May Day jam in Brazil

The São Paulo Bluegrass Music Association in São Paulo, Brazil (centre of the South American Bluegrass Network) celebrated the opening of International Bluegrass Music Month with a bluegrass-and-Celtic jam session at the Olivo Bar. Thanks to our friend Erio Meili (above, in red shirt and banjo) for a link to the SPBMA website, where many more photos and soundbites from the session can be found.

Yesterday the SPBMA showed its breadth of musical sympathies further when Erio brought the Tirolli Quintet to his Titanic Harbor Stage, as recorded here.


Update - Erio adds: 'On Saturday 30 May we shall have a farewell party at the Titanic Harbor Stage when our fiddling and banjo-picking Glenn Shepard and his family will be moving from Campinas (São Paulo State) to Belem (Pará State). Hopefully there will be some fiddle tune sessions live at the Titanic Harbor Stage to upload early June on our Titanic Deviation Video page.'