will inaugurate Carnaval with a rambunctious parade, SambaDá and Chalo Eduardo’s All Star Band of highly acclaimed international musicians performing Carnaval hits, plus an all night pageant of elite SAMBA DANCERS and CAPOEIRA, the Afro Brazilian martial art dance.
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival will add some tasty sounds to the musical gumbo of Jazz Fest with some spicy Latin sounds and world music.
It has selected a total of 160 films, representing 30 countries, 91 feature length films (narrative and documentaries) and 67 short films. The festival will hand out prizes for Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, Best Narrative Feature, and Best First Feature Film, as well as audience favorite awards at the close of the festival.
EVENT: “Fela!” Book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones Music and Lyrics by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Additional Lyrics by Jim Lewis Additional Music by Aaron Johnson and Jordan McLean Conceived by Bill T. Jones, Jim Lewis and Stephen Hendel Directed and Choreographed by Bill T. Jones Presented by Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Kick off the New Year with a spectacular celebration aboard the Queen Mary in the Long Beach Harbor. Party favors, Music, Dancing and a spectacular midnight fireworks show!
Legendary trumpeter, Hugh Masekela in concert Music general Presented by Irvine Barclay Theatre
“The Miss Latina Global and the Miss Teen Latina Global will create a bridge between non-Spanish speaking continents. It will bring down language barriers, because beauty knows no boundaries” Say’s Virgelia Villegas – Chairman and President of Virgelia Productions.
Here is the Brazilian event that mixes: Celebrity, Beauty, Fashion, Glamour, Live music and Culture. The 20th Annual MISS BRAZIL USA 2011 BEAUTY PAGEANT & AFTERPARTY!!!
Queen is a young woman who had a traumatic experience in her early years while living with her Uncle in the United States. She was raped by her uncle who later denied it when confronted by his wife, leading Queen to move out of the house.
