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Bloco T-Shirt: What is It?
In the northern part of Brazil during carnaval, the parades are very different from those in Rio and are called "blocos" and "Trio-Electricos". "Blocos" mean "blocks" or groups of people who parade with the same costume or T-Shirt. Trio-Electricos literally mean "electric trios" because the first sound car parades appeared in the early 1960s with a trio of instruments and equipment atop constisting of an electric base, percussion, and a crude PA system.
Today, the sound cars carry entire bands, their guests and cost hundreds of thousand of dollars and T-Shirts to participate in the blocos can cost as much as $100US.
This year's bloco at the Brazilian Street Carnaval will be Fabio Assi and "Made in Bahia" who can animate any crowd. You need to have a T-Shirt to parade with the sound car and bateria in the second parade of the event starting around 5:15 pm.
Brazil Moderno
This year's carnaval T-Shirt celebrates the "Modern" Brazil - the Brazil that will be hosting the worldcup and the Olympics all within the span of two years.
The design is of the Brazilian flag with the SambaLa logo superimposed onto the blue field.
The T-Shirt is designed by Igor Leal who is the head designer of the exclusive live of Samba T-Shirt "D'Samba".
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Designer, Composer, Artist - Igor Leal
This year's T-Shirt was designed by Igor Leal from Rio de Janeiro. Composer, carnavaelsco, Igor has won “concurso de samba enredo” numerous times in the top samba schools in Rio de Janeiro for Mangueira and Mocidade (2008).
He won the contest for Mangueira at the tender age of 17.
Igor now has his own line of Samba T-Shirts under the D'Samba logo.
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