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Grupo Liberdade participated in the the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture Kwanzaa Celebration at the Montclair Public Library. The bateria plays the berimbaus and percussion instruments that provide the rhythm and music for the roda and…

Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira provide ambiance and energy in the roda by leading the rhythms and songs.

Members of Grupo Senzala de Capoeira and invited guests playing berimbaus, pandeiro, heko-heko and singing in the batería at the group's 2018 bautizado.

The agogô is a set of bells used in the batería of capoeira and throughout the African diaspora.

The berimbau is an African instrument that leads the batería in capoeira. It is considered a percussion instrument and consists of a wooden bow called verga (made from the wood of the beriba tree), a single metal string called arame, a hollow gourd…

In Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira, all students learn, study and play the musical instruments featured in the variety of forms taught and practiced in classes and training.

Pandeiro is one of the instruments used in the batería of capoeira. Like the other instruments used in the batería, the pandeiro is also of African origin.

Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira practice the rhythms and songs of the batería before training and playing capoeira.

Cavalo, a member of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira, singing in the batería during one of Professora Amazonas’ classes.

In Professora Amazonas classes, all students, including the children, study and learn the instruments of capoeira, from the drums to the berimbau, and play during the roda.

Berimbau, an essential instrument in the capoeira batería.

Berimbau played in a "roda de Capoeira" at the annual Arts in the Park festival held in Highland Park, New Jersey.

The berimbau is the leader of the roda, setting the rules of the game, and the atabaque provides the pulse or the heartbeat.

Berimbaus hanging on the wall at FICA.
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