Gigs:
THE GIRL FROM MINAS (Alda & Friends)
featuring Alda Rezende featuring Nenem, Aline Calixto and Martin Buscaglia Saturday, 24th September
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
visit: http://www.melbournerecital.com.au/whatson/buytix?perfid=3095
Renegado and Choc Quib Town Saturday, 1st October The Hi- Fi Melbourne visit: http://www.thehifi.com.au/gig/pura-vida-road-show-hip-hop-special-featuring-chocquibtown-col-2011-10-01/
The Pura Vida Latin Music Festival is a celebration of the diversity, eclecticism and sophistication of contemporary urban Latin culture. More than ten bands will be performing at major venues and festivals around Australia. It starts on 17th September in Canberra and, after stops in Melbourne and Brisbane, finishes in Sydney on 6th October with artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela performing at prestigious venues and festivals around the country.
The road show makes a few stops in Melbourne with performances at the Melbourne Recital Hall (September 24) and The Hi-Fi (October 1).
“Pura Vida Latin Music Festival was born to offer Australia an opportunity to explore one of Latin America’s best ready for export product, an amazing catalogue of music… says Frank Madrid, producer of the road show. We wanted to stay away from stereotypes and present a wide array of artists and genres, as eclectic and diverse as possible.”
For those interested in a truly unique experience, the Festival presents the dramatically unusual voice of Alda Rezende to the Melbourne Recital Centre on Saturday 24 September. She will be accompanied by master of percussion Esdra “Nenem” Ferreira to regale us a mix of Jazz, Bossa Nova, Samba and Pop and a special appearance by Aline Calixto, who is regarded as one of Brazil’s most promising new artists. These Brazilian musical ambassadors will be supported by la crème de la crème of Australasian jazz: double-bassist extraordinaire Jonathan Zwartz, prodigious pianist Marcello Maio, celebrated saxophonist Lucien Johnson and guitarist extraordinaire Alistair Campbell. Uruguayan boy-wonder Martin Buscaglia, who is some kind of South American Prince with luscious candombe-funk music that is gentle, percussive and very groovy, like Beck in pure Tropicalia style will open this amazing celebration of Tropicalismo. 
In an effort to show how eclectic Latin music is Pura Vida will bring two of the hottest urban acts in the continent, ChocQuibTown and Renegado. Afro-Colombian Latin Grammy Award winner’s Choc Quib Town, with their sleek and often rapid fire brand of tropical style of hip-hop and Brazilian hip-hop sensation Renegado and his smooth mix of Reggae, Maracatu, Cuban music and Samba with North American Rap will perform at Melbourne’s temple of cool, The HI-HI on October 1st, accompanied by local band Madre Monte and MC Sebastian Seba. 
If music lovers need more reasons to be part of the Pura Vida Latin Music Festival, if they buy their tickets through Moshtix, they will be in the draw to win a truly amazing experience of Machu Pichu, Peru. Two very lucky Pura Vida Latin Music Festival-goers that can identify five icons from the Festival’s image of Carmen Miranda’s head will be able to continue their Latin American experience with an Intrepid Travel tour to the extraordinary Machu Pichu.
