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Alfama takes thousands to party fado – Reuters

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21/09/2014 13:38

Alfama takes thousands to party fado

Today the festival enlivened the streets of the typical Lisbon neighborhood.

If the evening of Friday favored the new voices that are renewing fado, last night was the turn of the consecrated animate the thousands of admirers who flocked to Alfama to the closing of the festival.

The popular Carminho showed on the main stage as the more traditional fado is in good hands, to second the great spectacle that Jorge Fernando had offered the same space an hour before.

Vincent Chamber, the nearly century-old Sportivo Adicense Group celebrated 65 years of career with a concert which was strongly emphasized the musicality of his aristocratic voice , before yielding the turn to Mary of Nazareth and Anita Guerreiro. Already the Church of St. Michael was the ideal place to get a Frei Hermano da Câmara much hailed scenario, while Aldina Duarte delighted in off the Alcaçarias.

Marco Rodrigues, rightly considered one of the great voices of the moment, joined dozens of fans at Stage Amalia, who still had the honor of welcoming the veteran Maria da Fé. Dr. Magalhães Lima Cultural Center was chosen for a tribute to the memory of Fernando Mauricio, one of the biggest names of stage popular Lisbon and parochial.


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