Toronto is hosting its first-ever International Fado Festival, a three-weekend event uniting local fadistas with Portuguese stars. Fuelled by Hollywood moments and a new generation of artists, the ...

The music, traditionally performed in an intimate setting known as a "fado house," is guitar-based, and built around classical guitar and the notoriously difficult 12-string Portuguese guitar.

The unique music genre of fado is full songs and melodies conveying cravings and longing so intense, it can be traced back to 1820s Lisbon. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter Earlier this week, a ...

Fado is Portugal’s traditional folk music, Alfredo Gago da Câmara is one of its finest players. A musician, poet, teacher, author and composer, he’s travelled the world entertaining. Tomorrow night, ...

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The Portuguese genre Fado—which translates to “fate” or “destiny”—is analogous to (in American terms) a combination of folk-blues and cabaret song ...

As the first woman to professionally take up the Portuguese guitar, Lisbon’s Marta Pereira da Costa can fairly be described as a musical pioneer who has opened up new territory for female musicians.

It was a chance of a lifetime for music afficionadoes in the city to hear Sonia Shirsat, the country’s best Fado artiste sing at the Alliance Francaise recently. Well, if Fado is a closed book to many ...

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 ...

Jazz reinvents itself every day, in any way, like a chameleon transforms Itself to match its surroundings. It is thanks to this ability that jazz's place in the world has been firmly cemented; from a ...

It’s a pleasure to see new works that centre immigration stories and homecoming stories on Vancouver stages, and playwright Elaine Ávila, who’s of Azorean Portuguese descent, shares her cultural ...