Novo Cais: Em Nome de Gisberta ¦ Cph Jazz Festival

Novo Cais Trio has performed at some of Copenhagen’s finest venues and has over time built an audience that comes specifically to experience authentic Brazilian music played with care and intelligence.

This evening, Novo Cais will pay tribute to the phenomenon of Gisberta Salce Júnior.

Gisberta Salce Júnior was a Brazilian trans woman who settled in Porto, Portugal – a performer, an artist, a woman who brought joy to those who knew her. Her story did not end as it should have: She died after a brutal hate crime in 20026. But her name did not disappear. It is remembered in songs, street names and in public memory. This concert celebrates not only the person Gisberta Salce Júnior, but also the dignity, resistance and love that her memory continues to evoke.

This concert tribute weaves together the greatest LGBTQ+ songs from five decades of MPB — Música Popular Brasileira.

The evening’s centerpiece is Pedro Abrunhosa’s “Balada de Gisberta” — the anthem against transphobia that has moved audiences across Brazil and Portugal.

Around that song, Novo Cais builds a program that celebrates the extraordinary tradition of queer-affirming voices in Brazil as well as Portugal.

Between songs, lead singer Daniel Boer Bonifacio — a Portuguese-Brazilian who is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community — will offer brief spoken reflections in English, connecting each piece to Gisberta’s story and the broader, living history of LGBTQ+ resistance in Brazil.

This is a celebration of life — and of the power of music to carry us through it all.

Line up

• Daniel Boer Bonifacio, vocal
• Martin Buono, guitar
• Alessandro Garau, trumpet and guitar

Cph Jazz Festival 2026 in Union

In Union, we invite you to enjoy a series of exciting eclectic concerts, which explore the borderlands of jazz. In other words, you should not expect traditional jazz, but rather a journey to the global roots of jazz.

- Concert start at 19:00.
- Ticket price: DKK 100.

Before each concert you can enjoy a delicious meal in our café Send Flere Krydderier, which serves flavors from all over the world.