Looking for pics of the festivities!!1 (Nero only FIDDLED!!1)
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http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/in-brazil-bush-plays-host-and-guest/n20070309180609990028.... After the stodgy news conference, Bush was ready to cut loose.
At a community center in Sao Paulo, the president was treated to a performance of a Brazilian samba by children.
Tired of standing along a wall, Bush shucked his coat, grabbed a Brazilian rattle known as a ganza, and shook it along to the music.
Soon first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined in for some dancing. The president's wife begged off for a bit until a young man joined her in a kind of slow-dance pose for the upbeat music.
Halfway through the second number of the wild production, drummers waved their sticks above their heads and pounded brightly colored drums.
"Oh yeah," President Bush hollered after the earsplitting finale.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21358627-401,00.html?from=public_rss.... As part of that public relations effort, he plunged into a group of Brazilian teenagers and joined them in playing pulsing samba music on Friday in Sao Paulo - the President's instrument of choice was shaking a "ganya," a silver cylinder that looked like a martini shaker.
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