Maracatu Mar Aberto has been a Harvest tradition since its early days. They lead everyone out of the Circus to the lighting of the Bonfire 🔥.

Drummers with bonfire behind them

Translated to English as the Open Sea, the name represents the aggregated influences that have travelled from Africa to Brazil and onward to Toronto and beyond. Mar Aberto is a living tradition of maracatu in a local context, not a folkloric representation.

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