A series of Fado Nights will be held in the Praça do Município as part of this summer's Lisbon Festival. From 10pm, August 1st (Mafalda Arnauth), 2nd (Joana Amendoeira), 5th (Cristina Branco), 8th (Maria do Ceo), 9th (Helder Moutinho), 12th (Raquel Tavares) & 13th (Kátia Guerreiro)
Mafalda Arnauth is performing: 23 July - Mora (Alentejo, Portugal); 1st August - Lisbon (see above); and 15 Aug - Amsterdam.
Mariza's Portuguese tour dates: 23 Jul - Vilamoura; 1st Aug - São João da Madeira; 4 Aug - Manchico (Madeira); 14 Aug - Ponte de Lima; 4 Sep - Salvaterra de Magos; 18 Sep - Soure; & 14 Nov - Póvoa de Varzim.
The culmination of a project started in 2005, FADO is about to be formally entered as a candidate for potential inclusion in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The Nobel Prize winning writer José Saramago has died on the 18th of June at the age of 87 in Lanzarote where he lived for the last ten years of his life. Some of his ideas were not embraced by all sections of Portuguese society. He was best known to many in Britain for his participation - over 20 years ago - in the BBC language course "Discovering Portuguese".
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