Depuis 2006, Léonard Constant travaille en étroite collaboration avec le Florquestra (alias Florquestra Brasil). Pour en savoir plus long sur l’univers Florquestra, rendez-vous sur www.florquestra.com.



Un extrait de la page MySpace de cette formidable formation :

Florquestra recipe (serves all): Mix a handful of feverish sambas, a pinch of sultry bossa novas, a dash of tropical rhyme, the intricate beauty of Brazilian harmony and the rhythmic patterns you may have never heard before... but will love immediately. Serve on a hot day, between a slice of setting sun and a slice of settled sea, with a Regina Gomes Teixeira (vocals, percussion), a Leonard Constant (guitar, vocals), a Silvio Módolo (piano, bass, squeeze-box, vocals, guitar, percussion) an Evandro Gracelli (special guest on guitar, cavaquinho & vocals), a Fernando Acosta (percussion, berimbau, vocals) and an Angel Araos (percussion).

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“No surprise that the heat keeps rising into the weekend at a venue called Mercury Lounge. Just pronouncing Florquestra Brasil makes me warmer, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what is on offer this eve. A bonafide bossa nova and samba band from Guimarães and São Paulo, Florquestra Brasil will make your heart weep for sunburns while you burn up the wooden floor.” — Cormac Rea, Ottawa Xpress, January 2009

“Boy, Ottawa is lucky to have such a great act in its midst!” — Kai Black, Executive Producer of Daytime Programming, CBC Radio Two, Toronto