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Nearly a century of Brazilian popular music will be revisited in the show. "100 years of Brazilian popular music", an attraction for the 2026 season of the Franz Cabaret Cultural Festival.
On stage, the singer Bárbara Damasio and the pianist Luiz Gustavo Zago They perform a repertoire that spans different periods of Brazilian music, from the 1920s to contemporary production. The group also includes... William Goe, on percussion, and Tie Pereira, on the double bass and guitar.
The setlist includes songs by composers such as Sinhô, Noel Rosa, Lupicínio Rodrigues, Dorival Caymmi, Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes, Gilberto Gil, Dona Ivone Lara, Paulinho da Viola, Chico Buarque and Adriana CalcanhottoAmong the selected works are Jura, Bar Conversation, Felicidade, Maracangalha, berimbau, Song of the Three Races, Someone told me. e All the Feeling.
The aim is to trace, through songs, the transformations of Brazilian music over the decades, observing changes in the poetics, melodies, and cultural imagination of the country.
The partnership between Bárbara Damásio and Luiz Gustavo Zago began in the show "Women of Samba", from the Brazilian Orchestra, and later gave rise to other works focused on the national repertoire. Bárbara is a singer, music educator, journalist and cultural producer and has been running the roda de samba for two decades. Barbara's Samba, created in Itajaí. Zago is a pianist, composer, and arranger, with a career dedicated to instrumental music and projects that reinterpret Brazilian music.
O Franz Cabaret Cultural Festival It is performed by Franz Cabaret, with executive production by Harmônica Arte e Entretenimento. The show is sponsored by the Municipality of Florianópolis, the Secretariat of Culture, Sport and Leisure, and the Franklin Cascaes Cultural Foundation of Florianópolis, through Municipal Law for Cultural Incentive No. 3659/91, in addition to cultural support from companies and residents who allocated part of their property tax to the project.
Start: 22/08/2026 18:30
End: 22/08/2026 20:30
Values: free admission.
Image credit: Barbara Damásio / Press release
