Choro Noho 2025
Saturday, June 28
Helen Hills Hills Chapel, 7:30
123-125 Elm Street Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
$30 advance / $35 day-of-show
Welcome, and thanks for your interest in Choro Noho 2025, brought to you by Choro Camp New England!
If you are new to choro, you are in for a treat. The genre began to take shape in mid-19th century Rio de Janeiro, where the music of the Portuguese court met that of Afro-Brazilians. Here in the US, a similar process gave us first ragtime, then jazz, and just as these genres are seen as prototypically “American”, so too is choro recognized as uniquely, exquisitely Brazilian.
Every year, Choro Camp New England brings chorões (that is, people who play choro) to the campus of Smith College for a week of study and jamming with masters of the genre. This concert will feature all the artists teaching at Choro Camp this year and serve as our grand finale.
You can learn more about all 11 of this year’s Choro Noho performers on the Artists page of this website. They have never come together in one place before — and likely never will again — so you can expect a great deal of spontanaiety at this concert. Some of them have performed together before in smaller groups, however. Below you can hear just two examples, featuring only half of the artists who will be on stage at Choro Noho 2025:
Alessandro Penezzi and Fábio Peron, who join us from São Paulo, have played together for years.
Below them, enjoy a video of Toca de Tatu from last year’s Festival de Choro de Paris. That group is based in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and all its members are on our staff this year.