Brazilian rhythms, warm harmonies, merging voices: Cantorias brings you to faraway places and forgotten times. The band’s vocalists, Lilian Vieira, Femke Smit, Anna Serierse and Nina Rompa, bring close harmony from Brazil. Traditional protest songs, famous sambas, and original songs, with a nostalgic hint of the seventies and eighties and yet fully contemporary.

‘Cantoria’ means to break out in song, and ‘Cantorias’ is a party where people come together to sing. Alongside four singers, the band consists of four musicians who know their way around Brazilian styles such as bossa nova en Música Popular Brasileira. This fall will see the release of the first album by Cantorias, which was recorded at WedgeView Studios.

Lilian Vieira vocals, Nina Rompa vocals, Anna Serierse vocals, Femke Smit vocals, Daniel Moraes guitar, Lucas Figueiredo Santana flute/percussion, Breno Virícimo bass/vocals, Udo Demandt drums/percussion