Meet Sonia Shirsat: The Ambassador of Goan music to the world. Fado is a form of traditional Portuguese music dating back before the 19th century. It is arguably the oldest urban folk music in the ...
Ana Moura sits in a restaurant in downtown Lisbon explaining how she was always destined to be a fado singer, she just hadn't always realised it. "We have this saying in Portugal: you have to be born ...
Set sail for a musical cruise along the Marne on April 19 and October 11, 2026. Enjoy the soulful sounds of Portuguese guitar and fado in a timeless on-the-water concert departing from ...
Listening to Portuguese fado singer Mariza, it's really hard not to be taken away by her passionate singing, charismatic stage presence, and sly sass. Yet, beneath her almost fragile and gentle ...
Vacaville’s own fado chanteuse, Ramana Vieira will add Portguese spice to a holiday-themed performance Thursday night in the Vacaville Museum. While fado (literally “fate” in Portuguese) will be ...
The music group is rewriting traditional Portuguese fado songs into anti-discrimination anthems for 2019 – and has a growing following Tiago Lila and João Caçador, musicians and activists in a group ...
In recent years, the melancholic Portuguese folk music known as fado has gotten a lot of play around the world. Many of the singers have stylized their songs to suit the tastes of an international ...
As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here’s one of my favorite European memories–a reminder of the fun that ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Fado’s roots are Irish, but its future is more European ...