Rio de Janeiro Nightlife Guide for Sunday, May 10, 2026

The Rio Times · RT Nightlife Desk

DIA DAS MÃES · QUARTETO INDIARA at Theatro Municipal Assyrio 11h · PEDRA DO SAL Sunday roda from 18h · BLUE NOTE RIO Sunday from 13h Copacabana brunch · CARIOCA DA GEMA dark Sunday · RIO SCENARIUM dark Sunday · 26 °C · 20 % rain · Mon May 11 · 21 °C · 35 % rain · Pedra do Sal Monday canonical roda 19h–midnight

Quarteto Indiara — Música no Assyrio at Theatro Municipal
11h · R$25 · Mother’s Day morning · Centro

The Mother’s Day morning concert. Quarteto Indiara — violino, violão, clarineta, violoncelo — at the Assyrio salão of the Theatro Municipal. Eclectic repertoire across genres. Praça Floriano s/nº — Centro, entrada pelo Boulevard da Av. Treze de Maio. Metro Cinelândia.

Pedra do Sal — Sunday Roda
From 18h · Free · Saúde cobblestones

The Saúde Sunday roda. Third of the four active Fri–Mon nights — easier to navigate than Monday’s canonical roda, more intimate than Friday or Saturday. Free, outdoor, on the cobblestones at Largo João da Baiana. R. Tia Ciata — Saúde.

Blue Note Rio — Sunday Brunch + Afternoon
From 13h · Copacabana · Av. Atlântica 1910

The praia-side Mother’s Day option. Casa opens 13h with brunch and live Sunday programming on the eighth floor, windows over Copacabana. The Av. Atlântica 1910 sit-down format with kitchen and bar, the long Sunday lunch.

The morning’s Mother’s Day anchor and the day’s most distinctive cultural booking. The Música no Assyrio programme at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro presents the Quarteto Indiara — an unconventional chamber formation pairing Marluce Ferreira (violino), Fernando Vilela (violão), Thiago Tavares (clarineta) and Lylian Moniz (violoncelo). All four perform in the city’s principal symphonic ensembles — the OSB, the OSTM (Theatro Municipal’s own orchestra) and the Petrobras Sinfônica — and use the Indiara project to step out of those formal contexts and into a room-sized, accessible Sunday-morning format. The instrumentation is the point: violino, violão, clarineta and violoncelo is not a standard quartet, and the unusual combination lets the group move between classical, popular Brazilian and crossover repertoire without strain. The Assyrio sits underneath the Theatro Municipal proper, accessed via the Boulevard side on Av. Treze de Maio. Doors open ahead of the 11h concert; tickets R$25. Ideal Mother’s Day plan: morning concert, lunch in Centro or Lapa afterwards (Confeitaria Colombo on R. Gonçalves Dias is the historical Sunday-lunch carioca answer for this neighbourhood, just blocks away). Metro Cinelândia directly underneath.

The Sunday roda at the historical Pequena África site. Pedra do Sal runs Friday through Monday, free, outdoor, on the cobblestones at Largo João da Baiana in the Saúde neighbourhood. Sunday is the third of the four active nights — slightly busier than Friday and Saturday because Monday’s canonical roda draws so heavily from the same pool, but still well below the Monday peak. Tonight’s roda gathers from 18h and runs through the evening on the bar terraces around the largo. The site is recognised as Território Remanescente de Quilombo Urbano by the Fundação Cultural Palmares (2005) and as carioca cultural patrimony — the place where Tia Ciata, João da Baiana, Donga and Pixinguinha gathered in the early 20th century to develop the genre that defines the city. Bars and barracas around the largo handle food and drink (cash works best, low prices, caipirinha and cerveja). Mother’s Day plan: lunch in Zona Sul or Centro, evening Pedra do Sal. Sturdy shoes for the cobblestones. Phone in front pocket. The return is by taxi from the Largo, not on foot through Centro after dark on Sunday.

The praia-side Mother’s Day option, and the day’s main sit-down family booking on the Av. Atlântica strip. The Blue Note Rio casa opens at 13h on Sundays with the standard Sunday format: brunch service, the kitchen running through the afternoon, live music programming on the salão de shows stage with the windows behind the band open over Copacabana. The eighth-floor room at Av. Atlântica 1910 sits across from Copacabana Palace, with the praia view through the panoramic windows. Mother’s Day in Copacabana means the venue runs near or at booking capacity from early afternoon — reservations strongly recommended for tables, particularly for the Praia-side window seats. The casa runs piano bar and gastronomia continuously through the afternoon; bar and snack service runs without ticket on the calçadão level. The route from Centro after the Theatro Municipal Quarteto Indiara morning is direct: Metro Line 1 from Cinelândia to Cantagalo or Siqueira Campos, ten minutes total. The casa is the most polished Mother’s Day option for those who want the praia framing without the chaos of a full Copacabana megaevent.