Show Brazil! Artists at the Center

Internationally recognized and respected Show Brazil! has delighted audiences in the United States Brazil and Canada for over twenty five years. The ensemble features accomplished performers featuring Brazilian traditional to contemporary music and dance.

Show Brazil!’s bandleader and Music Director Eduardo Mendonça (menDONsa) a native of Salvador Bahia Brazil traces his lineage to a royal African family bearing the hereditary title of Mamabeka ("prophet of the royal court") as documented by the Instituto Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia. Besides being a musician Eduardo Mendonça was a K-12 Principal in Brazil. He has played composed and directed various genres of Brazilian popular music in the US Canada Nepal and Brazil since 1974. 

Eduardo is also the Music Director for iBuildBridges Foundation had the honor to play for Pope John Paul II’s welcome to Brazil former South Africa President Nelson Mandela (Seattle WA - USA - 1999) Brazilian President João Baptista Figueiredo (Brazil 1979) the 14th Dalai Lama (Seattle WA in 2008) and was also featured in the PBS American Masters documentary Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time video in 1991.

Featured Artists:

Eduardo Mendonça - Percussion vocal and guitar 

David Pascal - Bass 

Scott Ketron - Drum set 

Ted Bohn - Trombone and percussion 

Walter - Trumpet 

Jeremy Shaskus - Tenor sax 

Caxambu - percussion 

Rachel Sandy - Dancer

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Host or Publisher Eduardo Mendonca