Workshop with Celso Machado

*** CANCELLED/POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ***

As a COVID-19 prevention measure, we will have to postpone this event indefinitely. Stay hopeful and keep healthy!

APRIL 5TH, 2020, VIC WEST Community Centre
521 Craigflower Rd, Victoria, BC V9A 6Z5

Celso Machado, one of the world’s best Brazilian musicians, will give two 2-hour workshops on Sunday, April 5th. Read below for details on activities and registration. There are 20 spots in each workshop, and registration deadline is March 20th, 2020.

Participation fee $30 per person for 2 hours.

1:30pm – 3:30pm INSTRUMENT MAKING & IMPROVISATION

Kids Ages 5 – 10

*No level/instrument requirement!
Activities:
Demonstration of how anything can be an instrument
Going outside to find sound making things in nature
Instrument building (rain sticks, счакерс, supplies provided)
Making an “orchestra” out of all the different instruments and improvising
Learning rhythms
Goals of the workshop: 
make an instrument to take home
learn to make sound from anything around you
play with others and improvise simple things with ease
learn to communicate with music
do a final “performance” on different intuitive instruments (shakers, rocks, sticks, frying pans, etc.)

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4:30pm – 6:30pm BRAZILIAN GUITAR WORKSHOP

Kids and adults (12 and up, younger kids with good playing ability are welcome)

Activities:
Improvisation
Learning Brazilian harmonies and rhythms
Graded level roles for beginner, intermediate, and more advanced players
Percussion roles for shy beginners (if they find guitar material hard but still enjoy the music)
Goals of the workshop: 
Learn about Brazilian music
Learn skills and patterns for improvising
Learn chord patterns-progressions
Make a semi-improvised piece of music together and learn to listen to each other (“jam together”)

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