Annual Report 2022
Our first Annual Report as a charity
The Encontro Street Band Festival takes to the streets of Glasgow's Merchant City once more on the 27th-28th July 2019.
BACK in 2019 for a third year running, The Encontro Street Band Festival is an unabashed celebration of street band music – by street bands, for street bands. An exciting co-production between Oi Musica and Glasgow’s notorious SambaYaBamba, the festival celebrates street and carnival music of all persuasions. We invite a plethora of UK and international bands to descend on Glasgow’s Merchant City, featuring all flavours of street drumming, carnival brass, marching band, New Orleans jazz, Afro-Brazilian percussion, straight up samba and more – bringing the spirit of hot dusty streets at carnival time right into the heart of Glasgow! We are delighted to per part of Merchant City Festival in Glasgow, a UNESCO city of music.
Baque Luar (London), Bassface (Edinburgh), Baybeat Street Band (Morcambe), Brass, Aye? (Glasgow),Carnaval Transatlântico feat. Fabio Allman (UK & Brazil), DROM (Leuvan, Belgium), Encontro Pick-up Band (everywhere), Harbingers Drum Crew (Edinburgh), La Timbala presents La Tiñosa (Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh), La Tromba (Concepcion City, Chile), Orixá Bloco (Hebden Bridge), Runaway Samba (County Durham), SambaYaBamba (Glasgow), SambaYaBamba Youth Street Band (Glasgow), Tenth Avenue Band (Newcastle), Toeters en Bellen (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Streetorchestre Eigen Hulp (The Hague, Netherlands).
More info on the OiMusica website
Our first Annual Report as a charity
We're on a funding mission for the youth band with match-funding from Creative Scotland. Please donate if you can and share the link far and wide!
SambaYaBamba are on the lookout for a new rehearsal space
SambaYaBamba are now a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
SambaYaBamba are delighted to have been awarded funding from Creative Scotland’s Emergency Youth Arts Small Grants Scheme.
The countdown is on for Encontro Street Band Festival 2019 - here's all the info you need to be part of the madness
The Youth Band are recruiting young people aged 11-25
The Encontro Street Band Festival is back for a third year!
I think this just about sums it up
The band is warming up for the biggest samba event outside of Brazil - the Coburg Samba Festival in Germany.
Samba Ya Bamba is registered as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), No. SC050632