Music Tours

Memphis music stop on the Musical Getaways Sounds of the South tour

Memphis or Nashville: Which Music City Should You Visit?

Memphis and Nashville are separated by a few hours of highway but tell different stories about American music. Choose the city that matches what you want to hear and understand.

Afro-Bahian cultural procession in Salvador during a Musical Getaways Brazil journey

How to Spend 10 Days in Brazil: Rio, Salvador and Recife

Ten days is enough to connect three distinct Brazilian musical cities if you fly between them and protect the pace. This route moves from Rio's samba to Salvador's Afro-Bahian culture and Recife's frevo and maracatu.

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Thirty Years of the Petronio Álvarez Festival: A History of Pacific Music in Cali

The Petronio Álvarez Festival began in 1997 as a small-scale competition in Cali, Colombia. Founded by historian Germán Patiño Ossa, its original goal was to provide a dedicated stage for the music of the Colombian Pacific, a region historically isolated from the country’s interior.

A perspective view of the Escadaria Selarón in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, showing the famous staircase covered in vibrant yellow, green, and blue mosaic tiles with several tourists and locals on the steps.

Brazil Named Travel + Leisure’s 2026 Destination of the Year

Brazil’s geography is as vast as its musical catalog, ranging from the baroque colonial influences in Minas Gerais to the complex, polyrhythmic traditions of the Northeast and the avant-garde experiments in the southern metropolises.