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Un article de Samba en France.
Welcome to the new version of the French Samba Home Page!
This page is dedicated to this kind of Brazilian street music and dance in France. It is aimed to promote sharing of ideas, resources, contacts and experiences, to promote a greater awareness of samba, and to make it known by all.
Please note that the links followed by a (( fr )) symbol lead to pages written in French.
Address book
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 ))
Tips and goodies
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 ))
News and events
What happens in France:
- Street events, carnivals, festivals. (( fr ))
- Indoor concerts. (( fr ))
- Samba workshops. (( fr ))
- Samba meetings. (( fr ))
Samba community, experience sharing
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 ))
History and definitions
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?