More than 11 500 people saw last year "Fado in Chiado, an initiative that aims to promote the Portuguese fado and culture among tourists that visit the country.
Every day in the evening there is a different show in Cine Teatro Gymnasio, in Lisbon.
Luis Salgueiro, the Director of Media and Genius, which promotes this initiative makes...
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The Fonoteca Municipal, the “Difference and “iplay “will
present a showroom about ''As Divas do Fado''with journalists Nuno
Lopes and Manuel Halpern, the editor Samuel Lopes and the singer Ana
Laíns.
The theme will be “the presence and importance of women in fado and the
genesis of the latest edition of the''Divas''Fado, which have 4 albums,
72 songs from 36...
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The next day 25 March, the singer Joana Amendoeira will
participate in the celebrations of 50 years in Brasilia with the
presence of the ambassadors of all Portuguese-speaking countries at the
Centro Cultural do Banco do Brazil.
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Guitars, Portuguese guitar and classical guitars are the
stars of the festival “Friday, Midnight and One Guitar”, where
Portuguese musicians accompanied by other musicians and other art
forms, perform unique and exciting shows.
Lisboa is the city of guitars, enjoying its very own song that was born
with the guitar tradition. In addition to its link with Fado, where the
guitar...
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After Brazil and Galicia, where Raquel Tavares represented
Portugal in the most important festivals of the Lusofonia “Cantos
Maré”, the artist who is no longer a promise in fate, to be a
certainty, begins the year 2010 with a tour in Belgium, with 10
concerts.
The Severa of the XX century, as she was called by the press,
sings with her...
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Antonio Zambujo visited Brazil twice in 2009, the first time in June with several shows, to the presentation of the Brazilian edition of Outro Sentido (includes 3 bonus tracks with Ivan Lins, Renata Sá e Trio Madeira and Brazil Zé Renato) and more recently, in December with two concerts in Rio de Janeiro (Teatro Rival)...
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Katia Guerreiro is going again to foreign stages. This
time the destination is Germany, where she will celebrate her ten years
of career with a concert on January 27 at Chamber Music Hall, by the
invitation of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert is part of
the theme "Alla Turca: Orient and Occident Meet for Cultural Dialogue,"
and Katia will...
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With the entry of the new year we desire to hear more fado,
with a new force, or even with new arrangements. In addition to the
classics that are always with us, there is always a curiosity to hear
also new fados. New fados and new voices. For this reason the
www.fado.com dares to guess who will be successful...
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Always has been a “castiço” part in the voice of Katia, and
her background in traditional Portuguese music has a strong presence.
So we can’t be surprised with the energy in which she opens her new
album singing "Vira dos Malmequeres." Loose, lively, popular. But then,
in the next track, Katia turns from the marigolds to the beautiful and
solemn...
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