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We were extremely saddened this week to learn of the untimely death of Marie Twamley, who we had known for many years, through her involvement in MaSamba, MaSamba do Mananha and Munch Samba in Ballymun. Marie initially got involved in … Continue reading → 2

As one year turns into the next, it is the natural time to take stock of what’s gone before, and to use that information to plan for the future – MaSamba is no different, and that’s exactly what’s been happening … Continue reading → 0

Our office re-opened yesterday, and rehearsals re-commenced tonight, so it is definitely ‘all systems go’ in the MaSamba Camp for 2012! Tonight’s rehearsal had a couple of special points – given that it is the anniversary of Phil Lynott’s death, … Continue reading → 0

As the year draws to its conclusion, it’s a good time to look over what MaSamba Samba School did in 2011, what music we played, who we worked with, and who we partied with! This ‘round-up’ blog is not written … Continue reading → 0

Samba music is usually associated with sunshine and hot weather, but when you play samba music in Ireland, you have to be versatile! MaSamba’s crack drumming squad will be on hand to brighten up the Craft Market at Cow’s Lane, … Continue reading → 0

As well as all the manic work in delivering workshops over the last few weeks, there has been a lot of changes in the rehearsal space too. Every so often, we get some time to concentrate on our drums, and … Continue reading → 0

Simeon started work in Colaiste Eoin, Finglas this morning, for what should be a great project. MaSamba have been invited into the school to deliver a series of lunch-time ‘drumming clubs’ where the students give up their lunch-break to explore … Continue reading → 0

As always, in the run-up to Christmas, we get busy tidying up loose ends and finishing off projects, which creates a lot of excitement, and a few bleary eyes along the way! This week, we were out in Clondalkin no … Continue reading → 0

Sarah and Ruth made a great start last week, in getting our in-house youth workshops back up and running. We had decided this year, to go back to basics, and recruit some younger children from around our locality in the … Continue reading → 0

Tonight, we had a great, buzzy rehearsal, with a lot of changes and a lot of ‘new’ people. We had a couple of people join us from our recent night course, and we have also had a couple of brand … Continue reading → 0

SMEI stands for the Society of Music Education in Ireland just held an excellent conference this weekend  in Cork, which brought together a whole raft of people involved in lots of different form of music education from all over. As always, … Continue reading → 0

We just received some really positive news from City of Dublin Youth Service that they are making a grant of just over €2000 available to us to run some workshops between now and the end of the year. While the … Continue reading → 0

This week, saw the last few bits of administration taking place in the huge tidy-up operation after a highly-successful ‘Boys Are Back In Town’ pageant. All that remains for now, is to say a sincere, heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone … Continue reading → 0

Unbelieveably, our 8-week course for ‘Samba Newbies’ is finishing this week – it seem like it only started a fortnight ago! We had a really good group this year – all nice people and pretty quick at picking up the … Continue reading → 0

This, year, for the first time in at least 10 years, we don’t have an ‘official’ Hallowe’en gig – boooo! We are however, travelling to Virginia, Co. Cavan on Sunday, to perform at the infamous ‘Pumpkin Festival‘, which has always … Continue reading → 0

As they say, all good things must come to an end, and on Monday afternoon, we left Chicago after a week of amazing experiences, meeting amazing people, and playing some pretty damn fine samba along the way! The morning was … Continue reading → 0

The last couple of days have been hectic, just as the last couple of MaSamba peeps arrived, and the work started in earnest. On Friday, we delivered a workshop up in Evanston with the Evanston Escola de Samba, in which … Continue reading → 6