Fabiano Araújo released his Cd project called ‘Calendário do Som: Nove Dias’ at Teatro Carlos Gomes, in Vitória, ES, Brazil. The project was based on the Hermeto Pascoal’s songbook called Calendário do Som (Calendar of Sound). During a whole year, Hermeto wrote 366 songs, 1 song per day. According to him, it was a strong desire to give a birthday gift for every human being in the earth.

Video #1: song ‘June 23rd’

Video #2: song ‘June 9th’

The project ‘Agora às Sete’ (Now at Seven), produced by the culture office of the Espirito Santo state, in Brazil, had three concerts that happened last june at the renewed Carlos Gomes Theather in Vitoria, the capital of the state. Bruno Venturin openned the night with a solo piano concert. The second concert was Fabiano Araujo Quartet with Fabiano Araújo on the piano, Célio Barros on the bass, Guilherme Marques on the drums, and myself on the saxophones. Hermeto Pascoal and Aline Morena played the third concert of the night. At the end of Hermeto’s concert, he invited all musicians to get together on the stage and play one of his most famous tune: ‘Bebe’ (little baby). It was a really intense moment of the night. The whole audience that attended the Theater Carlos Gomes, in Vitoria, Brazil, seemed to be really enjoying it.

However, something went wrong regarded to the tickets. Lots of people, including my family, that had their tickets on their hands, couldn’t get into the theather. The concert was free, but the audience was suppose to get their tickets with two hours in advance. The number of people willing to attend the concert was bigger than the available tickets, and for those that couldn’t get a ticket tried to get into the theather anyway. The police was called, but it didn’t work. In order to disturb the concert that was already happening inside, the crowd outside start yelling really loud. Some people inside of the theather joined them and for a few minutes I thought that something would happen. Fortunately, they calmed down and the concert continued without any other surprises.

Fabiano Araujo Quarteto

Blowing…

The crowd outside

Getting together

With the sorcerer Hermeto Pascoal