Porto Alegre is a city of a million and a half inhabitants that has managed to keep all the charms and customs of a small town. Every weekend a side street of the main park in the city is closed and a huge outdoor fair is set up. On Saturdays it's reserved to organic foods and on Sundays it's an arts-craft-antique-crap-food-performance-fair. It's called the Brique and some characters show up almost every weekend, my favorite is Ze da Folha.
He is a one-man-band, he plays a guitar and a tambourine with his foot But his main talent is a leaf that he holds between his lips to whistle out tunes. He is very good and has a repertoire ranging from Bossa Nova to Tangos. Here he is in a YouTube video. (Love that song btw it's called `Trem das onze`, is it pathetic that I know all the words?)
(the video is not mine it's from this link at google videos: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6803741597798243907&hl=en#)
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