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Addresses to practice or learn samba:

• Where to play? Where to dance? Associations, bands, schools, teachers that are open to non professionnals.
• Look for a professionnal band: the groups that you can only book.
• Mailing lists for sambistas.

Dedicated shops:

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

Various things to help one to progress:

• CD, videos, DVD and books: the references.
• Pedagogical tools: scores, clips, sound samples, softwares and links.
• Instrument tuning: how to choose a skin and to tune it...
• Samba accessories: how to choose or to make a tamborim stick, a surdo beater, a strap...
• Some other useful links.

What happens in France:

• Street events, carnivals, festivals.
• Indoor concerts.
• Samba workshops.
• Samba meetings.