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 ...

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.

Carlos Paredes, 79, a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, died Friday at a retirement home in Lisbon after a prolonged bone illness and diabetes. Paredes was born in Coimbra and started playing the ...

Marta Pereira da Costa is truly one of a kind. The Lisbon native is the first and currently only professional female fado guitarist in the world, and she will be bringing her music to The Narrows ...

Searching the Internet for information about the Portuguese folk music known as fado yields few conclusive answers as to its origins. Although most sources seem to agree that it first gained ...

The Portuguese word fado means fate. Fado songs have a reputation for being mournful and full of tragic stories about destiny -- a kind of Portuguese folk music that many people liken to American ...

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, ...

I’m writing this from Lisbon, Portugal, where my wife and I have been visiting her daughter, who lives here part of the year. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about all of you back home dealing ...

FALL RIVER – A musical pioneer, Marta Pereira da Costa said she has found her voice in the Portuguese guitar. The first woman to professionally play the Portuguese guitar in fado, the Lisbon native ...