Gentle Weep
Gentle Weep was formed in Toronto by three Brazilian musicians who share a passion for choro and for the “rodas” in which it lives — informal gatherings, often around a table of food and drink, where players accompany whatever a soloist throws at them, following and subverting convention, and making room for moments that are beautiful, challenging, and funny. Choro emerged in late 19th-century Brazil from the encounter of indigenous, European, and Afro-diasporic cultures and its name is connected to “chorar” (to weep), due to the sentimental way those musicians bent European melodies into something new.