Olodum Full Concert on January 22, 2023 at Quincas Berro d'Água, Pelourinho, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

<p>Led by Mestre Memeu (Bartolomeu Nunes Pereira), this Olodum concert took place from about 4:00PM-8:00PM at Largo Quincas Berro D'&Aacute;gua in the Pelourinho, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. I frequently reference this concert in my dissertation "Drumming in the Breaks of Blocos Afro: Ancestrality and Black Resistance in Salvador, Brazil." Specifically, I transcribe and analyze several of the breaks (breques). In the video, I tried to signal each moment I witnessed a percussion break (or drum cadence, in Western terms) by including a subtitle of the sequential number of breaks performed throughout the performance (i.e. break #55). Breaks typically veer away from Olodum's primary rhythms of samba-reggae, ritmo da avenida, merengue, and suingue to play a virtuosic break crafted for each song--or standard breaks used for many songs--and typically last between 2-8 measures. The total number of these breaks I witnessed in this 4-hour performance. In this concert alone, I counted 237 breaks. Compared to other ensemble types of Olodum, this concert takes place between percussionists and vocals only, who L&aacute;zaro Ara&uacute;jo (AKA Lazinho, an original founding member of Olodum) and Lucas DiFiori.&nbsp;</p>