Clube Lisboa Amigos do Fado is both a music school and a fado house where hundreds of fado singers have honed their voices. The club has hosted performances by artists like Amália Rodrigues ...

Folk musician came to town to make an EP with Steve Albini, hoping the producer would bring out her "punk side." ...

Thurs 5, 7-8pm: "Portugal-Spain: 50 Years Culture and Democracy" event presents a musical fusion show of “De Cabo a Fado" ( ...

A symbol of identity, Fado music is widely sung in Lisbon and represents a distinctly Portuguese multicultural synthesis of Afro-Brazilian music, local genres of song and dance, rural music, and urban ...

Fado, the melancholic but strong and proud vernacular music born in the Alfama and Mouraria districts of Lisbon, is an acquired taste among “world music” fans, but once acquired, can be a love until ...