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Volume 17, Issue 39
Sunshine Coast, British Columbia • www.thelocalweekly.ca • Thursday, September 26, 2019 Check Your Garbage Page 3
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A Festival of Fusion and Forro
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Fusion is the theme of this year’s Sechelt Arts Festival, and one of headliners is Forro Do Cana, above, described as Vancouver’s premier purveyor of forro. Forro is the music and dance of northeastern Brazil. One theory on the origin of the name is that forro is a derivative of a word meaning “great party”; another theory has it as a derivative of the English expression “for all”. If you combined the meanings – which, of course, you can’t since they are competing theories – you would have a “great party for all”. Which is a pretty good description of a two-week arts festival. In any case, Foro Do Cana will provide the closing performance of the Sechelt Arts Festival Oct. 19. The band, from the left, is Steve Charles (accordion, vocals), Sara Magal (vocals, percussion), Serena Eades (violin/rabeca, vocals), Phil Belanger (drums) and, on top of the couch, Mario Silva (seven-string guitar, vocals). See Anna Nobile’s column, page 12. ADAM PW SMITH PHOTO
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