Addresses to practice or learn samba:

• Where to play? Where to dance? Associations, bands, schools, teachers that are open to non professionnals.
• Professionnal bands: the groups that you can only book. (( fr ))
• Mailing lists for sambistas. (( fr ))

Dedicated shops:

• Where to buy instruments and ear plugs in France? (( fr ))
• Costumes: where to find accessories, materials? (( fr ))
• Disk and book shops in France. (( fr ))

Various things to help one to progress:

• CD, videos, DVD and books: the references. (( fr ))
• Pedagogical tools: scores, clips, sound samples, softwares and links. (( fr ))

The sambistas' instruments and accessories:

• Instrument tuning: how to choose a skin and to tune it... (( fr ))
• Samba accessories: how to choose or to make a tamborim stick, a surdo beater, a strap... (( fr ))

What's happening in France in 2025:

• Festivals, meetings (( fr ))
• Carnivals (( fr ))
• Indoor concerts (( fr ))
• Samba parties (( fr ))
• Samba workshops (( fr ))

French sambistas share their knowledge:

• Site contributors: share your samba experience... (( fr ))
• Cultural aspects of samba. (( fr ))
• Association practice: how to start a group, how to manage a band... (( fr ))
• Brazilian community: samba links between France and Brazil. (( fr ))
• Sambistas in the world: useful links. (( fr ))
• classified ads for French sambistas. (( fr ))

Various materials in an encyclopedic fashion:

• Some dictionnary-like definitions.
• The samba instruments depicted on Wikimedia Commons.
• Différents group types.
• Samba: masculine or feminine gender?