The Band
Now in our 15th year, MaSamba Samba School is Ireland’s premier Afro Brasilian music and dance collective. The group was created on the huge wave of enthusiasm following the 1994 Big Bang Festival at the City Arts Centre. Initially the group was set up as a team-building exercise for the staff of the arts centre, but demands for performances and workshops soon saw the group becoming independent and working in partnership with the City Arts Centre on numerous projects until the Centre closed the doors on their Moss Street premises.
Joining/Booking
MaSamba has always had an open-door policy of encouraging those with little or no previous drumming experience to attend our weekly community workshops. We also maintain a semi-professional performance group which is available to play a wide range of events.
maSamba do Mananha
We also have a highly successful youth wing maSamba do Mananha (maSamba of tomorrow), which has played at festivals and events throughout the country, recently travelling to Yorkshire and Belfast, as well as producing a CD of their own work in late 2004.