Fado is a type of traditional Portuguese singing and is making a return to the stage at Vancouver's Firehall Arts Centre. Elaine Ávila, a Portuguese-Canadian playwright, talks about the inspiration ...

It's said that the fascist dictatorship that dominated Portugal for nearly half a century was bolstered by the three Fs - football, Fatima and fado. Football was best exemplified by the all-conquering ...

It was a chance of a lifetime for music afficionadoes in the city to hear Sonia Shirsat, the country’s best Fado artiste sing at the Alliance Francaise recently. Well, if Fado is a closed book to many ...

Twelve-year-old Samhaira Furtado’s powerful rich voice intoned the lyrics of a classic Portuguese fado, Cancao do Mar or song of the sea, as she rehearsed before the elimination round of a fado ...

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 ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and bohemia. With a new state-of-the-art exhibition celebrating fado’s greatest ...

In a small intimate room at Madragoa, the Casa do Fado (Home of Fado) in Panjim, with the audience seated and lights dimmed, Sonia Shirsat’s powerful voice pierces through the stillness. The ...