The FUNKY BUTT CLUB goes LATIN
Friday 25 February 2011
Star & Shadow Cinema
Stepney Bank
Newcastle 
Doors: 7pm
Film: 7:30 pm
Dancing: 9.00pm
Entry: £5 / £3.50 concessions

BRASILIERINHO

An extra special treat for early birds is Mika Kaurismäki's film Brasileirinho.
The documentary is a journey to the heart of southern Brasil, into the small alleys where they play "choro", the traditional music. 

Choro is Brazil’s original urban music -  born of a mixture of European dance and Afro-Brazilian rhythm in the late 1870s. 

Played on mandolin, tambourine, guitar, clarinet and trombone, Choro is a jazzy, folksy flamenco and was hugely popular in the first half of the twentieth century before being displaced by bossa nova in the ’60s. However, much like flamenco in Spain or fado in Portugal, it enjoyed a politically motivated government-sponsored resurgence in the late ’70s and continues to thrive today.

Brasileirinho: www.brasileirinhothefilm.com

Sounds of Seduction: www.soundsofseduction.org

Star & Shadow Cinema: www.starandshadow.org.uk

TRAILER: http://tinyurl.com/6cya3x8