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The April edition of FLY magazine, Brazil, places the capital of Portugal in the spotlight with the dossier “Lisboa, a city of charms.”

They chose Café Luso to listen to “the beautiful Lisbon music that sings about sadness and induces hope”.

“Café Luso is the place where this beautiful tradition translates into feelings that feed the body and soul.”

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The Portuguese Revolution of 1974 will be remembered in Paris with a “freedom party”, a conference on the challenges of democracy, a “fado cabaret” and a concert of “fados de libertad.

There will be the concert entitled “Fados em Liberdade” organized by the association La Gauche Cactus’, with fados “old or recent linked to the theme of freedom” .’

“In the history of fado, before the dictatorship there were very militant fates, anarchists, communists and republicans. In fado, there has always been a political tradition. During the dictatorship, censorship had a role and the dictatorship instrumentalized fado, but even in associative nights of fado and in certain letters, there were people who did not agree with the dictatorship,”, said Jean-Luc Gonneau, vice president of the association.

In another initiative, the fado cabaret will be a mix between the fado house and the French cabaret. People will be sitting at round tables and listening to fado at the same time.

A gastronomic festival, held on April 23 in Lisboa, which branded a term: cooktivism.

This term sums up the attitude of those who promote activism in gastronomy.

It consists of what? Privileging national / regional ingredients, ingredients of small farmers / local producers.

Guests, Brazilian chef Alex Atala and Bo and Dylan, from Thailand.

Our chef Aléxis Gregório was there to watch.

The triple CD “Amália, É, Não É”, which includes unpublished works by Amália Rodrigues, from the period from 1968 to 1975, will be released in June (!). Frederico Santiago is the coordinator of the edition.

All of this material was recorded in the studios of Valentim de Carvalho, in Paço de Arcos, outside Lisbon, except four fados recorded in 1969, the second part of a performance by the fado singer at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon.

There is more than one, this one is in Oporto.

The House of the Guitar (Casa da Guitarra) is a store of musical instruments, especially dedicated to the chordophones (musical instrument of strings) of the traditional music.

Project Casa da Guitarra was conceived by Alfredo Teixeira, it was born in 2012 and its main intention is to create a space where the construction and dissemination of traditional Portuguese chordophones is promoted.