The East Hampton Star, April 13, 2006
Dalton Portella and the Bastards of Boom
by Jennifer Farbar

Incorporating vocals and guitar, Mr. Portella and his bandmates started getting together to play an “adulterated” form of the samba music played by the Escola de Samba Boom, in which guitar and vocals would be included. (Traditional samba music features neither.) They called themselves the Bastards of Boom. Read more...

Confetti, August 1992
Mixed Messages
by Roger Armbrust

It was the mid-1980's. Dalton Portella, a fine artist concerned about financial survival, was exploring options. Lack of funds had forced him to abandon art design school five years earlier, and he had established some monetary security with a color retouching firm, bleaching and blending hues on transparencies. At home in his free time, he explored watercolors and mixed media. Read more...

The East Hampton Star, Sept. 6, 2001
Dalton Portella: Art With A Difference
by Russell Drumm

Dalton Portella stood in the chaos of his small studio just off Old Montauk Highway in Montauk on Sunday and beat with a stick on the single string of a berim bau, a mostly percussive Brazilian instrument that looks, with its half-coconut-shell sound box, bamboo neck, and metal string, like a MARRYING of a crossbow and a hookah pipe. Read more...