In its first edition, in 2024, the event brought together more than a thousand people in Oswaldo Cruz. That’s why the Barão Festival will return to the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro in November, with an even broader program. The best part: 100% free! See what to expect at this party!
The aim of the festival is to democratize access to art
With the success of the first edition, the Barão Festival showed all its potential as a platform for popular art, praising peripheral culture. And that is exactly the aim of the event.
Conceived by Rossandra Leone, a child of Oswaldo Cruz, filmmaker and founder of the festival, the Barão Festival was born to break with the logic that great cultural experiences only happen in the Center-South Zone axis. And it worked!
In 2024, Rua Barão de Jacuí became a museum, a walkway, a stage and an open-air movie theater, with children running between paintings, ladies enjoying the shows and people of all ages enjoying every detail.
This is why, this year, the festival is expanding its program and preparing to consolidate its position as an annual event in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.
Check out the full Barão Festival program
Among the attractions of the second edition is a visual arts exhibition with artists such as Andrey Sanches and Rute Santos (Musa). Andrey is a suburban artist, painting teacher and tattoo artist. Rute, a visual artist from Favela da Maré, is the highlight of Expo Favela 2025.
In addition, the musical program brings together big names. Among them, PirigoDJ, who moves between black music, R&B, funk, rap, jazz, hip hop and much more, keeping the street moving.
There’s also Kalebe Nascimento, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who mixes soul, jazz and Afro-Brazilian rhythms in a sound that he defines as “MPB – Música Preta Brasileira”.
And, of course, in Oswaldo Cruz you can’t miss the roda de samba!Batuque da Yves, led by Rafaela Yves, a self-taught percussionist who brings the foundations of African music to samba and forms a group made up only of women samba dancers.
There’s also a fashion show and an open-air cinema
And it doesn’t stop there: this year’s fashion show at the Barão Festival will be signed by the Borbolefly brand, known for creating unique and creative pieces from the transformation of discarded material .
To close, the festival is also showing the short film “Samba no Trem”, by Zózimo Bulbul, one of the most important names in Brazilian black cinema.
The film records the celebration that departs from Central do Brasil in the direction of Oswaldo Cruz, recalling the origins of the Samba Train and the ancestral power of black people in the formation of Rio’s cultural identity.
Barão Festival
📅 November 15th | 2pm to 11pm
📌Rua Barão de Jacuí – Oswaldo Cruz
💵Free