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Un article de Samba en France.
Welcome to 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.
The French sambistas network is a community strong of near 350 groups that are listed on this web portal, in which about 100 persons are able to edit the website. A French-speaking mailing list with 330 members is also dedicated to share live information.
Please note that the links followed by a (( fr )) symbol lead to pages written in French.
Samba bands:
- 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 ))
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 ))
- "Samba en France" YouTube channel: videos of the samba baterias of Rio de Janeiro!
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 ))
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 ))
- Mailing lists for sambistas. (( fr ))
- Sambistas in the world: useful links. (( fr ))
Various materials in an encyclopedic fashion:
- Some dictionnary-like definitions.
- Short history of samba in France (as of 2019)
- The samba instruments depicted on Wikimedia Commons.
- The various group types.
- Samba: masculine or feminine gender?