Barry, SOuth Wales
Y Barri, De Cymru
Festival of carnival
percussion and dance
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South Wales’ largest and longest running carnival street bands, Samba Galêz and Barracwda, are teaming up to deliver the Welsh Encontro Cymru 2025. An Encontro is a meeting of Afro-Brazilian influenced percussion and carnival bands to learn, share, perform, and celebrate!
The weekend will involve a packed programme of participatory workshops for personal and skill development, a showcase evening, busking slots for visiting bands providing opportunities for all to perform, and a mass busk finale on the first May bank holiday weekend of 2025.
GWyl offerynnau taro
a dawns y carnifal
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Mae bandiau carnifal cymunedol mwyaf a hynaf De Cymru, Samba Galêz a Barracwda, yn ymuno i gyflwyno Encontro Cymru 2025. Mae Encontro yn gyfarfod o fandiau taro a charnifal gyda dylanwad ffyrdd Affro-Brasil i ddysgu, rhannu, perfformio, a dathlu!
Bydd y penwythnos yn cynnwys rhaglen lawn weithdai ar gyfer datblygu sgiliau, noson arddangos, darparu cyfleoedd i bawb berfformio gyda slotiau ar gyfer bandiau sy’n dod i'r ŵyl, a diweddglo bysgio yn cynnwys pawb ar benwythnos gŵyl banc cyntaf mis Mai 2025.
Barracwda
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Samba Galêz
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BLOCO B
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Baque de Axé
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Barracwda • Samba Galêz • BLOCO B • Baque de Axé •
What's Occurin'
BE SY'N OCCURRO
The showcase will take you from Maracatu to Drum and Bass while our busking programme features street percussion bands from across the UK.
Bydd y sioe yn mynd â chi o Maracatu i Drwm a Bas tra bod ein rhaglen bysgio yn cynnwys bandiau taro stryd o bob rhan o'r DU.
Bands | Bandiau
Workshops | Gweithdai
Develop skills and learn new ones - sing, dance, play - there’s something for everyone.
Datblygu sgiliau a dysgu rhai newydd - canu, dawnsio, chwarae - mae rhywbeth at ddant pawb.
Your hosts
eich gwesteiwyr
BARRACWDA
Cardiff based Afro Brazilian percussion band, fusing samba with funk, reggae and jungle.
Band taro Affro Brasil o Gaerdydd, yn asio samba gyda ffync, reggae a jyngl.
Funky rhythms and choreography from Wales’s longest running carnival street band – reflecting influences from Brazil, Africa, Cuba and beyond.
Rhythmau ffynci a choreograffi gan fand stryd carnifal hynaf Cymru – yn adlewyrchu dylanwadau o Frasil, Affrica, Ciwba a thu hwnt.