Rain of flowers fell over Alfama – Daily News – Lisbon

It was eight in the evening and in the Largo
 Fountain Inside a crowd watching the March of Alfama, which
 thus inaugurating the second edition of Box Alfama. Tourists
 Lisbon’s Portuguese and other corners of the country invaded during
 hours corners of the Lisbon neighborhood, treading the narrow streets in
 search of the beloved singer, always map in hand. “If it were not
 this never ever would know all these places or even walked by
 these streets, “commented the DN of the thousands of fans of fado
 that on the night of Friday flocked weight in Alfama.
 

In Sportivo Adicense Group, climbing a
 narrow staircase, he met the young Carmo Pereira Moniz, who
 took the makeshift stage passing between people who filled this
 space. Needed no microphones or sound amplification,
 singing as formerly sang fado, eye to eye with the
 public without effects or artifices. So threw the Viuvinha ,
 fado Jaime Santos, made famous in the voice of Amalia Rodrigues. Such as
 Amalia also Carmos Moniz Pereira tried to interpret verses
 Fernando Pessoa in traditional fado, having given voice to the poem
 Who Was That Me exchanged .

There were many singers who dominated
 this first day Cash Alfama and the limited time. Enough
 near the Sportivo Adicense find the Largo Group of
 Alcaçarias, where he premiered the Urban project. Carminho that this
 night will close the festival on the Stage Box, was in the audience,
 that did not shy away from singing with the young singers that integrate this
 project, designed by guitarist Diogo Clemente, among them Peu
 Madureira, Diogo Rocha, Zé Maria Souto Moura, Rodrigo Rebelo de
 Andrade and Bruno Fonseca.

jumped up to the Church of San Miguel
 and the way the fate continued to hear the many fado houses of
 Alfama, where you can almost draw a parallel path to the festival. And there are many who stop outside of restaurants
 to hear more castiço that there fado is sung between tables
 filled with delicacies from traditional Portuguese cuisine.

As the church a place of worship
 religious, the relation of fate with the faith was at the center of
 spectacle presented, Singing is Praying , attended again
 Carmo Pereira Moniz, but also Matilde Cid and Francisco
 Salvation Barreto.