Samba Elégua

On the dance floor that is. Come to the Toronto All-Stars Dance Riot, on Thursday, September 1, 2011 (jeepers, that’s tomorrow!) for a night of great music and community activism. Catch Samba Elegua, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, and Tyler Shipley and the Consumer Goods at the El Mocambo! This is a fundraiser to sent two university-aged [...]

Get the binoculars ready, it’s the August edition of PSK: Air! The Kensington Community Air Show. Okay, this year PSK Air does not actually coincide with the Air Show at the CNE, but we’ll still be as light as air! Catch Samba Elegua at the corner of Kensington Ave. and Baldwin St., in Kensington Market, [...]

Remember August 14, 2003, when all the lights and power went out? It’s time to come together and celebrate a communal moment when there is no need to consume electricity: the Blackout Anniversary Party, hosted by Streets are for People and Newmindspace. Catch Samba Elegua and a host of other entertainers on Sunday, August 14th, [...]

It’s the July edition of Pedestrian Sundays Kensington: PSK Water! Streams of Consciousness. Though the forecast calls for a sunny day, we will be paying homage to the wet stuff that sustains the world, water. Catch Samba Elegua at the corner of Kensington Ave. and Baldwin St. in Kensington Market and then follow the pied [...]

Rob Ford may not be at Pride this year but Samba Elegua will. Get a double dose of us at the 2011 Toronto Pride Parade, Sunday, July 3rd. First, catch us in the parade, beginning at 2:00 pm at Bloor and Church Streets. We will be marching with the University of Toronto LGBT contingent, closer [...]

Word to your mom, the beat’s about to go down in the streets again. It’s Pedestrian Sundays Kensington: Fire Summer SUNday and the beat is on! Sunday, June 26th, 6pm sharp. Downbeat for Samba Elegua’s performance hits at the corner of Kensington & Dundas, in Kensington Market. Bring your dancing shoes, bring your sunglasses, bring [...]

Join Samba Elegua for the Day of Delight, Clay & Paper Theatre‘s annual festival of love and all other things delightful! The Day of Delight features theatre, music, dance, installation and participatory works, including: Cardbordia, Clay & Paper Theatre’s beloved cardboard village, aerial dance, Punch and Judy’s puppet kissing booth, stilt dancing, storytelling, anonymous love [...]

Drummers and musicians come together for Toronto’s annual Muhtadi International Drumming Festival , which will celebrate its 12th anniversary on June 4th and 5th 2011. Toronto will be treated to international drummers representing cultures from Africa, North America, South America, Europe, India, Japan, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, South Korea, and the Middle East. Come [...]

Get a triple dose of your groove on at the Block Party! Presenting Samba Elegua and Maracatu Mar Aberto with special guests, The Heavyweights Horns . Also featuring DJs Jerus Nazdaq, Rollin Cash and Medicine Man. Make that, um, a septuple dose of groove — all in a special hideaway reserved for freaks, geeks and [...]

It’s that time of year again, when spring has sprung (well, we hope this year) and Samba Elegua busts out for the first gig of the spring season, at the Toronto Beaches Lions Easter Parade! Have you got your bunny ears ready? Come one, come all to the 2011 edition, Sunday, April 24th at 2 [...]