They say that lightening doesn’t strike twice but Favela Brass has featured twice on the BBC within the space of three days.
The first was playing own samba version of “Chariots of Fire right at the end of BBC One’s primetime program “Countdown to Rio”, which ran from 8:30pm to 10pm, before the opening ceremony of the Olympics:
It’s an amazing moment for the project and we’re all incredibly happy that the Olympics really did provide us with opportunity that we were all hoping for in terms of spreading the word about our project.
The task now is to find a way to convert all of this fantastic publicity into music lessons for our kids.