The Parintins Folkloric Festival is happening later this month and I think not only that you should give it a chance but that you should get hyped for it
This year it'll be on the 26th, 27th and 28th of June and you can watch it all live for free on the local news youtube channel
If you don't want to wait and want to watch something right now I remember the second night last year being great
What is The Parintins Folkloric Festival anyway? It is the largest open-air folkloric festival in the world, it consists of celebrations around Bumba Meu Boi, a legend a about the resurrection of an ox. Bumba Meu Boi celebrations happen all around Brazil, all with their own unique ox, but nothing has the same scale of the celebrations that happen in Parintins, an island in the far north of the country.
In Parintins, the celebration has turned into a competition between the groups of both oxen, Boi Garantido (red) and Boi Caprichoso (blue). Both groups perform and celebrate through 3 nights every year in june, and at the end, one of them is crowned the winner. With original songs, dances, costumes and immense parade floats that change every night, they both showcase Brazilian legends, the culture of the amazon people and more, with heavy influence from indigenous culture around the region.
The festival is heavily ingrained in the identity and culture of the region and I don't think you can see anything like it anywhere else. I strongly encourage you to look into it and check it out, there's really no way to show how grandiose and magical this festival is just with a short video or text, you can check out the vods for previous years in the TV A Critical youtube channel, linked above, and check out the official website, instagram as well as Caprichoso's and Garatido's official instragrams
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