Join us for an incredible afternoon of Bossa Nova music at the beautiful Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield. Please feel free to bring food & drink to enjoy during the show.

Bossa Nova, which means “new wave”, is a style of samba music that was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Through the advent of Bossa Nova, Brazil was able to produce one of the most unique and enduring sounds in the history of Latin music.

Bossa Nova is distinct from other Samba subgenres, as it consists of a mixture of soft samba based on traditional Brazilian music and rhythms, American jazz, and a new style of Portuguese lyrics.

This concert is free and will be a memorable experience for music lovers of all ages.

Mariana Barcellos is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and music teacher who started singing Bossa Nova in her native town Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After moving to New York she started doing weekly gigs of Bossa Nova and Samba in NYC and then she moved to Woodstock, NY where she met skilled musicians who accompany her as she continues sharing the beauty of Brazilian music. 

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

This project is made possible, in part, through funding from Dutchess Tourism, Inc. and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.