GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 15, 2026
The daily music geography game: five clues about where music history happened. Try them yourself first, then reveal the answers.
▶ Play this round Play today's roundOscar Niemeyer designed this 1984 parade stadium where top samba schools compete every Carnival.
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📍 Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · map
The parade avenue is about 570 m long, and a school with 115 classrooms was built under its stands.
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In 1953, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach recorded a famous live album in this hall.
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📍 Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · map
A boxing match on the same night kept the crowd small. Parker is listed as 'Charlie Chan' on the album for contract reasons.
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Home city of Falco, whose Rock Me Amadeus is still the only German-language US No. 1 hit.
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📍 Vienna, Austria · map
The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 29 March 1986. Falco was born Johann Hölzel in Vienna's Margareten district.
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On this day in 1938, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti was born in this city.
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📍 Abeokuta, Nigeria · map
He was born into the Ransome-Kuti family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a famous women's rights activist.
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Rainforest World Music Festival has been held since 1998 at a cultural village at the foot of Mount Santubong.
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📍 Sarawak Cultural Village, Santubong (near Kuching), Malaysia · map
Only about 300 people came in 1998. By 2024 the festival had more than 26,000 visitors.
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On this day in 2022, BTS played a free concert, 'Yet to Come', at this city's main stadium.