The Ribeira come up the Rabelo in Douro, not the Tagus frigates, and it is rare to hear the trill of a guitar or a vigorous voice echo in a fado house – though there are also. But between now and tomorrow the emblematic area of the historic center of Porto’ll look like the typical Lisbon quarter of Alfama
After the success in the first two editions, the country’s largest fado festival -. Cash Alfama laying around to be held between 18 and 19 September in the capital – came out of the box and came from Lisbon to debut at Invicta. And then on a large scale, with eleven stages, which will act today and tomorrow nearly fifty singers. The poster is enviable and has room for both new generation of talents and for established names as Camané, which closes the second night on the main stage – concert scheduled for midnight Saturday, after the performances of Gisela João and Maria da Fé -. and the DN states that these two days “Porto is the capital of the fado”
“The fado is a popular and urban music of Lisbon, but is very present also in Porto, which gave him big names like Maria of the Faith, which is part of the festival poster, or the late guitarist Fontes Rocha. After a difficult phase, young people again become interested in this music, which is a distinctive element of the country and returned to part of the lives of the Portuguese. Proof of this is the existence and growth of this festival, which only happens because there is public interest and that, not only in Lisbon, “said Camané also highlighting the framework of music and landscape, the festival promotes, as sought from the start the organization.
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