Founded by New York accordion virtuoso Rob Curto, Forró For All plays the highly irresistible dance music of northeastern Brazil known as forró pé de serra, an energetic blend of Afro-Brazilian percussion and European dance music of the late 1800s, specifically polkas, waltzes and mazurkas. Using the traditional instruments of forró, the accordion, triangle and zabumba, a large bass drum, as well as electric bass, the four-string cavaquinho, various percussion instruments and violin, “America’s finest purveyors of forró…combine a wildly imaginative jazz sensibility with obvious reverence for traditional Brazilian get-down sounds and the fusion is exhilarating” (San Francisco Bay Guardian). The New York-based band, which includes such top musicians from Brazil and the U.S. as Pedro Ramos, Mike LaVelle and Rogerio Boccato, has performed at major world music and accordion festivals throughout the world and released its debut CD, Forró For All, in 2006 to widespread critical and fan acclaim.