Welcome to A Banda!

In Brazilian Portuguese, "A Banda" simply means "The Band". For 25 years, A Banda has been one of Copenhagen's top samba show bands, playing concerts throughout Scandinavia, Europe and South America. The style is Brazilian street samba, so the sound is raw and raucous; full of life and celebration. With a typical show featuring about 10 drummers and percussionists, 10 horn players, 10 performing dancers and any number of dancing audience members, wherever "The Band" arrive, the party is sure to follow!

25 Years So Far! In 2007, A Banda celebrated 25 years of drums, music and dancing. We started it off with a concert at our unofficial "home base" at Operan in Christiania in January. Then, in February, we travelled around Northern Brazil playing concerts, joining parades and having fun at some of the world's biggest carnival celebrations! We then returned to Northern Brazil in February 2009.

Since its start, A Banda has been a featured act at Denmark's biggest samba event: the Copenhagen Carnival, which takes place every June. And every second year, we perform for the people who know and love samba best by traveling all the way to Brazil to join in carnival celebrations for several weeks in February. In between, we perform a great variety of jobs including public concerts, town festivals, private parties, business conventions and workplace events.