Samba Laranja is the Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble and is led by Dr. Elisa Macedo Dekaney and Joshua Dekaney. The group has been going strong since 2001 and started with 5 members. We currently have 55 registered undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of areas of study at Syracuse University and SUNY-Evironmental Science & Foresty. Samba Laranja has performed for over 10,000 central New York public school students and performed in Syracuse, Central New York, Boston, New York City, and Bethesday, Maryland. We play samba-reggae, maracatu, samba, funk, choro, m…
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