Nova Guarda are a Birmingham based Brazilian music collective, made up of over 30 percussionists and musicians. We spread the Carnival atmosphere around the UK performing high quality Brazilian Carnival music with a British twist.

Nova Guarda is directed by JP Courtney, one of the hottest talents in Brazilian and Afro Cuban music in the UK and is one of the only people to be invited to take a group from the UK to Rio to perform Brazilian carnival music.

We’ll also be joined by Fabio Allman or Fabão, as he is known to his fans, a Brazilian singer, songwriter and percussionist. Amongst many others he has worked with Monobloco, Bangalafumenga, Cássia Eller, O Salto, Duo Carioca and most recently his new Bloco DuRio. His role as a singer with Monobloco saw him at the forefront of the "revitalization" of the street carnival scene of Rio de Janeiro with crowds of in excess of half a million people turning up at 9am!

We work with these top performing artists from Rio to produce crowd pleasing, percussively powerful, dance floor shaking tunes!