Make Music Houston

Batalá Houston

Batalá Houston is a local community-based percussion group that is part of a worldwide percussive movement called Batalá Mundo. Batalá plays the energetic and contagious Afro-Brasilian genre of Samba Reggae, which comes from Bahia, a state in northeastern Brasil. The Houston group is made up of people of all walks of life from diverse backgrounds who come together to respectfully learn about and engage with Samba Reggae and its existence as a cultural legacy of Afro-Brasilian people from Bahia, Brasil. Band members do so by individually and collectively committing to developing their craft as Batalá drummers and sharing it with others in the community with enthusiasm and humility. The vision is to cultivate vibrancy and inclusion through cultural exchange and enrichment via community, culture and music.