EREM FOLIA 2013

Carnival  

Carnival, what’s carnival? I wonder if all Brazilians know about it.  

Well, carnival is more Brazil than a five-time world cup champion team, a party that join all the different people. It is popular party that get more culture each year. But, is carnival equals in every place of Brazil?  No, samba is in Rio, axé is in Bahia, frevo and maracatu are in Permambuco.

Pernambuco is so carnival land that when someone talks about it, I just think about the carnival of Olinda and Recife. Cícero Dias said “I knew  the world  begins in Recife” and I say “the carnival begins in Recife and ends in Olinda”.

Here in Pernambuco nobody wait the carnival, all starts one week before, blocks along the streets with joy, fantasy… and those people, traditional party in that rhythms of frevo, enlarge the soul of Pernambuco’s Carnival.

And when a tourist asks me, “What’s carnival?” I’ll say that it’s the biggest party of Brazil and Pernambuco.