Micareta
There are also micaretas, as they are called off-season Carnival. The micaretas are similar to the Bahian Carnival and very different from the samba school parades, popular in Rio de Janeiro. The micareta is like this: during the days of party, a huge truck (called "trio elétrico"), with a band on the top and sound boxes all around, drives slowly along the streets or enclosed space.
The crowd follows the trio elétrico singing, dancing, jumping to the sound of the music. To be allowed to follow the truck, one must buy admittance to one of the several "blocos" (block). A bloco is an enterprise which obtains permission to participate in micareta, hires the band, sells admittance and controls access.
Brazil has several micaretas that take place throughout the year in various cities. They can be done in the streets (traditional micareta) or in closed spaces surrounded (indoor micareta).
The first micareta happened in Feira de Santana, the second bigest city of the state of Bahia, because of a rain that destroyed everything that was made for the carnival, so they decided to change the date of it. The Micareta de Feira is one of the most important micaretas of Brazil.
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