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Tensamba

17 Oct 2026, 23 Oct 2026, 31 Oct 2026, 7 Nov 20264 festival days

Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín and 3 more · La Laguna and 2 more

Tensamba 2026 poster: a samba dancer in a feathered carnival costume and drummers by a seaside bay at sunset
Venues
Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín · Casino de La Laguna · Teatro El Sauzal · Teatro Leal
Where
La Laguna · El Sauzal · Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Programme

4 days · 6 artists

Lineup partly announced so far. Set times have not been published yet.

Saturday 17 October

Past

20:30Teatro Leal

  • Trío Corrente
View day details — Sat 17 Oct

Friday 23 October

Past

20:00Teatro El Sauzal

  • Melania Piñero
View day details — Fri 23 Oct

Saturday 31 October

20:30Casino de La Laguna

  • Carme Canela
  • Jurandir Dã Silva
View day details — Sat 31 Oct

Saturday 7 November

19:30Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín

  • Márcio Faraco
  • Laurent de Oliveira
View day details & tickets — Sat 7 Nov

Meet the artists

  • Jazz concert atmosphere

    Barcelona, Spain · Sat 31 Oct

    Jazz singer based in Barcelona who recorded the album Celebrating La Fusa (Fresh Sound Records, 2021) with a guitarist credited there as Jurandir Santana. Her concert at Casino de La Laguna with Jurandir Dã Silva revisits the 1970 album Vinicius de Moraes en La Fusa.

    View day details — Sat 31 Oct
  • Urban / Latin concert atmosphere

    Salvador de Bahía, Brazil · Sat 31 Oct

    Guitarist, composer and researcher born in Salvador de Bahía, billed by the festival beside Carme Canela for a programme built on the 1970 album Vinicius de Moraes en La Fusa.

    View day details — Sat 31 Oct
  • Jazz concert atmosphere

    Alegrete, Brazil; based in Paris · Sat 7 Nov

    Singer-songwriter born in Alegrete, in southern Brazil, and based in Paris, whose songs draw on MPB, samba, bossa nova and jazz. His first solo album, Ciranda, came out in France in 2000; later records include Cajueiro (2014) and L’Électricien de la Ville Lumière (2021). In Santa Cruz he sings and plays guitar with the pianist Laurent de Oliveira.

    View day details — Sat 7 Nov
  • Jazz concert atmosphere

    Paris, France · Sat 7 Nov

    Paris-based pianist working in Brazilian music and jazz. He studied with the classical pianist Wally Karveno, is the son of the drummer Coaty de Oliveira, who worked with Baden Powell, and has taught jazz piano at CIM, ARPEJ and the Bill Evans Piano Academy.

    View day details — Sat 7 Nov

About this edition

The 23rd Festival Tensamba is a Brazilian-culture festival that runs from September to November 2026 across the Canary Islands and abroad, pairing concerts of Brazilian music with talks, film, an exhibition and workshops. This page follows its Tenerife concerts listed here: Trío Corrente at Teatro Leal on 17 October, Melania Piñero at Teatro El Sauzal on 23 October, Carme Canela and Jurandir Dã Silva at Casino de La Laguna on 31 October, and Márcio Faraco with Laurent de Oliveira at the Auditorio de Tenerife on 7 November. The festival’s own programme lists further Tenerife concerts earlier in the autumn and dates on other islands and abroad; they are not part of this page.

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Good to know

Tickets and venues
Each concert is ticketed by its own venue or seller, and the festival site links the ticket page for every date.The 7 November concert at the Auditorio de Tenerife lasts about 80 minutes, is for audiences aged five and over, and no one is admitted once the doors close.

Tickets

Tenerife.music is an independent live-music guide. For the organiser's complete official programme and terms, use the official links; the festival-day pages are our own editorial coverage.

More than music

  • Talks, film and fashion

    Talk

    Alongside the concerts the 2026 programme includes talks, a film screening, an exhibition, workshops, a fashion-themed talk cycle at Teatro Leal and a literary evening. They are not listed here as music days.

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About this festival

Brazilian-culture festival that brings concerts of Brazilian music to Tenerife venues each autumn.

MPB, samba, bossa nova, choro and Brazilian jazz.

Listeners of Brazilian music and jazz; mostly seated venue concerts.

Seated concerts in theatres, halls and clubs; tickets are sold per concert through each venue or seller.