Carnival in Salvador: see events that anticipate the festivities – 01/24/2024 – Tourism
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Perhaps Salvador has the most extensive carnival calendar in Brazil. From the beginning of the year until the official date of the festivities — which in the city starts on Thursday, two days before what is usually done in part of the country — the capital has a packed schedule of street parties and cultural and religious celebrations .
The heat of summer and the imminence of the biggest Brazilian street party give a boost to tourism and the desire to travel through the streets of Salvador, but the city also puts together a strong program every year.
The result appears in the numbers — 800,000 tourists, 36,000 of them foreigners, more than R$2 billion spent in the sector and an occupancy rate of 97% in the city’s hotels, according to city hall data.
These are mostly free attractions that spread daily across various regions of the city. Examples are Fuzuê and Furdunço, which bring cultural groups and trios to the avenue practically a week before the official start of Carnival, and Melhor Segunda-Feira do Mundo and Pipoco, led by Xanddy and Leo Santana.
It’s also a good time to get to know Salvador’s roots in religiosity: the traditional Lavagem de Itapuã and Festa de Iemanjá take place on the first two days of February.
The end of January also hosts a new edition of the Salvador Summer Festival, which mixes, in its lineup, important examples of Bahian music, such as Caetano Veloso, Ivete Sangalo, Carlinhos Brown, Daniela Mercury and Ilê Aiyê, with artists from other regions of the country. country, such as Lulu Santos, Liniker, Matuê and Luísa Sonza.
See below a list of 10 events that anticipate Carnival in Salvador and are worth your attention.
Saturday and Sunday (27 and 28/1)
Salvador Summer Festival
It is the 25th anniversary of the festival that occupies the Exhibition Park in a weekend filled with important musical performances that total around 30 hours of show — and a lineup that highlights Bahian artists and new names in national music.
Performing, divided between the two main stages of the event, are names such as Ivete Sangalo, who is preparing an unprecedented show, the artists Bell Marques and Claudia Leitte, who sing together for the first time, and Daniela Mercury, who invites Margareth Menezes and the group to the stage Ilê Aiyê.
Also on stage are names like Leo Santana, who performs with Luísa Sonza, Carlinhos Brown, who joins forces with BaianaSystem, and Caetano Veloso, who performs the last special performance of his show based on the classic album “Transa”, from 1972. The festival also invites CeeLo Green, the only international attraction at the event.
The festival will also have the Rua Stage, which features up-and-coming local faces and invites, this year, names like O Kannalha, Illy and Diggo, and another space dedicated to electronic music.
Salvador Exhibition Park – Av. Luís Viana Filho, 1.590, Itapuã, Instagram @festivalverao Sat. (27) and Sun. (28), at 3pm. From R$ 178 at Sympla
Thursday (1/2)
Itapuã washing
The secular event is always held on the Thursdays before the Salvador Carnival begins. It starts early in the morning, when residents of the Itapuã region parade through the neighborhood in a Bando Annunciador that invites, with the help of music, residents to the party.
At around 10:30 am, immersed in the syncretism between Catholicism and religions of African origin, the procession goes along the waterfront, from the Piatã neighborhood to the steps of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Itapuã —a figure celebrated by the party—, where Bahian women They wash the place with scented water in a purification ritual.
The festival still takes place all day with processions, masses and other cultural presentations, such as street blocks.
Friday (2/2)
Iemanjá Festival
The celebration of the orixá known as the queen of the sea is one of the most important religious manifestations in Bahia and begins early in the morning, at Casa de Iemanjá, located in the Rio Vermelho neighborhood, to the sound of Candomblé drums.
It’s at dawn that the party officially begins, with fireworks and the public gathering to place their offerings — usually flowers — so that fishermen can leave them on the high seas at the end of the afternoon.
The day is filled with presentations by samba, capoeira and percussion groups scattered along the neighborhood’s waterfront and also by parallel programs, such as the Oferendas Festival, which promotes, on the 1st and 2nd, at Lálá Casa de Arte, shows by names such as Josyara, Tambores do Mundo, Jadsa and Juçara Marçal, as well as DJ sets.
Iemanjá House – Rio Vermelho
Festival Offerings: Lálá Casa de Arte – r. da Paciência, 329, Rio Vermelho, Instagram @lalacasadearte. Thu. (1/2), from 7pm to 2am, and Fri. (2), from 2pm to 10pm. From R$160 at Sympla
Saturday (3/2)
Fuzuê
From 2pm onwards, the Orlando Tapajós circuit welcomes 42 cultural and brass bands, all with traditional floor bands, for the seventh edition of Fuzuê. They play, for example, Gravata Doida, Afoxé Filhos de Korin Efan, A Mulherada and Escola de Samba Unidos de Itapuã.
Orlando Tapajós Circuit – from Ondina (Spanish Club) to Farol da Barra
Sunday (4/2)
Fantasy Sea Bath
This is one of the liveliest events that give a taste of Salvador’s Carnival. Early in the morning, around 9am, revelers gather on Ladeira da Preguiça. The procession led by carnival groups usually leaves at noon, with music guiding the crowd through the streets of the neighborhood — and it all ends in a swim on Gamboa beach.
Furdunço
On the same Fuzuê circuit, scheduled the day before, Furdunço brings together 52 attractions to liven up the party from 2pm onwards. It’s a day to enjoy great attractions such as Olodum, the band Psirico, singers Gerônimo and Jammil and the band BaianaSystem, which parades with its famous Pirate Ship.
Orlando Tapajós Circuit – from Ondina (Spanish Club) to Farol da Barra
Monday (5) and Tuesday (6/2)
Best Monday in the World and Popcorn
Both days are led by big names in the festivities. On the 5th, Xanddy joins the trio to guide the Best Monday in the World and, the following day, Leo Santana takes his Bahian pagodão to the traditional Pipoco. The two parties make the journey from Ondina to Farol da Barra from 5pm.
Ondina to Farol da Barra
Wednesday (7/2)
Habeas Cups and fanfares
The band’s one hundred musicians divide between wind and percussion in the parade that opens Salvador’s Carnival at 11pm and passes through the Sérgio Bezerra circuit —the group’s founder—, which runs from Farol to Morro do Cristo. The parade is free, but anyone who wants can spend R$100 to walk along the rope and alongside the band. In addition to Habeas Copos, the avenue is also filled with other musical groups, such as Xupisco, Amigos do Mestre and O Caldo.
Sérgio Bezerra Circuit – between Farol da Barra and Morro do Cristo
Tickets for the rope at bandahabeascopos.com.br
Blessing of Olodum
The afro block founded in 1979 makes paid presentations in the city — the next one is scheduled for the 30th, in Pelourinho.
Calendar on Instagram @bencaodoolodum
Afro procession
Created in 1998 in the Cobre Basin, in Parque São Bartolomeu, the cultural group carries out several rehearsals of its musical arm, which also combines visual arts and dance. The mix of African rhythms with electronic beats and Latin and pop sounds is mixed with that of guests such as Gerônimo, Xande de Pilares and Afrocidade, who participated in this year’s rehearsals.
Calendar on Instagram @cortejoafro
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