HAYWARD -- In Brazil, the Rhythm of Samba is everywhere and in just weeks those same sounds will fill the air right here in the Bay Area at San Francisco's 45th annual Carnaval celebration and parade.

Stephen Tiffenson can still hear the African beats of the tambuo bamboo -- the traditional Trinidadian percussion instrument -- that pulsed through the streets of Sangre Grande during Carnaval. As a ...

The people who turned this city’s Carnaval parade into a multimillion-dollar enterprise of feather headpieces, fanciful floats and gyrating dancers in expensive costumes have even bigger plans afoot.

Samba dancers sporting headdresses of brilliant crimson, yellow and orange, traditional African drummers, giant puppets, Caribbean music - this is just a smattering of the delights in San Francisco's ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Juggling a Coke and a cigarette in one hand and a cookie and a phone in the other, Rosa Magalhaes contemplates her artistic creations before they go on display in a few days’ time.

Take a (sub)tropical paradise with a strong sense of community, add some samba music, a bunch of sweaty, topless men, and a handful of women in skimpy bikinis and feather headdresses and you’ve got ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Carnaval returns to San Francisco for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The two-day event attracts thousands to the Mission District for a festival and a ...

Folks who can’t make it to Brazil for Carnaval can get a taste of the famous festival right here in the Twin Cities on Saturday. More than 60 singers, musicians, samba dancers, actors and artisans are ...