Rock in Rio 2019: The great musical festival of Rio de Janeiro

After the success of the 2017 edition, Rio de Janeiro's City of Rock repeats itself as the place chosen for the celebration of the Rock in Rio 2019 festival. Once again, Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park, located on the shores of the Jacarepaguá lagoon, will host seven intense days of music, fun and energy.
Rock in Rio 2019 Dates


The Rock in Rio 2019 festival will be held from 27 to 29 September and from 3 to 6 October 2019. Two consecutive weekends full of great performances.

LINE-UP ROCK IN RIO 2019 - Rio Brazil

Drake
27|09 - Palco Mundo
Cardi B
27|09 - Palco Mundo
Bebe Rexha
27|09 - Palco Mundo
Alok
27|09 - Palco Mundo

28 | 09
Foo Fighters
28|09 - Palco Mundo
Weezer
28|09 - Palco Mundo
Tenacious D
28|09 - Palco Mundo
CPM 22 + Raimundos
28|09 - Palco Mundo

29 | 09
Bon Jovi
29|09 - Palco Mundo
Dave Matthews Band
29|09 - Palco Mundo
Goo Goo Dolls
29|09 - Palco Mundo
Ivete Sangalo
29|09 - Palco Mundo

03 | 10
Red Hot Chili Peppers
03|10 - Palco Mundo
Panic! at the Disco
03|10 - Palco Mundo
Nile Rodgers & Chic
03|10 - Palco Mundo
Capital Inicial
03|10 - Palco Mundo

04 | 10
IRON MAIDEN
04|10 - Palco Mundo
SCORPIONS special
guests
04|10 - Palco Mundo
HELLOWEEN
04|10 - Palco Mundo
SEPULTURA
04|10 - Palco Mundo

05 | 10
P!nk
05|10 - Palco Mundo
Black Eyed Peas
05|10 - Palco Mundo
H.E.R.
05|10 - Palco Mundo
Anitta
05|10 - Palco Mundo

06 | 10
Muse
06|10 - Palco Mundo
Imagine Dragons
06|10 - Palco Mundo
Nickelback
06|10 - Palco Mundo
Os Paralamas do Sucesso

The samba carnival 2019 is already playing in the streets of Rio de Janeiro

Brazil, Rio: 1.8 million tourists will visit Rio de Janeiro during this year's carnival.
The Rio de Janeiro carnival, the most famous in the world, is already warming up for the intense month of March that awaits it, which will have its apex on the nights of Sunday 03 and Monday 04 , March 2019 with the famous parade at the Sambódromo of the Special Group's samba schools.


Photo: hot brazilian carnival girl at Sambadrome Rio, samba parades


Rio de Janeiro Street carnival 2019 festivities:
By the end of the week, thousands of people are expected to dance and sing after musical groups such as the Banda de Ipanema, the Bloco das Carmelitas or the Orquestra Voadora in the streets of this Brazilian city where carnival is already taking place.

Considered by the Cariocas as "the biggest party in the world," the figures generated by the Rio de Janeiro carnival are the best proof of its unparalleled magnitude.

The municipal tourism company, Riotur, estimates that 1.8 million tourists will visit Rio de Janeiro during this year's carnival, which means that the total public, including cariocas and foreigners, should reach 5 million people, 10% more than last year.

According to the Rio de Janeiro Hotel Association, the occupancy rate during carnival week should be 90%.

Visitors should spend in the city about about 970 million dollars.

Rio carnival 2019: the King Momo elected

Wilson Neto is elected King Momo of Carnival Carioca for the 4th time

Photo: Rio Carnival King Momo 2019 and Rio carnival Queen

Wilson Dias da Costa Neto, 32, and Clara Paixão, 35, are Rei Momo and Rainha do Carnaval Carioca. The Court of revelry was elected at dawn this Saturday (26), with a party in the City of Samba, in the Port Zone. Deisiane Jesus and Viviane Ramos are the princesses.

The candidates for King Momo present were observed for their resourcefulness, sociability, ease of expression, friendliness, carnival spirit and mastery of the art of sambar. The candidates for the Queen were judged for their sociability, ease of expression, friendliness, carnival spirit, beauty of the face and harmony of physical lines, and mastery of the art of sambar.

Wilson won the title of "King Momo 1st and Carnival Unique 2019", a crown, a track, a scepter and R$ 30 thousand.

Wilson Neto returns to his post after leading the party for three years, between 2014 and 2016.
Clara, elected "Queen of Carnival 2019," won a crown, a track and also R$30,000. The second place, Deisiane, won the title of 1st Princess of Carnival 2019, a tiara, a track and R$ 22,500.

Samba music CD for Brazil Rio Carnival 2019 ready

Liesa releases official CD cover for Brazil Rio Carnival 2019
In closing the recording works of the CD of the samba schools of the special group- Rio de Janeiro Carnival 2019, the Artistic director Zacarias Siqueira de Oliveira concluded that his team and the associations had just anticipated in the studios of the Cidade do Samba -City of Samba-(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) a preview of what Will happen on the Carnaval Avenue. "They lacked fantasies and allegories, but the organization, the Claw and the participation of the communities were present. And that emotion was passed on to the techs too. The samba enredos CD is a show! "-guarantees the director, who also accumulates the Vice-presidency and the Liesa Heritage Board. The Rio samba carnaval album will reach the main stores nationwide in the second week of November 2018.

 This will be the 47 official album of Rio de Janeiro Samba songs produced by Zaca and the ninth recorded live in the Cidade do Samba - City of Samba, Rio de Janeiro. The Samba schools are already in the stars and have organized themselves with a number for the day of the recording. They've produced props, banners and special clothes. Some attended with over a thousand people to compose the choir of the carioca community.

Rio de Janeiro Sambadrome has a book over 30 years old

"Palco dos sonhos: 30 anos do Sambódromo": The book is a contribution of the  brazilian Magazine Rio Samba  and Carnival to the memory of the Rio de Janeiro samba schools. The project created by Maurício Mattos with texts by professor Felipe Ferreira, iconographic research by Fernando Araújo and visual programming by Fábio Corazza, tells the story of the Samba Passarelle from the first sounders who imagined a track specially created for the carnival parades to the last championship schools. The work highlights the main people who contributed to make the space created by Oscar Niemeyer, the great temple of samba art : the Sambadrome stadium, Rio de Janeiro.

The more than 250 photos that compose the work, many of the unpublished ones, were preserved in different sources, with emphasis on the photographic archive of magazine  Rio Samba and Carnival. The book is an indispensable tool for any research, participate or simply admire the biggest popular festival in the world: the carnival of the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro.

Rio Carnival 2018: Xuxa will participate in the street Block Spanta Neném

Xuxa's Show will happen after parade of the carnival bloco in Rio.

 Xuxa is among the attractions of the Block Spanta baby, which parades in Rio de Janeiro on the day 27/1/2018. The brazilian presenter will do a show at the party after the parade of the collective, at 5pm, in the Equestrian society -Sociedade Hípica Brasileira, in Lagoa.

The presentation promises to remember the successes of Xuxa as a singer, besides counting the presence of Paquitas. "Carnival is the time of year that the Carioca reveals its essence with more vitality. Often fleeing the standards taken as "normal" during the rest of the year. And as closely nobody is normal, we invite everyone to free themselves, celebrate the joy and spontaneity together with us, "said Chico Nogueira, director of carnival street bloco Spanta.

 Festa Pós-Desfile do Spanta (Post-Parade party of the Spanta block)

 When: 27 Jan 2018 from 5pm
 Where: Sociedade Hípica Brasileira Av. Lineu de Paula Machado, 2448 - Lagoa
Price: from brazilian RealR $100

Season 2018: Cruise tourists start arriving to Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro season 2018: Even going through a bad time, Rio de Janeiro continues to attract many tourists. For example, this month will be given the start for the 2017/2018 Sea Cruises season at Pier Maua (Rio de Janeiro harbor). On October 29th the International cruise Terminal of the wonderful city receives its first atraction: The International ship Oceania Sirena, a small craft and Luxurious with over 800 people on board. From there to the  April 29th, 2018, the operation no longer stops! There will be 94 arrivals, of which 23 are long-haul (international) cruises and 25 ships in total. In this period, more than 380,000 tourists are expected to take advantage of varied itineraries in Brazil.

Tourists are greeted at the cruise terminal located in the 4 and 5 warehouses of Pier Maua. These facilities are located in front of one of the light rails (VLT) stations, the "Ship Stop", and close to the external warehouse, where currently one of its walls houses the work "Ethnia" by Eduardo Kobra. There in the "external", buses and other vehicles are parked to make the transfer of visitors to various points of the city of Rio de Janeiro.