On Saturday, our trip began with the new hope, in the Stage Box in the Future. It was not easy finding the space, hidden between alleyways, but we won the challenge. We checked in at Sociedade Boa União, where the young Beatriz da Conceição alternated every fifteen minutes with the young Rodrigo Figueira. Presented especially a repertoire that is more classical, where there was no lack in the feminine voice of The House of Mariquinhas and Lisbon don’t be French.
we Left early so as not to lose the Maria Ana Bobone in the Church of san Miguel, but the queue already if amontoava, even with so much advance. “It is exhausted” we’ve heard a few times before reading the words in the hand of the security refused to let in whoever it was, for sorrow and irritation of many who paid 38€ (or €45 on the same day) and did not expect to hit the ball with the nose in the door. In fact, neither the press came in.
we Had to give up and went to mark’s place in the concert of Marco Rodrigues, at the Cultural Center Dr. Magalhães Lima. After you ask for directions and we venture for a brave ascent, we are faced with another large queue. This time, however, it seems that the press is welcome, and we were able to watch from the beginning. At 22h02 come the musicians, but you don’t see a singer close by. Suddenly you start to hear it, in an ode to Lisbon, with a mixture of doubt as to whether it will be him and where it will be. Until the attention is turned to the desk in the front of the stage, on the opposite side. At the end of the song, enters the stage and is welcomed warmly.
viola, sings to life and sings the lucky, happy to be in a festival fully dedicated to the fado. Themes that are not lacking Ai If My Eyes could Talk, The Man from Saldanha square – a tribute to the lord goodbye -, “Rosinha dos Limões”, the "compulsory" Lisbon Girl and young Woman, who asked the cooperation of the public and Not to the Walls I Confess, that had the harmonic of Gonzalo, a guest from last time. We heard complaints coming out of those who could not secure a place, while the singer told the story of how she met George and invited him to play the harmonic in this concert.
Not waited for the encore to save time and sang soon the fate of the Student. “We end up in great,” she said. And fulfilled. Despite being a travelling festival that invites you to go through various stages, from the concert of Marco Rodrigues no one arredou foot.
In the same room, a little after, he entered Aldina Duarte, accompanied only with the Portuguese guitar and viola. Thanked them for what the festival provides: to give a voice to fado and in the different spaces. Now sitting, now standing, smile on his face and in his voice, but with the sad song on the tip of the tongue served several songs more sentimental, with simplicity and grace.
Without problems of space, the Stage Box received all who wanted to enter with open arms. the Raquel Tavares was the protagonist when we arrived and the audience was already won. After chanting "our Lady of Deliverance", the singer pays tribute to the Alfama – already feel alfamense despite having been born at the Top of the Pina –, to the women of Alfama and the Mary of Faith. Throughout the show switched songs and stories, and one of the stories brought a recording of his with eleven years, which then continued on the stage.
My Love from Far away, the theme of the presentation of his third album raquel was sung twice, and were the high points of the concert, with the audience to be part of the theme. For the encore left the Strange Way of Life, wearing the shawl, in heart-felt tribute to the fado.
Raquel Tavares has fado in the soul, or the soul in the fado, which in this case will give practically the same.
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