The Brazilian trio pays tribute to the phenomenon Gisberta Salce Júnior with a very special concert evening.
Novo Cais Trio has performed at some of Copenhagen’s finest venues and has over time built an audience that comes specifically to experience authentic Brazilian music played with care and intelligence.
This evening, Novo Cais will pay tribute to the phenomenon of Gisberta Salce Júnior.
Gisberta Salce Júnior was a Brazilian trans woman who settled in Porto, Portugal – a performer, an artist, a woman who brought joy to those who knew her. Her story did not end as it should have: She died after a brutal hate crime in 20026. But her name did not disappear. It is remembered in songs, street names and in public memory. This concert celebrates not only the person Gisberta Salce Júnior, but also the dignity, resistance and love that her memory continues to evoke.
This concert tribute weaves together the greatest LGBTQ+ songs fr...
The Brazilian trio pays tribute to the phenomenon Gisberta Salce Júnior with a very special concert evening.
Novo Cais Trio has performed at some of Copenhagen’s finest venues and has over time built an audience that comes specifically to experience authentic Brazilian music played with care and intelligence.
This evening, Novo Cais will pay tribute to the phenomenon of Gisberta Salce Júnior.
Gisberta Salce Júnior was a Brazilian trans woman who settled in Porto, Portugal – a performer, an artist, a woman who brought joy to those who knew her. Her story did not end as it should have: She died after a brutal hate crime in 20026. But her name did not disappear. It is remembered in songs, street names and in public memory. This concert celebrates not only the person Gisberta Salce Júnior, but also the dignity, resistance and love that her memory continues to evoke.
This concert tribute weaves together the greatest LGBTQ+ songs from five decades of MPB — Música Popular Brasileira.
The evening’s centerpiece is Pedro Abrunhosa’s “Balada de Gisberta” — the anthem against transphobia that has moved audiences across Brazil and Portugal.
Around that song, Novo Cais builds a program that celebrates the extraordinary tradition of queer-affirming voices in Brazil as well as Portugal.
Between songs, lead singer Daniel Boer Bonifacio — a Portuguese-Brazilian who is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community — will offer brief spoken reflections in English, connecting each piece to Gisberta’s story and the broader, living history of LGBTQ+ resistance in Brazil.
This is a celebration of life — and of the power of music to carry us through it all....
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