They are joining the descendants of Portuguese, Amerindian, and Negro to work creatively with the old instruments of expression — the Portuguese language and the Portuguese lyrical tradition.

In August 2024, the Jasper House Museum in Oranjemund, Namibia, unveiled a new exhibition dedicated to the artifacts recovered from the Bom Jesus, a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck discovered in ...

one of the three men from Madeira who came up with the notion of combining the features of the four-stringed traditional Portuguese instrument called the machete with the tuning of the five ...

The grandson of Portuguese immigrants ... which led him to learn how to play the cavaquinho, a traditional instrument used especially in Cape Verdean mornas and coladeiras. At age 20, he won ...

The grandson of Portuguese immigrants ... which led him to learn how to play the cavaquinho, a traditional instrument used especially in Cape Verdean mornas and coladeiras. At age 20, he won ...

"I think I'm embedded with that…it's a very Portuguese sensitivity." Much like Alegre, Leitao has been involved with music since he was just 10 years old, but found his love for the instrument viola ...

"I think I'm embedded with that…it's a very Portuguese sensitivity." Much like Alegre, Leitao has been involved with music since he was just 10 years old, but found his love for the instrument ...

The sound and the mix gave all the potential to each instrument.” The sounds of traditional Portuguese instruments were combined with those of non-staple fado instruments, such as the ...

The kids love it, many never having seen a cavaquinho (the Portuguese instrument that inspired the ukulele) or the traditional Portuguese Fado guitar. They get to strum along, eager to touch the ...