MUSIC
A free festival in Piatã will feature folk and black music
‘Precious Frequencies’ will take place this Saturday late afternoon with only female artists
Published on September 28, 2024 at 05:59
Viviane Pitaya, creator of the stage Frequências Preciosas, will perform this Saturday in Piatã Credit: Rubens Shiromaro
Title: Music and production
Do you want the opportunity to hear a new sound, which rarely appears on the stages of Salvador? And, better yet, free? So, get ready for the first edition of the Precious Frequencies Festival, which will take place this Saturday (28), starting at 4pm, at Praça dos Coqueiros in Piatã, famous for being the home of the Rock Stage during the Salvadoran Carnival.
However, instead of rock, the venue will welcome reggae, MPB, rap, blues, batuko and electronic musicians. And there are important differences in the attractions: the programming consists entirely of black and folk singers and DJs. Artists such as Lunna Montty, Iuna Falcão, Jéssica Caitano, Viviane Pitaya and Miss Tacacá will be there.
This Saturday’s event is one of the products of the Precious Frequencies platform, which began to be created during the 2020 pandemic by Viviane Pitaya. Since then, the project has mapped more than 500 black and indigenous artists from different regions of the country, who are listed on the website frequenciaspreciosas.com.br. Festival attractions have been removed from this list.
“I realized that as a black and independent singer, I didn’t have a stronger connection with other black and indigenous artists in the same situation. I noticed that I didn’t know many black and indigenous singers and I decided to spend my time trying to get to know them. It was then that I realized I was mapping these amazing artists,” Viviane reveals.
The Precious Frequencies project, in addition to mapping singers, aims to promote the artists’ careers. This is what happened with Beatriz Tuxá, composer and native activist who will be performing this Saturday. The artist, whose show still had a daunting structure to play on a big stage, got help from the festival’s production team to put her show together, according to Julia Salgado, the event’s strategic director. “Beatriz has one of the most beautiful works we have come across on our reservation. But when we looked at her portfolio, we noticed that she still needed something more ‘regular’. So, we called a director to produce a thicker band and put it on.”
The audience will also have the opportunity to play the sound of the project’s creator, Viviane Pitaya, with her own compositions. “The public will hear and see the performance of my original show Truly, presented in a way never before seen by a live band. I listen to all kinds of music and the rhythms that people hear are a combination of reggae with jazz, piseiro with rockabilly, and so on: a genre I call ‘Bahian experimental indie pop’. Just listening to check it out”, says Viviane.
In the setting of the sunset, there will also be a Town Fair at Praça dos Coqueiros, which will offer food options to the public, as well as products from black and indigenous artisans. “The idea is ‘sunset’ by the beach. We wanted an open space, outside the central area, that would welcome families, including children, where the family could take a blanket to open up and sit down. That’s why we wanted this place”, said Julia.
Precious Frequencies Festival. Saturday (28), 4 p.m. Praça dos Coqueiros in Piatã. free
A streaming series based on texts by Xico Sá
Matheus Nachtergaele and Hermila Guedes star in Chabadabadá Credit: Victor Jucá / publication
The irony and inspiration of Xico Sá’s text reached streaming: the series Chabadabadá, based on the chronicles of the writer from Ceara, premiered on Globoplay + Canais. The production will also be seen on Canal Brasil, in its entirety, this Sunday (29th), at 6 pm, and Saturday, October 5th, at 10:30 pm. On TV, the six programs will be broadcast in marathon format, lasting three hours.
The production takes place in Recife and tells the story of the journalist and reporter Quincas (Matheus Nachtergaele), who was left by his wife Rita (Lalá Vieira) and finds him lost. While trying to recover, he meets Joana (Hermila Guedes), but he has a problem with letting himself go and facing his feelings.
During the process of changes and discovery, Quincas comes across stories of love and heartbreak of other characters – played by local actors, such as Mário Sérgio Cabral, Aura do Nascimento, Mohana Uchôa and Maycon Douglas. Each one inspires his history and awakens a reflection on the complexity of the relationships in the contemporary world that makes the main character to review his righteousness.
Matheus Nachtergaele comments on the series: “Chabadabadá is a big puzzle of people trying to learn love and it also shows how female and male roles being placed in the world today. Does being a more progressive guy guarantee a quality relationship? And the women? Did they achieve what they wanted? Do they want to give up their husbands? What men do they want? What’s left now for love? What is new love? I think ‘Chabadabadá’ is a dance of questions.”
Chabadabad. Available on Globoplay+Canais. Screening of all programs on Canal Brasil, Sunday (29), at 6 pm
Get emotional with Partiste, in the last show
Marcia Limma, protagonist of Partiste Credit: Spike Luu / publication
If you haven’t seen it yet, run to Teatro Módulo this Saturday (28), at 7pm, to see the play Partiste, with a text by Paulo Henrique Alcântara. This is the last show of the season, so enjoy! Partiste is the story of a family from a rural town which, as in “real life”, goes through a natural cycle and experiences the evacuation of their home: some die, others travel and some are there who marry and leave their parents. a house At the same time, the matriarch played by Márcia Limma gets older and has to learn to deal with these losses, as well as the conflict that her three children go through. In addition to the sensitive text by Paulo Henrique, which mixes humor and drama very well, the beautiful scenery by Ícaro Bittencourt (also director) and Zuarte Junior deserves to be celebrated. Also pay attention to the soundtrack, with MPB classics, such as Travessia and That Table, thoroughly inserted into the show. To laugh and cry. And the price is very affordable: R $ 60 (full) and R $ 30 (half). Still, was it expensive for you? Present your Clube CORREIO card and pay only R $ 36.
