Choro Camp Concerts 2026
Thanks for your interest in this year’s concerts featuring the artists who will be teaching at Choro Camp New England in 2026! You’ll have two terrific options this year:
- On Sunday, September 27 our guest artists from Rio de Janeiro, Água de Moringa and Mariana Baltar, will be at Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity in Northampton for both a workshop (Introduction to Choro for Musicians) and a performance.
- On Saturday, October 3rd, the entire Choro Camp faculty will offer a grand finale concert at The Campus at Marlboro Music, in Marlboro Vermont.
Please read on for more information about both events and to get tickets.
Sunday, September 27
Bombyx, Northampton, MA
Workshop and Concert
TICKETS
Água de Moringa and Mariana Baltar
Workshop: Introduction to Choro for Musicians
10-1 | $25 advance
Are you a choro-curious musician? If so, here’s a chance to learn more about the genre and try your hands at playing choro with the expert guidance of Rio-based, Água de Moringa. The group is coming to the US to teach at Choro Camp New England in Marlboro, VT. They are offering this 3-hour introductory workshop at Bombyx before leading students of the style in that longer, deeper dive. MORE INFO HERE.
Choro and Samba Concert
4 pm | $25
Based in Rio de Janeiro, Água de Moringa has been together for over 35 years. While known for their versatility, the group’s foundation is in traditional choro, a fact reflected in their instrumentation: 6 and 7-string guitars, cavaquinho, pandeiro, bandolim and clarinet. With ten albums to their credit, “The Água” has performed and taught throughout Brazil as well as in France, Portugal and Colombia. Vocalist and dancer Mariana Baltar performs frequently with the group, and in 2019 recorded an entire album with them, Os Arcos – Paixão e Morte, a tribute to composer Aldir Blanc. This afternoon’s concert will include both choro and samba of a caliber rarely enjoyed in the US.
Saturday, October 3
The Campus at Marlboro Music
$25 advance / $30 day-of
Choro Camp Faculty Concert
It has become a tradition for Choro Camp New England to wrap up with a concert featuring all the artists on our teaching staff. This year that distinguished group includes:
Água de Moringa and Mariana Baltar
Anat Cohen (clarinet)
Vitor Gonçalves (accordion)
Skye Soto Steele (violin and rabeca)
CCNE will be held at a new venue in 2026, The Campus at Marlboro Music (about 15 minutes west of Brattleboro, VT) and this concert will be hosted there as well. While some of these artists have worked closely for decades, others will be connecting -- or reconnecting — over the course of our week together. That makes the concert program delightfully unpredicable, and the spontaneity quotient high. Both choro and samba are best shared in a relaxed atmosphere among friends, which is exactly what we have on order for this evening. You’re invited to join us.