Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Lisbon is the city of fado,” says Portuguese singer Carminho. “You have to experience it when you're there.” Carminho, who ...

“Lisbon is the city of fado,” says Portuguese singer Carminho. “You have to experience it when you're there.” Carminho, who recently collaborated with Rosalia on the song “Memória” and released her ...

A new program is offering Portuguese guitar lessons from renowned performer Ricardo Parreira. The project aims to preserve the fado tradition in the United States. Lessons will be held virtually and ...

That's the first thing to notice about Portuguese fado, the dramatic, tear-stained music born many generations ago - perhaps in the 1820s, but some claim earlier - on the crowded streets of Lisbon's ...

The music, traditionally performed in an intimate setting known as a "fado house," is guitar-based, and built around classical guitar and the notoriously difficult 12-string Portuguese guitar.

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s nearing midnight in Alfama, Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhood, when a lady in black steps into a taverna. The bar staff scurry to turn ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and bohemia. With a new state-of-the-art exhibition celebrating fado’s greatest ...

For the second consecutive summer, Minos Matsas returns to the stage of the Herodion to share his interpretations of well-known musical traditions from Greece and around the world. The new cycle of ...

The 8th season of the Jazz Club at Ljubljana Castle will see a line-up of acclaimed musicians and bands from Slovenia and abroad perform concerts every Friday night between 13 September and 27 ...

Fado – the traditional Portuguese singing style – defies definition; it is purely and uniquely fado. So it was a huge privilege to attend the sold-out performance of ‘Mais Que Fado’ with Cristina ...