A new program is offering traditional Portuguese fado guitar lessons with world-famous performer Ricardo Parreira. Here's how ...

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 singer Carminho enters 2024 planning a new international tour, thinking about a new album, and reaping the rewards of appearing in Yorgos Lanthimos’ film “Poor Things,” which has received ...

"Poor Things" is a movie full of striking moments, but one of the most memorable is a musical performance from the singularly named Portuguese singer Carminho. As part of the film's Oscar-nominated ...

A happy, duly transfixed Lobero Theatre crowd was temporarily and attitudinally flown to Lisbon (a k a Lisboa) last week, thanks to the transporting power of the fado queen known simply as Mariza.

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.

Charismatic Mariza has sparked a stylish revival of Portugal’s national music back home, and now gives it a global twist After Portuguese fado star Mariza made her debut album independently, she went ...

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 ...