Tiago Bettencourt was the headliner for the second day of the Algarve festival FIGURAS À RAMPA, at Teatro das Figuras. The first part was in charge of the artist Nanook.
The FIGURAS À RAMPA festival is a partnership between Metrónomo, Teatro das Figuras and the Municipality of Faro as a response to the return of shows to the Algarve city, and includes names such as Tiago Bettencourt, The Legendary Tigerman, Captain Faust, NEEV and emerging local artists from 19th to 27th August.
Starting the second day of the festival, at 9:30 pm, Nanook took the stage. In a one-man-show format, artist Tércio Freire, aka Nanook, a native of the island of São Miguel who settled in the Algarve, performed at FIGURAS À RAMPA with engaging melodies, with blues and folk as a backdrop.“Mais perto, só”, “Eu ontem vi-te”, “Traça o mundo” and “O Risco” were part of the repertoire.
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”800″ gal_title=”Nanook @ FIGURAS A RAMPA 20210819 © Margarida Rodrigues – iNeews”]Tiago Bettencourt and his band, consisting of João Hasselberg on bass, Pedro Branco on guitar, João Lencastre on drums, and João Bernardo on keys, took the stage at around 22:40. Tiago, a musician from Coimbra who started his career with the group Toranja and now has 7 studio albums, presented at FIGURAS À RAMPA his most recent album “2019, Rumo ao Eclipse”, which was created before and during the pandemic.
We could listen to songs such as Viagem”, “Dança”, “Não Queiras Mais de Mim”, “Fachada”, “Lança”, “O Que For e o Que Virá”, “Maria”, “Só Mais Uma Volta”, “Não Queiras Mais de Mim”, “Laços”, “O Jogo”, “O Jardim”, “Carta” and“Morena”.
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”801″ gal_title=”Tiago Bettencourt @ FIGURAS A RAMPA 20210819 © Margarida Rodrigues – iNeews”]The festival continues until August 27th with The Legendary Tigerman and The Mirandas, on the 26th, and Capitão Fausto and Catalina, on the last day.
Tickets have a single price of €10, with a percentage of the revenue being given to the Associação Recreativa e Cultural de Músicos de Faro. All shows are being recorded and broadcast on Teatro das Figuras‘ social networks, so that as many people as possible can have access to these special FIGURAS À RAMPA concerts.
FIGURAS À RAMPA aims to respond to the Guaranty Culture Program in partnership with Teatro das Figuras and the Municipality of Faro, enriching the theater’s programming but also the city’s cultural offer, in a way to resume and return to shows. There is a strong investment in consolidated talent and in its combination with local artists chosen to integrate the program, selected from the projects participating in South Music.
These shows also involve teams, structures, suppliers, companies providing services in the audiovisual field, which thus have the opportunity to resume operations, promoting a gradual return to work in the sector. This project is translated into a collaborative effort with municipal entities, local and national press and contemplates direct support to an essential fabric, also in crisis: restaurants and hotels.
