Fri 17 Oct 2025, 20:00 – Mario Bakuna & Edmundo Carneiro present: Where Rio de Janeiro Meets Bahia 

Mario Bakuna on acoustic guitar and vocals
Edmundo Carneiro on drums

Duo performance in which Mario Bakuna and Edmundo Carneiro present the repertoire of their album 'Where Rio de Janeiro Meets Bahia', recorded in Paris, which brings together the Afro-Brazilian rhythms of the Recôncavo Baiano and the charm and subtlety of Bossa Nova. The show is a trip to Rio de Janeiro, the cradle of Bossa Nova, and to Bahia, the city that best represents the powerful African influence in Brazilian music. The concert integrates the rhythmic roots of Brazilian music and its sophisticated harmonies in a beautiful duo show that celebrates great Brazilian composers such as Dorival Caymmi and Tom Jobim. Mario and Edmundo promise to transport the audience to a place where the real and the imaginary are experienced and enhanced by poetry and music.

video samples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFTu8GBFocE

Mario Bakuna is a London-based Brazilian composer, singer and guitar player with twenty years of professional experience.  Over the past few years, he has emerged as a leading figure and a reference in England’s Brazilian Jazz / Bossa Nova Music scene. Mario has extensively performed in Europe and beyond at distinguished venues and festivals alongside artists such as Jean Toussaint, Liam Noble, Ricardo dos Santos, Cacau Queiroz, Edmundo Carneiro, Alain Jean Marie, Dudu Penz, and Filó Machado.

The concerts of his 2 albums 'Where Rio de Janeiro Meets Bahia' and 'Brazilian Landscapes' toured 18 European countries, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, Madagascar, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, with great acclaim.

“Mario Bakuna, a sparkling guitarist, plays with palpable feeling - his virtuosic fluency on the fretboard is controlled and flourishes are perfectly placed. His voice has a texture like heavy cloth”. (Songlines Magazine)

“Mario Bakuna, a man who exudes music. (…) ‘vocals’ doesn’t begin to do him justice: his expressive range and the precision with which he was able to deploy it was truly the band’s fifth instrument.  (…) And he did this while playing guitar with precision and finesse. (…) his solos were a further source of amazement, his technique somewhere between finger-picking style and classical. His solo introduction to a Baden Powell number made a hash of any attempt at a definition.” (The Whitman Review, Wakefield Jazz)

Edmundo Carneiro is a Brazilian percussionist based in Paris for over 30 years, Edmundo Carneiro toured over 66 countries and worked with international music figures such as Baden Powell, Tânia Maria, Steve Gadd, Ana de Hollanda, Rosinha de Valença, Antony Jackson, Monica Passos, Chucho Valdes. Percussionist of his own style, Carneiro also experienced electronic music by working with several artists and DJs such as Saint-Germain, Next Evidence, Bob Sinclar, Schazz, Rive Gauche, Charles Schilling, Stéphane Pompougnac.

“More than a percussionist, Edmundo Carneiro is a magician”  (Maria de Medeiros)