all the best for you this is a thing already so so yeah we brought this goodies year from their all brazilian they come from the tradition of president drumming but they're all made in america actually so it has a little bit of a better quality come on over this way hi guys so i'm this is a bimbo it is a internet from brazil that we used to play cop weirdo with a brazilian martial arts and it has three sounds pressed on this steel string that you can go and then there's the high pitch one which is why you also put it on your stomach so you can  go right someone once told me that that that instrument was fashioned after a bow and arrow oh and i don't know that that's true but that's kind of the way history where you know but yes what can you cities all about ok so groove our city is is actually a drumming network it's something that we started a few years ago because i've been always interested in  drumming from different countries not only brazil and and and i was always wanted to explore what if we take you take rhythms from from from west africa or take rhythms from america and and ok it's your creation and so i'm going to step out of the way and let you carry on with something from that sure let's do it back that file cabinet sure sounds good but what if we do this  well i know when i studied with my malini silva brazil she brought a lot of choreography from brazil to boston and cambridge and so i got a chance to play the part of the queen which is why i said to you i was the queen for america i know and so that was that was the connection that i had thanks to maline so yeah that was that was a is related to the lady that you mention and and then they said they knew my coming in and doing a workshop for us of mine i got to and he and then all the professors got together a few students and eight comes in and we are a lot of jokes you know so so it comes and we call him a go how come you're not here and then he says well it's raining outside so so he didn't go to the workshop with berkeley that's where his family was and one of the dances that he taught us was a kind of a tightrope walking kind of dance that came from when yeah and so far that's my memory of him and that's my memory of brazil to that point you know all right can i hear from anybody else in the group you have anything to contribute in terms of what you're playing oh they have a lot to say i'm sure they look like they're very opportunity to speak i played a text two thousand and ten and then i spoke a text boston two thousand and fourteen with versity we also played at carnegie hall which was really cool in the summer so yeah out and we'd like to thank our audience for tuning into that and hopefully you got a chance to dance to this wonderful music that i was standing over there not in the corner trying not to be obvious again we have the art of black dance and music this is one of our archival programs and we will give you contact information for marcus santos and goo versity this man and his group have been all over the world i would assume and so you know he brings this treasure back to us some of us in the sum of all school systems some of us in the community so we want to make sure that you tune in from time to time because we have a surprise as often as we possibly can