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New Voices from Portugal: Fado with Marco Oliveira and Tânia OleiroSaturday, November 3, 8pmWiggin Auditorium/Peabody City Hall24 Lowell St., Peabody, MA 01960 Tickets: $35, open seatingBuy: http://tinyURL.com/Fado2018Reserve: Maria Silva 978-835-3156 https://www.facebook.com/events/245793556104154/ Award-winning Portuguese fado singers Marco Oliveira and Tânia C. Oleiro will be touring the U.S. in early November in support of their latest CD releases. Musical accompaniment will be by Marco Oliveira on viola and by Sandro Costa on Portuguese guitar. Fado from Portugal in Peabody, MA Marco Oliveira‘s two critically acclaimed records, Retrato and Amor é Água que Corre, chart fado’s topography in the modern world, his tales of longing (Portuguese saudade) unwinding through the labyrinth of Lisbon’s…
By: David Mendonça, Contributor (*) Article published 19 April 2018 By looking into fado’s past, one can see the future. In fact, the deeper one can see into the past, the further one can see into the future. At their Town Hall concert on 7 April, held as part of the 2018 New York City Fado Festival, Carlos do Carmo and Celeste Rodrigues brought roughly 120 years of combined experience to this deeply traditional yet startlingly innovative music. They marked out decades of experience and commitment that, paradoxically, also spoke to the eternal flexibility of this musical form. The set…
An amazing night of fado, organized by The Holy Spirit Brotherhood Committee of Saint Anthony’s Church, took place on December 2nd at Saint Anthony’s Parish Center in Pawtucket, RI. The hall was full of a mixed crowd of young and old listeners who came to experience fado, the soul of Portugal. Saint Anthony’s Parish Center in Pawtucket, RI. One of the event organizers, José Xavier along with his wife, Maria Anastacio Xavier, are this year’s mordomos. Together they make up a committee of approximately 45 members who are responsible for coordinating this year’s events including next year’s large Holy Spirit Feast. The…
The fado is holding steady, even flourishing, through Portugal’s fiscal crisis. In addition to plenty of music, there have been films, a play, books, and a number of notable events. Last year’s UNESCO designation of the fado as “world immaterial heritage and patrimony” has helped, as has a wave of solid fado records. But the successful UNESCO bid has also created some divisions. These are my personal favorites from a very busy year in the fado. An important caveat: I am not living in Portugal (though I did spend a couple of weeks there last year), and–despite the fado’s ever increasing…