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Sep 08
2010
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Rio's little samba schoolsPosted by: Giselle on Sep 08, 2010   |
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Rio's little samba schools
A few months ago I posted up a link to video of some of the samba schools in Rio carnival's lower leagues. Some much better quality video is now beginning to appear on youtube.
These schools are parading in Intendente Margalhes, a street miles away from the Sambodromo. They have very few resources and little cash to stage their desfile but I find these Samba school parades extremely impressive, and also rather moving. Also certainly not little by any normal standards, just small compared to the super - escolas of the top leagues. They parade on the same night as the big, famous samba schools over in the Sambodromo, but I think I prefer these.
One day I hope to be able to go to Intendente Margalhes and watch these unsung jewels of carnival, live.
Copy and paste the following links into your browser to see what I mean:
Arrastão de Cascadura, judged 7th out of 14 samba schools in Grupo C 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5lIXsjQ0hw
G.R.E.S. Acadêmicos da Abolição - Carnaval 2010. Judged 6th position in Grupo C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b0hFKKDmMg&feature=channel
