DENDÊ & BAND
Dendê Macêdo is a percussionist, singer, composer, bandleader, teacher, and multi-instrumentalist. He’s been a professional musician since the age of 14, when he appeared in the frontline of Timbalada, Carlinhos Brown’s superstar percussion ensemble. Since 2001, he’s been splitting his time between the US and Bahia, working with his own ensembles.
His flagship group, Dendê & Band reflects the cross-section of his deep roots in traditions like samba de roda and Candomblé and his eclectic musical appetite for other global rhythms like rumba, afrobeat and mbalax. Over the past two decades, Dendê & Band have performed at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK, Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles; the KW Latinfest in Canada; the Penang World Music Festival in Malaysia; the Kalalu Festival in Saint Lucia, Summerdance and Old Town School in Chicago the Lincoln Center Atrium in NYC among many others.
Agô
Release Date: May 27, 2022
Special guests include:
Felipe Hostins - accordion
Gerson Silva - guitars on Crioula
Mikael Mutti - keyboards on Crioula
Ximbinha - guitars on Moça
Keinho - cavaquinho on Moça
Dice Raw - Recorded by Chance Halter at Forge Studios in Overland, PA
Antoine Roney - sax on You Can Dance
Editing, mixing and mastering by Fausto Meu Nobre and Hugo Elias
Executive Production by Leslie Macedo and Dende Macedo
This project was realized by Mamadêlê Foundation with support in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.
