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SAMBA NORTH

Toronto's Samba Squad is a community-based, multicultural, Brazilian-styled drum band founded in 2000 by Toronto percussion legend Rick Shadrach Lazar. This amazing group performs an exhilarating mixture of West African, Caribbean and Afro-Cuban Carnaval rhythms. Through interviews with Squad members and prominent individuals from Canadian cultural communities who have worked with Rick and the band, Samba North examines the band's unlikely success story and profiles its energetic founder.