In 2009, G.R.E.S. Acadêmicos do Salgueiro won first place in the Special Group Parade, the most important event in Rio de Janeiro Carnival.
Salgueiro was off to a promising start with the year's theme: Drum. The synopsis and parade plan by Renato Lage, Salgueiro's carnavalesco, or Carnival director, explored the importance of the drum in human history and underlined its significance to Brazilian heritage, especially in the connections with Africa.
In the parade, Mestre Marcão and his drum section, known as "A Furiosa", evoked the ogãs - the drums which set the ritualistic rhythm in the afro-Brazilian candomblé religion.
The school paraded with 4,100 people in 36 alas, (sections) to the sound of the Drum samba-enredo written by Moisés Santiago, Paulo Shell, Leandro Costa e Tatiana Leite, one of the best in all-time Rio de Janeiro Carnival.
View photos of Salgueiro in the parade which granted the school its ninth title as champion of Rio's main Carnival parade.
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