Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Central to fado music, and to the Portuguese psyche, are the ideas of saudade (melancholic longing) and the humbling hand of ...

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.

The unique music genre of fado is full songs and melodies conveying cravings and longing so intense, it can be traced back to 1820s Lisbon. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter Earlier this week, a ...

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Fado em Si Bemol formed in 2003. It started out as a project between good friends Paulo Gonçalves, Miguel Silva and Pedro Matos to explore the nontraditional sounds of the music throughout the world ...

In recent years, the melancholic Portuguese folk music known as fado has gotten a lot of play around the world. Many of the singers have stylized their songs to suit the tastes of an international ...

Fado is Portugal’s traditional folk music, Alfredo Gago da Câmara is one of its finest players. A musician, poet, teacher, author and composer, he’s travelled the world entertaining. Tomorrow night, ...

As the first woman to professionally take up the Portuguese guitar, Lisbon’s Marta Pereira da Costa can fairly be described as a musical pioneer who has opened up new territory for female musicians.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fado, the folk music of Portugal, has been enjoying a revival recently; perhaps its trademarked saudade, or ...

Jazz reinvents itself every day, in any way, like a chameleon transforms Itself to match its surroundings. It is thanks to this ability that jazz's place in the world has been firmly cemented; from a ...