Biribá Union at Club Passim

On Tuesday, February 17, 2026, I streamed a great live concert at Club Passim by Biribá Union. See Club Passim’s publicity page for this concert.

This is the band’s self-description from their Bandcamp page:

Borrowing its name from a Brazilian wild sugar-apple, Biribá Union features Mike Block (cello, vocals), Christylez Bacon (beatbox, guitar, rhymes) and Patricia Ligia (electric bass, vocals). The trio draws on the freestyle theatrics of hip-hop and Go-go music; the effortless beauty of Brazilian forró and choro; the earthiness of American roots music, and the improvisational spontaneity of jazz.

Biribá Union has announced their new album, Pompano, but so far only the title track has been released.

At the beginning of the set, Mike Block announced that Claire Davis was substituting on bass for Patricia Ligia, who was on tour elsewhere (success is good). One of the tunes the band played was based on the bourrées in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3 in C major. I am waiting for the release of the full album to find this track since recently I have been studying and listening to Bach’s cello suites.

Biribá Union is one of several groups that Mike Block, a prolific and creative cellist, is a member of.