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| Paraty, Brazil |
Travelers who like to combine great music with sightseeing
in Brazil should take note. The 11th edition of MIMO, a free music
and film festival in Brazil, kicks off on August 29 and will take place in four
of Brazil's most beautiful and historic cities: Ouro Preto, Olinda, Paraty and
Tiradentes. Producer Lu Araújo launched MIMO in 2004 in Olinda, with the acronym standing for "Mostra Internacional da Música em Olinda." The event grew in
importance and added three more cities along the way. According to MIMO, more
than 630,000 people have attended the festival to date. This year, the scenery
will be spectacular and so will the concert lineups, featuring many notable
international and Brazilian artists.
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| Trilok Gurtu |
In terms of music, some of the 2014 highlights are Chick
Corea and the Vigil, Lau and the James Duncan Mackenzie Band (both from
Scotland), Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu, Mali's Bassekou Kouyate (who
plays the ngoni, a West African lute) and his band Ngoni Ba, Spanish
early-music maestro Jordi Savall, Jamaican singer Winston MacAnuff and French
accordionist Fixi and the European orchestra Chaarts.
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| Bongar |
Pianist-guitarist Egberto Gismonti, guitarist Toninho Horta,
percussionist Naná Vasconcelos and violincello player Lui Comibra, guitarist
Marco Pereira and accordionist Toninho Ferragutti, singer-violinist Renata Rosa,
pianist Hercules Gomes, the group Bongar from Olinda, saxophonist Zé Nogueira
and vibraphonist Arthur Dutra, pianist João Donato, and samba singer-composer Diogo
Nogueira and mandolin virtuoso Hamilton Holanda (performing their "Bossa
Negra" album) are among the Brazilian performers.
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| Toninho Horta |
In addition, the 2014 program includes 21 movies,
documentaries and short films. There are also free music-education classes and
a MIMO Instrumental Award. All events are free to the public and presented in
churches, squares and courtyards of these four cities known for their stunning
colonial and baroque architecture. The festival will run Aug. 29-31 in Ouro
Preto, Sept. 4-7 in Olinda, Oct. 10-12 in Paraty, and Oct. 17-19 in Tiradentes.
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| Renata Rosa |
For more information about the festival: MIMO.
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