Following a show at Casa Brasil, Somerset House, a group of sambistas from the famous Portela samba school in Rio came down to Inverness Street Camden and played in the street for a while. Not far away at the Camden Town tube entrance there were Friday night buskers, one beatboxing with a small PA and another playing Didgeridoo with a Djembe and a Foot-cymbal. The Portela guys were singing, rapping and making beats with a couple of tan-tans, repeniques and tamborim. One tried playing the ukulele I had with me, but comparing it to a cavaquinho, did not much like the tuning or the nylon strings - nevertheless we all sang a few songs. With Danielle accompanying on vocal, I played a tune for Agnès who was to leave London for France after the Olympic Games. We discussed next Wednesday's Ukulele flash mob. Åke, an LSS sambista who was visiting as a cuiciero for the Olympic closing ceremony, played a version of Pega no Ganza - Festa Para um Rei Negro on the ukulele.
Afterwards, Jeremy Shaverin joined the group of Portalensas in the basement to jam with the Cavaquinho - the Brazilian ukulele...
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