Virada Cultural

Virada Cultural is a cultural event that takes place in São Paulo once every year. This is an opportunity for everyone to enjoy music, cinema and exhibitions without paying anything. Over 50 stages all over the city with all from unknown performers to some of the biggest names in Brasilian music.
The problem is choosing where, who, what end when. There are so much things going on at the same time that this is the day you wish you could clone yourself. For me the choice fell on Vale do Anhangabaú, which is a great spot in the very heart of the center of the city. On an open air stage the the thousands of people that had showed up could enjoy the legend Hermeto Pascoal who is a very important man here. He was a part of Quarteto Novo, that I wrote about earlier. He is one of the more innovative musicians of his generation. After him, entered the stage Airto Moreira, who is a very known drummer and percussionist. He also played with Hermeto , and after he moved to the Unitet States he recorded with Miles Davis among others.