Ideal Clube de Fado, in the city of Porto, will be presenting Portuguese Guitar Concerts from this month of July: the first concert will take place on the 24th of July, at 9 pm, with Ângelo Freire on the Portuguese guitar and Carlos Manuel Proença on the viola of fado, where the public will have the opportunity to listen to the classical repertoire for Portuguese guitar by composers linked to fado.
On the 24th and 25th of July, there will also be a joint Portuguese guitar and fado guitar masterclass with the two musicians.
Ângelo Freire is an outstanding and talented interpreter of the Portuguese guitar. In his journey he has performed hundreds of concerts where he accompanied the greatest artists of current fado, such as Ana Moura, Carlos do Carmo, Carminho, António Zambujo, and Mariza. With them, he played in the most prestigious venues in the world such as the Olympia, Carnegie Hall, Barbican Centre, Royal Albert Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Carlos Manuel Proença has stood out in the fado universe as a viola interpreter. He has already toured nationally and abroad, in shows by big names such as Carlos do Carmo, Camané, Ana Moura, Aldina Duarte, Carminho, Helder Moutinho, Cristina Branco, or Mísia.
Tickets cost €15 and can be purchased on the website – www.fado.club
The concerts are at 21:00 and a glass of port wine will be offered.
At Ideal Clube de Fado, the public can also attend poetry sessions sung in Traditional Fado, every last Wednesday of each month. Anyone who writes poetry can participate. Admission is free, and the objective is to recover the vital relationship between poets and fado singers. In these sessions, the way in which poetry relates to Traditional Fado is shared, and those who bring poems instead of reciting them, listen to fado singers singing them.
The Ideal Clube de Fado, located at number 32, Rua do Ateneu Comercial do Porto, is distinguished by its dedication to the preservation and dissemination of Traditional Fado. This style of fado, considered by some as pure fado, and by others as the most authentic tradition of classic fado, is characterized by poetic freedom and musical improvisation. They are the only professional project in the country with this orientation, that of singing only Traditional Fado.
