It all started when a Rio went to visit in Olinda, Pernambuco city that UNESCO declared world heritage site in 1982. The carioca, Lu Araujo, had gone out to see a bit of Carnival after Carnival. In the Largo da Sé “was riding the potato cod, a block [Carnival] wait “, which made the party after seeing the party of others. In the near corner of the church, some young people drinking and talking. One of them, after taking a drink in the bottle, threw it against the centuries-old doors of the building. Seeing the glass shatter, Lu Araujo felt shocked. “Offended” even. “Why did that young man who was the fun in that place, which is only one place for the history that has made it?”. This question was the beginning of everything.
“How do you occupy the property? How do we intervene in it? How to make it meaningful to those who listen and those who play? “. Was trying to address these issues that led to the start of Mimo, music festival (and not only) with close links to heritage, which was first held in Olinda in 2004 and, after growing steadily in Brazil by extending to other cities, such as Ouro Preto, Tiradentes, Paraty or Rio de Janeiro, arrives this year north of Portugal, Amarante, the city of Amadeo de Souza Cardozo and Teixeira Pascoaes, the city of St. bridge Goncalo over the Tâmega that was the scene of heroic resistance during the Napoleonic invasions. There is a long story of how Mimo came to Amarante. Long is also a list of upcoming events for the next three days, all free entry.
Among this Friday, the 15th and Sunday the 17th, we will hear Tom Zé (Friday, 0h30) and the guitar and piano Egberto Gismonti (Friday, 20.30). Among many others hear Custodio Castelo in the Church of St. Peter (Saturday 16h), Vieux Farka Touré, the Malian guitarist, son of the legendary Ali Farka Touré (and it shows), in Riverside Park (Saturday, 22.30) or in the same site, a homecoming of Almeidinha, created by Brazilian music Hamilton de Holanda, who, guided by his “turbo” mandolin ten strings, will travel between the music of Brazil and notes from other latitudes – from 0h30, are prom invited to Spanish Silvia Perez Cruz, the Portuguese Miguel Araújo or the Cape Verdean musician, and former Minister of Culture of the country, Mario Lucio Sousa. Sunday’s meeting between the pianist Mário Laginha and Pedro Burmester (20h) and between guitarist Pat Metheny and bassist Ron Carter, as of 21:45, will close with key-of-thumb the first Portuguese Mimo.
When started in Olinda, the festival was dedicated entirely to instrumental music, mainly classical. However, “the third or fourth edition,” Lu Araujo began to see as among the mostly adult audience began to emerge a young audience. This allowed this ancient artistic producer, agent, for example, Zeca Baleiro, and left the music industry when the crisis fell heavily on her, make the leap he wanted. “I wanted a festival that messed with the past, but also had one foot in front.” Thus became the Mimo, door space open to the heritage of the cities that host, lounge area between jazz of Chick Corea, the “Santeria” Chuchu Valdez or the classical piano Nelson Freire.
a week before the start of the festival, Lu explains Araújo who does not know “exactly define what Mimo” “He is changing, will adding, is a gathering of many things.” We talked of music, but the festival is not limited to show it on stage. Vieux Farka Touré will make a workshop on the blues of the desert, the moon Marcelinho have another on “Creative Processes in Electronic Music”. Pedro Burmester give you a masterclass piano. Tom Joe and Mario Lucio Sousa will expose his wisdom and artistic sensibility in the Forum of ideas. and there will be cinema with the projection in Pascoaes Teixeira film documentary about Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, on the Tropicália, Antonio Carlos Jobim or on one of the greats festival, Tom Zé – and to say a rain of Poetry, a classic Mimo, who will descend from the heavens, in the courtyard of the Church of San Lorenzo Sunday, Mario poems of Sá-Carneiro, Mário Cesariny and António Maria Lisboa ?
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