Canta, Violino! – Sunday, February 2 at 4 pm
Canta, Violino! – Sunday, February 2 at 4 pm
Canta, Violino! is an instrumental Brazilian trio featuring original Brazilian choro and samba. The trio brings together several award-winning musicians: U.S. violinist Andrew Finn Magill, Brazilian percussionist Clarice Cast and Brazilian 7-string guitarist Edinho Gerber.
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Canta, Violino!
Andrew Finn McGill, violin
Clarice Cast, percussion
Edinho Gerber, Brazilian 7-string guitar
Choro was the first popular Brazilian music, emerging in the 1870s, and is the precursor to samba, bossa nova and modern popular Brazilian music. Renowned for its virtuosic musicianship and diverse rhythmic palette, it is one of the most exciting instrumental genres on the planet. Andrew Finn Magill who has been featured on NPR and PBS, moved to Brazil in 2014 to immerse himself in Brazilian choro music. Magill was signed to Ropeadope Records in 2018 for his original Brazilian music project He followed up that release in 2021 with the sequel Festa! Says legendary Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira (Miles Davis, Chick Corea, etc): “He can fool you into thinking he is from Brazil!”
Clarice Cast is a Grammy-nominated multi percussionist from São Paulo. She earned a Bachelor of Music from Northern Illinois University and a Masters in World Percussion from the California Institute of the Arts. She currently teaches World Percussion at College of the Canyons is an active performer, recording artist, and composer in Los Angeles and is a regular clinician at colleges, universities, and percussion festivals, including the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, California Brazil Camp, and Choro Camp New England. She is heavily influenced by her native Brazilian culture, and it has been her driving force to learn, perform, write, and teach these styles. Clarice proudly endorses Contemporânea Musical, Tycoon Percussion Instruments, TRX Cymbals, and Ahead Armor Cases.
Edinho Gerber possesses a rich musical vocabulary developed in the two countries where he was raised: the United States and Brazil. Navigating effortlessly between the genres of choro, jazz, samba, and blues, he is always in search of the intersection points within his dual cultural identity. After being a staple in the Chicago music as an in-demand sideman and playing with countless U.S. based Brazilian groups, including Som Brasil, Renato Anesi Trio, Bossa Tres, A Cor do Brasil, and leading the samba-jazz group Zona Sul, he returned to Rio de Janeiro for many years, dove even deeper into Brazilian music and joined up with Rogerio Souza to form Duo Violão. He recently returned to the US where he leads his own groups, performs with singers Ana Everling and Dill Costa, released Benjamim e Edinho an inventive cross-cultural collaboration with Ben Lamar Gay, and tours regularly with Duo Violão.