Brasil Summerfest 2024

Brasil Summerfest 2024 brings the latest currents of Brazilian music, art, dance, film, and food to New York City.

Brasil Summerfest 2024

Brasil Summerfest (Viacheslav Dubrovin/Dreamstime)

Brasil Summerfest 2024 brings the latest Brazilian music, film, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens; from July 5-26, 2024. 🇧🇷

Lincoln Center, Manhattan

BRASIL SUMMERFEST, SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Rogê opens Brasil Summerfest 2024 with Brazilian música popular brasileira (MPB); at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇧🇷

DUMBO Archway, Brooklyn

BRASIL SUMMERFEST
French drummer and singer Stéphane San Juan plays his multicultural bossa nova jazz and MPB; at the Archway in DUMBO, Brooklyn; on July 11, 2024 at 6pm. FREE. 🇫🇷

Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, Manhattan

BRASIL SUMMERFEST & SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Gilsons (Gilberto Gil’s sons and grandsons), play their family’s Brazilian MPB, samba, and reggae fusion for Brasil Summerfest; at Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center on July 17, 2024 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). FREE. 🇧🇷

Gowanus, Brooklyn

BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Nathan Dies plays Brazilian electronic MPB; at Public Records in Gowanus, Brooklyn; on July 19, 2024 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). FREE. 🇧🇷

Astoria, Queens

BRASIL SUMMERFEST
“Black Rio! Black Power!,” Emilio Domingo’s 2023 documentary about the influence of American soul music and its social commentary on 1970s Rio de Janeiro; screens for Brasil Summerfest at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens; on July 21, 2024 at 1pm. $15. 🇧🇷

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Hugo Sanbone plays his Opera Nova fusion of Afro Brazilian jazz and classical forms from the Yemanjá Project, inspired by the Yoruba Great Mother and Mother of the seas; outdoors at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza; on July 24, 2024, at 7pm. FREE. 🇧🇷

East Village, Manhattan

BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Bruno Capinan, from Bahia, sings his Brazilian MPB at Nublu in Manhattan’s East Village; on July 25, 2024 at 10:30pm (10pm doors). 🇧🇷

TBD

BRASIL SUMMERFEST
The Brasil Summerfest Closing Party, one of the great parties of summer in New York City; is at a location to be announced; on July 26, 2024. 🇧🇷

Brasil Summerfest 2023

SUMMERSTAGE
Marisa Monte sings MPB (Brazilian Pop Music), with openers Joana Amodeira & Fred Martins singing Brazilian fado (Portuguese folk music), and New York’s own Music From the Sole showing off tap dance’s relationship to Afro-Brazilian culture; at Central Park SummerStage; on Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 6pm (5pm doors). FREE! 🇧🇷

Get down to funky Brazilian beats at a Baile do Brasil dance party with DJ Mulú and DJ Tietta; at Nublu in Manhattan’s East Village; on July 7, 2023 at 11pm (10pm doors). From $22. 🇧🇷

SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Duda Beat blends MPB with global punk, funk and pop influences, with an opening set by DJ Mulú; at Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center; on July 9, 2023 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). FREE. 🇧🇷

SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Get down to a Silent Disco of Brazilian party classics with DJ Greg Caz; in Lincoln Center Plaza; on July 9, 2023 at 7pm. FREE. 🇧🇷

Zabelê (from the Novos Baianos family) sings MPB (Brazilian Pop Music) at The Archway in DUMBO, Brooklyn; on July 12, 2023 at 6pm. FREE. 🇧🇷

Luciane Dom sings her Afro-Brazilian blend of Afrobeats, urban jazz, reggae, and ljexá (candomblé sacred music); in the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center; on July 13, 2023 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇧🇷

Forró in the Dark play their urban forró for dancing; outside the Brooklyn Public Library (Grand Army Plaza); on July 19, 2023 at 6:30pm. FREE. 🇧🇷

“Narciso Em Ferias” (Narcissus Off Duty), Ricardo Calil and Renato Terra’s Caetano Veloso documentary, produced by acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (Central Station, Motorcycle Diaries), screens at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens; on July 23, 2023. 🇧🇷