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The live music was lovely! Plenty of forr\u00f3, which is a genre of Brazilian music that made me feel like I was actually in Brazil. \ud83d\ude42 This music is a kind of tribute to the origins of Brazilian country music.<\/p>\n
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The typical dancing is well-known as quadrilha, which is similar to square dancing. I would guess that practically all Brazilians have danced quadrilha at least once in their lives. This typical dancing features couple formations around a mock wedding, whose bride and groom are the central attraction of the dancing.<\/p>\n
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Before the proper dancing, a comic role play may happen as well. It is all around a wedding.<\/p>\n
Normally, the actual wedding does not happen at the end. Some possible reasons for that are: the groom already has another family (his wife and children invade the wedding!), the groom is in love with the bride’s sister, the bride is pregnant with someone’s else child, and so forth. Often, the bride’s father wants to kill the groom at the end of the role play (believe me!), and the quadrilha starts in order to stop him from doing it.\u00a0There was no role play at\u00a0the Festa Junina in\u00a0Crystal Palace though. But there were the quadrilha for children and the quadrilha for adults.<\/p>\n
I particularly liked this Festa Junina because of the celebration of diversity that I could see there. There were plenty of Brazilians, but there were also people from Spain, Portugal, England and Russia. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
There was\u00a0also a lot of dancing, music and food, including plenty\u00a0of Portuguese cuisine. From past\u00e9is (rectangle-shaped thin crust pies with assorted fillings, such as beef, ham and cheese, and then fried in vegetable oil) to tapioca (which is made from starch extracted from cassava root). There were also churros (fried-dough pastry), and delicious churrasco (mixed grill) of pork, chicken and beef.\u00a0 Furthermore,\u00a0 there were past\u00e9is de nata (egg tart pastry) and other Portuguese pastries, which were absolutely delicious!<\/p>\n
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Would you like to take part in this beautiful celebration?<\/p>\n
There will be more\u00a0opportunities this year! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
The Arrai\u00e1 da Ebel will take place on the 2nd July at 3pm (All Soul’s Church, 3 Station Road, Harlesden, London, NW10 4UJ)<\/p>\n
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\nInt\u00e9 ano que vem! (See you next year!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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