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DokFest, Germany (2010) World Film Festival, Canada (2010) Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, Spain (2010) Play-Doc, Spain (2010) Africa in the Picture, The Netherlands (2009)
The Casa da Música is a concert hall in Porto, Portugal.It was designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2005.. Designed to mark the festive year of 2001 in which the city of Porto was designated European Capital of Culture, it was the first building in Portugal aimed from its conception to be exclusively dedicated to music, either in public performances or in the field of artistic ...
The Museum of Portuguese Music (Portuguese: Museu da Música Portuguesa) is a small museum housed in the Casa Verdades de Faria in Estoril, municipality of Cascais, Portugal, on the Portuguese Riviera. It contains a collection of Portuguese musical instruments and other items, as well as a music documentation centre, and is also used for recitals.
Manuel Correia (1600–1653), composer and kapellmeister at the La Seo Cathedral; King John IV (1603–1656), King of Portugal and early musicologist, with an essay on Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; João Lourenço Rebelo(1610–1665), composer close to John IV; Filipe da Madre de Deus (1633–1688), composer and kapellmeister of the royal ...
This is the list of best-selling albums in Portugal. Album Artist Released Sales Certification Feijão com Arroz ... Music from the Motion Picture: James Horner: 1997 ...
The Portuguese guitar is used for solo music (guitarradas) as well as the accompaniment, which it shares with a steel strung classical guitar (viola de fado) and occasional double bass or guitar-bass, and its wide repertoire is often presented in concert halls and in the context of classical and world music festivals all around the world. [2]
The Sudoeste Festival (Portuguese pronunciation: [suˈðwɛʃtɨ]), currently named MEO Sudoeste for sponsorship reasons, is a music festival that takes places annually since 1997, in August, in Odemira, in the southwest of Portugal.
"Grândola, Vila Morena" is an a cappella song, sung in the style of cante alentejano, which tells about the fraternity among the people of Grândola, a town in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Each quatrain of the song is first sung solo, and is followed by a quatrain that repeats the same lines in reverse order, this time sung by a choir.