Live Brazil 2009

Parade from Cuba Street to Southern Cross and performance at Southern Cross

Saturday 17th October 2009

Wow – what a day, and what an absolute privilege! As we played our funky rhythms up Cuba Street in the rain, we were joined by the percussionists of the band Tambolelê, direct from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, who supported us by playing their own household item instruments (spades and the like) for the entire parade and well into our performance at The Cross. Tambolelê were due to perform straight after us, so it was very cool that they lent us some of their time to play and sing with Funky Junk.

The show was awesome fun! We walked into Southern Cross playing Funk (the crowd went crazy); rocked it with a fabulous rendition of Obvious Child on ukeleles and percussion; did a samba reggae version of No Woman No Cry (with Sergio Pererê from Tambolelê deciding to get on stage and sing); sang a short round of Rosa with Isabella again; performed a funky version of Marcelo D2′s 1967 with our local up-and-coming Brazilian rapper, Gabriel; and had everybody shaking their fine boo-tays to infectious beats of merengue!

Here we are at the Cross, with Tambolelê member Sassá (at the back in the funny hat) helping us out playing cowbell and singing on stage…

Zé and Andrea’s axé songs got the crowd jumping…

An energetic audience gave us lots of enthusiasm… Thanks, we love you guys!

Things always get a little wild in the merengue…

Dancing around the cachaça “hot seat”. Too bad we only had one shot to give away!

Limboooooooooo!!!

Thanks to Paul Taylor and Jax for the cool pics.

Watch the action and hear the sounds Funky Junk on the video page.

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