Members of the Padre Miguel samba school performing at the Sambadrome during Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. REUTERS ...

From February to March each year, Brazil enters its most vibrant season. As the rhythm of the drums begins, music and ...

Carnival celebrates vibrant global traditions, blending history, resistance, and cultural expression through music, dance, ...

Brazil’s Carnival is a global phenomenon, renowned for its exuberant parades, vibrant samba rhythms and dazzling costumes.

THEY are the gorgeous, glittering Samba dancers who steal ... heart-pounding Rio Carnival are once again preparing to don their spectacular costumes and strut their stuff in front of millions ...

A samba school rises to Rio Carnival's top league ... said as she fixed details on several costumes, some bearing the school's traditional red and white colors. “When Carnival comes, it offers ...

But Carnival's main event is the Sambadrome — the be-all, end-all. On this 700-meter (nearly half-mile) concrete avenue, samba schools compete to put on the best parade with feathered, shimmering ...

"For me, Carnival has always represented ... colored and sparkly outfits at a Carnival costume outfitters. Paraiso do Tuiuti is one of 12 samba schools that compete in Rio's enormous and elaborate ...