Salgueiro samba school members perform on the Samba Train celebrating National Samba Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2 Dec, 2023.

Video. WATCH: Brazilian musicians mark National Samba Day on train

Musicians, dancers and revellers perform for the "Samba do Trem" celebration on a train from Rio Central Station to Oswaldo Cruz, the samba's heart neighbourhood, for National Samba Day. 

Musicians, dancers and revellers perform for the "Samba do Trem" celebration on a train from Rio Central Station to Oswaldo Cruz, the samba's heart neighbourhood, for National Samba Day. 

The celebration is inspired by the train journey of Paulo da Portela with other samba musicians when they took trains to escape police amid repression of the music genre in the early 20th century.