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This time in the Global Village the spotlight is on music from the Modern Mandolin Quartet. We’ll also hear pipa player Gao ...
Fusing Portuguese guitar melodies with Sufi verses The Newspaper's Staff Reporter Published May 29, 2025 0 ...
Austria's JJ has won the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with "Wasted Love." An estimated 160 million people from Europe and beyond were expected to tune in.
The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Tuesday with a semi-final filled with pyrotechnics, colour and a dramatic sweep of music, from Portuguese guitar ballads to banging Belgian techno.
Ben Chasny, aka Six Organs Of Admittance, and Portuguese guitarist Norberto Lobo, speak to Patrick Clarke about their new creative partnership, instigated during a Tremor Festival residency marking ...
Fadistas, as fado singers are known, are usually accompanied by musicians playing stringed instruments, including the iconic 12-stringed Portuguese guitar.
The show opened in near-darkness, the sound of a solitary Portuguese guitar emerging to pick out a glistening melody.
From the outset, Portuguese superstar Mariza seemed fated to become a fado singer – albeit one who has reinvigorated and transformed the country’s traditional musical style with influences ...
A Portuguese music festival is kicking off in Toronto on Friday, with performers bringing with them the sounds of tradition and experimentation.
A Portuguese music festival is kicking off in Toronto on Friday, with performers bringing with them the sounds of tradition and experimentation. The Why Portugal concert series is bringing 10 ...