In upstate New York, March is dreary season: a month made of mud, sleet, damp, and forlorn hopes for spring. In Brazil, March is Carnaval: riotous color, parades, wild costumes, and the infectious beat of the samba. After months of winter, it hardly seems fair.
In town to right the balance a little this Saturday, March 26, is Paprika, an all-woman band from Brooklyn that dishes out mighty helpings of Brazilian samba, Afro-Caribbean beats, and a pastiche of rump-shaking dance jams from around the globe. The band plays at the Roxbury Arts Center at 7:30pm, with a salsa lesson from Jacinto Jorge at 7.
Want a sneak preview? Here's a clip of Paprika's Vanessa Roe in Madison, Wisconsin -- another locale that could use some spicing up -- giving her all to "Nao Deixou a Samba Morrer." (Translation: "I Won't Let The Samba Die." She won't, either.)
Paprika at the Roxbury Arts Center, corner of Route 30 and Vega Mountain Road. Saturday, March 26, 7:30pm. Salsa lesson at 7pm. $15, $12 seniors. 607.326.7908.
