clique na imagem para ampliar Fotos: Naty Torres Show na Casa do Conde, em BH, com participacao de Decio Ramos e Paulo Santos, do Uakti. Nov 2004.Fotos: Rodrigo Dai clique na imagem para ampliar Apresentacao do Cataventore com o boi da manta e a Veia do Bambu, em Dionisio/MG, dentro do Projeto Trilhas da Cultura. Abril 2004.Imagens (frames de video): Rafael Cabelo clique na imagem para ampliar Fife and drum form one of the most spread out instrumental combinations in the Brazilian inlands and are the source for Cataventores musical work. The band began its carrier in the year 2000 in Belo Horizonte, the city best known as the birthplace for the Clube da Esquina Movement (Milton Nascimento, Toninho Horta and others). But it was the traditional culture of Northeast Brazil and Minas Gerais State that set the artistic path of the group. The instrumentation includes fifes, cavaquinho (small acoustic guitar), zabumba (bass drum), tambourine, snare drum, side drum, triangle, cymbals, maracas, reco-reco (scraping instrument), ilu (conga), agogo, whistles and more. Several of the instruments are made by the band members themselves. At presenting a variety of elements of Brazilian culture, together with an appreciable compositional work, the band consolidated itself in the local music scene and is becoming progressively known around the country and also abroad. In 2004, the band made its first studio work, when it was one of the eight winners, among 550 participants in the contest festival Conexao Telemig Celular de Musica: New trends in the music of Minas Gerais. In the festivals resulting collective CD, the group recorded one of the tracks along with Uaktis members Paulo Santos and Decio Ramos. In 2008, it recorded the first album, Cataventore, an essentially authorial work, that includes eight compositions by the band and two other tracks, by Brazilian Northeastern composers. The CD was well received by the public and successfully launched in the following year in a tour around the Brazilian States of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, Ceara and Para. One of the album tracks, the samba No terreiro, was selected to the CD dedicated to the contemporary musical scene from Minas Gerais, that accompanied the British Magazine Songlines issue #70, from aug-sep/2010. Cataventore has performed along with important musicians of Brazilian instrumental music scene such as Sebastiao Tapajos, Paulo Santos and Decio Ramos of Uakti, Banda de Pifanos de Caruaru, Mestre Luiz Paixao, Banda de Pifanos de Bendego, Joao do Pifano, among others. In its performance, the band presents its own compositions, as well as a Brazilian instrumental repertoire, that covers different genres and rhythms, such as samba, chorinho, congado, maracatu and a selection of baioes and arrasta-pes in the best Brazilian fife-and-drum tradition. Show de Joao do Pifano com participacao do Cataventore, na Praca da Liberdade, em BH. Jun-2005. Fotos: Bruno Figueiredo.clique na imagem para ampliar Show no projeto Tempo de Musica/BH. Ago 2006.Fotos: Bia Domingues clique na imagem para ampliar Oficina no Festival de Inverno da UFOP, em Ouro Preto/MG. Julho 2005.Fotos: Juliana Pautilla/Daniel MagalhaesOficina na Creche CACAD, em Contagem/MG. Novembro 2005.Fotos: Juliana