With the Christmas / New Year break behind us, everybody involved in the project is working hard towards the "main event" in March. The Brazilian musicians have met for their first musical session and the Scottish musicians meet later in January to rehearse for the first time. This will happen during the ´Celtic connections` Scottish music festival, an exciting and intense couple of weeks of music which takes place in Glasgow every January. Look at the website: http://www.celticconnections.co.uk for more information. Our ´roving reporter` Patricia Souza will be there for a few days and will send reports and photos to the MPB-BPM website. Read about other new developments below.