Brasil Summerfest brings the latest currents of Brazilian music, art, dance, film, and food to New York City.
Brasil Summerfest 2025
Brasil Summerfest 2025, New York City’s summer Brazilian music and arts festival, is July 10-24, 2025. 🇧🇷
Many of these events are free. That’s cool, but it means you should go one or two hours early if you really want to get in.
Brazil Summerfest Samba Concert
Os Clavelitos, one of New York City’s American samba bands, plays Brazilian samba in English for Brasil Summerfest; at the Archway in DUMBO, Brooklyn; on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 6pm. FREE.
Band members are Brazilian, Japanese, and American. São Paulo Brazil has had a vibrant Japanese Brazilian community since the early 1900s. Early Japanese migrants worked on the coffee plantations. Later Japanese migrants where skilled workers. They are fully integrated Brazilians. It’s a beautiful mix.
Brasil Summerfest Film
“Os Afro Sambas,” a 2024 documentary about the making of the 1966 Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes live album, one of the most treasured Brazilian albums of all time, screens for Brasil Summerfest at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens; on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at 6:30pm. movingimage.org
Vinícius de Moraes (The Girl from Ipanema) was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, musician, and playwright is one of the founding fathers of Brazilian bossa nova, the blend of samba and jazz that took over the world in 1962. Baden Powell was a virtuoso guitarist and composer. “Os Afro Sambas” is considered one of the great Brazilian albums of all time.
Brasil Summerfest Samba Concert for Dancing
Gafieira Rio Miami plays big band Brazilian samba for partner dancing, for Brasil Summerfest and Summer for the City; in Josie Robertson Plaza (the main plaza) at Lincoln Center in Manhattan; on Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 6pm. FREE.
Latin music is generally dance music because we are community-oriented peoples. In traditional cultures, people usually dance alone or as one large group, but the first international dance, English country dance (contredanse, contradanza, square dancing), was a couples dance. Portuguese colonizers brought contradanza to Brazil where in Rio de Janeiro, it became samba de gafieira in the 1940s and 1950s. It looks like a blend between Argentine tango and Puerto Rican salsa with Brazilian rhythm. Legal! (“Cool” in Brazilian Portuguese)
Brasil Summerfest Brazilian Tropicália Rock
Os Mutantes
Brasil Summerfest 2024
Brasil Summerfest 2024 brings the latest Brazilian music, film, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens; from July 5-26, 2024. 🇧🇷
Lincoln Center, Manhattan
BRASIL SUMMERFEST, SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Rogê opens Brasil Summerfest 2024 with Brazilian música popular brasileira (MPB); at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇧🇷
DUMBO Archway, Brooklyn
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
French drummer and singer Stéphane San Juan plays his multicultural bossa nova jazz and MPB; at the Archway in DUMBO, Brooklyn; on July 11, 2024 at 6pm. FREE. 🇫🇷
Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, Manhattan
BRASIL SUMMERFEST & SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Gilsons (Gilberto Gil’s sons and grandsons), play their family’s Brazilian MPB, samba, and reggae fusion for Brasil Summerfest; at Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center on July 17, 2024 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). FREE. 🇧🇷
Gowanus, Brooklyn
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Nathan Dies plays Brazilian electronic MPB; at Public Records in Gowanus, Brooklyn; on July 19, 2024 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). FREE. 🇧🇷
Astoria, Queens
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
“Black Rio! Black Power!,” Emilio Domingo’s 2023 documentary about the influence of American soul music and its social commentary on 1970s Rio de Janeiro; screens for Brasil Summerfest at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens; on July 21, 2024 at 1pm. $15. 🇧🇷
Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Hugo Sanbone plays his Opera Nova fusion of Afro Brazilian jazz and classical forms from the Yemanjá Project, inspired by the Yoruba Great Mother and Mother of the seas; outdoors at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza; on July 24, 2024, at 7pm. FREE. 🇧🇷
East Village, Manhattan
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Bruno Capinan, from Bahia, sings his Brazilian MPB at Nublu in Manhattan’s East Village; on July 25, 2024 at 10:30pm (10pm doors). 🇧🇷
TBD
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
The Brasil Summerfest Closing Party, one of the great parties of summer in New York City; is at a location to be announced; on July 26, 2024. 🇧🇷
Brasil Summerfest 2023
SUMMERSTAGE
Marisa Monte sings MPB (Brazilian Pop Music), with openers Joana Amodeira & Fred Martins singing Brazilian fado (Portuguese folk music), and New York’s own Music From the Sole showing off tap dance’s relationship to Afro-Brazilian culture; at Central Park SummerStage; on Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 6pm (5pm doors). FREE! 🇧🇷
Get down to funky Brazilian beats at a Baile do Brasil dance party with DJ Mulú and DJ Tietta; at Nublu in Manhattan’s East Village; on July 7, 2023 at 11pm (10pm doors). From $22. 🇧🇷
SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Duda Beat blends MPB with global punk, funk and pop influences, with an opening set by DJ Mulú; at Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center; on July 9, 2023 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). FREE. 🇧🇷
SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Get down to a Silent Disco of Brazilian party classics with DJ Greg Caz; in Lincoln Center Plaza; on July 9, 2023 at 7pm. FREE. 🇧🇷
Zabelê (from the Novos Baianos family) sings MPB (Brazilian Pop Music) at The Archway in DUMBO, Brooklyn; on July 12, 2023 at 6pm. FREE. 🇧🇷
Luciane Dom sings her Afro-Brazilian blend of Afrobeats, urban jazz, reggae, and ljexá (candomblé sacred music); in the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center; on July 13, 2023 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇧🇷
Forró in the Dark play their urban forró for dancing; outside the Brooklyn Public Library (Grand Army Plaza); on July 19, 2023 at 6:30pm. FREE. 🇧🇷
“Narciso Em Ferias” (Narcissus Off Duty), Ricardo Calil and Renato Terra’s Caetano Veloso documentary, produced by acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (Central Station, Motorcycle Diaries), screens at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens; on July 23, 2023. 🇧🇷
Brasil Summerfest
Brasil Summerfest was founded in 2011. It has grown into the largest Brazilian music festival, outside of Brazil.