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Wilson Town Square, Knox Building

Join us for a live performance by Brazil 716!

About Brazil 716: 

Via Rio de Janeiro and New York City come something new, exciting, and different for Buffalo’s music aficionados: real instrumental choro-samba with a modern twist, including originals and standards of choro, samba, and bossa. Brazil 716 consists of guitarist-composer Stephen Guerra and trio Rosa Boêmia.

In 2009, Guerra left his career in finance to study music full-time. Today, he performs and teaches choro around the US and Brazil and has played with Rogério Souza, Ronaldo Souza, Sungmin Shin, Tiago Souza, Eduardo Belo, Dennis Bulhões, Ami Molinelli, and Edinho Gerber. He regularly appears at universities, festivals, cultural centers, and music clubs, including the University of Louisville Guitar Festival, Northwest Jazz Festival, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo International Guitar Festival, Yale University, Georgetown University Friday Music Series, Friends of Vienna Concert Series, Pausa Art House, Jazz Forum Arts, and Boulder Guitar Society. His work has been supported by numerous competitive artist grants and composer residencies. He’s published two full-length albums and sheet music with Mel Bay, Guitar Chamber Music Press, and Bergmann Editions. He teaches music theory and the Choro ensemble at the University at Buffalo and lives between New York and Rio de Janeiro.

Rosa Boêmia (Ken Luk, bandolim; Bernardo Marcondes Rodrigues, guitar; Darien Lamen, pandeiro) specializes in Brazilian choro music. Originating in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro, choro is a popular instrumental music genre that began around the same time as samba. Contrary to its meaning “cry” or “lament,” choro is upbeat, joyous, and syncopated.