May, 20th - Ouro Preto - Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo
Cortejo - Folia do Divino Espírito Santo de Lavras Novas
18h - Praça Tiradentes
Concerto – 19h – Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo

July, 06th - Sabará
Cortejo – Guarda de Marujos de Nossa Senhora do Rosário
19h - Praça Melo Viana
Concerto - 20h Teatro Municipal de Sabará

July, 08th – Barbacena
Cortejo - Banda de Congado de Sta Efigênia e de Nossa Senhora do Rosário
16h – Largo da Igreja do Rosário
Concerto – 17h – Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário

August, 11th – Belo Horizonte
Concerto – 20h - Teatro da Assembléia Legislativa de Belo Horizonte

September, 23th - São João del Rei
Cortejo – 17h - Mucambo de Maracatu - Em frente ao Teatro Municipal
Concerto – 18h – Teatro Municipal de São João del Rei

October, 20th - Nova Lima
Cortejo - Guarda de Marujos e Congadas de Nossa Senhora do Rosário
20h em frente a Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário
Concerto – 20h30 - Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário

The touristic Project of Estrada Real (Royal Road) involves more than 177 towns in Minas Gerais, RJ e SP. More than 1410 km of great touristic potential that, besides relating preservation and spreading of historical cultural heritage, can warm the tourism, providing work and wealth.

The road was built during Brazil colony to connect the ancient capital Villa Rica (Ouro Preto today) to the seashore so that the gold extracted from the mines was shipped to Europe. It´s formed by two roads: the old one which ends in Paraty, and the new one, that linked the gold mines to the future capital Rio de Janeiro. This path was altered later and extended to reach Diamantina.

The historcal towns situated around the road represent important part of National Cultural Heritage because of its churches, paintings, sculptures, museums, houses, hidromineral spots as well as its music, composed and executed by the local artists in that time.

The project Ancient Brazilian Music Concertos in the Royal Road Circuit in its second edition realizes a cicle of free concertos at historical spots of the towns located by the road. The repertoire of the concertos is based on brazilian music from XVI to XVIII centuries. This way, Cameratta Lusittana performs the Brazilian Colonial Music at the spot where it was originally composed and heard in the past.

The cicle takes place in Ouro Preto, Barbacena, Nova Lima, Sabará, São João del Rei and Belo Horizonte.

In Colonial Brazil, the great solemnities were preceded by feast and street cortege. According to the tradition, in every town a local folk group wil be invited to open the feast e lead the audience to the concerto.

In june 2004, the first edition of the project took place promoted by the Ancient Music Research group Cameratta Lusittana when the concertos passed by São João del Rei, Tiradentes, mariana and Ouro Preto, exclusively sponsored by USIMINAS through a state law of cultural incentive MG.