Last weekend one of the guys from our small group who owns his own business invited us to a very Brazilian party he did for all his employees. I don't know of any comparison to any parties in the states. The main ingredient is to get family and friends together for fun. Normally, these parties are held in June to celebrate corn harvest and Saints' Days. But this party was in July. In all our years in Brazil we had never gone to one.
Scarecrows were all around guarding the party. It's winter here, and it was cold and windy last Friday night, but all the colored flags and lanterns decorating the room really livened things up inside.
The food - like hotdogs, cornbread, sweetpotato cakes and peanut brittle - came wrapped up in colorful paper too. This party even had espetos (cut up grilled meat on skewers).
The idea is for everyone to come dressed up like poor countr folks. Men dress in old patched jeans, plaid shirts, boots and straw hats. Most have badly painted on mustaches and unibrows. The girls come in flowered dresses with lots of frills, hair parted in the middle and then ponytails or pigtails held together with tape, and to finish it off red lips and cheeks and freckles.
There were booths with carnival games like fishing or ring-toss for prizes. But the big event was "the run-away bridegroom" (kind of like a shotgun wedding, but the dad carries a machete).
It all ends with a quadril - like poorly done line dancing - and forró music - like bad country music - with the bride and groom
It was lots of fun, but sadly, no fireworks to end the night!
Scarecrows were all around guarding the party. It's winter here, and it was cold and windy last Friday night, but all the colored flags and lanterns decorating the room really livened things up inside.
The food - like hotdogs, cornbread, sweetpotato cakes and peanut brittle - came wrapped up in colorful paper too. This party even had espetos (cut up grilled meat on skewers). 
The idea is for everyone to come dressed up like poor countr folks. Men dress in old patched jeans, plaid shirts, boots and straw hats. Most have badly painted on mustaches and unibrows. The girls come in flowered dresses with lots of frills, hair parted in the middle and then ponytails or pigtails held together with tape, and to finish it off red lips and cheeks and freckles.
There were booths with carnival games like fishing or ring-toss for prizes. But the big event was "the run-away bridegroom" (kind of like a shotgun wedding, but the dad carries a machete).
It all ends with a quadril - like poorly done line dancing - and forró music - like bad country music - with the bride and groom
It was lots of fun, but sadly, no fireworks to end the night!
1 comment:
sounds like an awesome ho-down! I love any party that incorporates themes and costumes :)
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