Event
ÂNGELO FREIRE
May 24th 9pm . CCBEvent
FILIPA VIEIRA
May 20th . 9 pm . Maria Matos TheatreEvent
BEATRIZ FELÍCIO
June 21st . 9 pm . Centro Cultural de Belém
Digital Sound Archive
Listen to historic moments online.
Fado Route
Meet fado in Lisbon.
Fado is meant to be felt,
not understood,
or explained.
not understood,
or explained.
- Amália Rodrigues
An interactive museum to see, hear and feel Fado - Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Discover centuries of history and personalities that still reinvent and keep this heritage alive today. Visit us.
Get to know who sings, who plays and the history that unites all of us.
Personality of the Week
Óscar Cardoso9 May, 1960
Óscar Manuel Barbedo Cardoso was born in 1960 and has been working in string instrument’s restoring and manufacturing for 35 years. He began making instruments in 1990. He is a “Guitarreiro” (luthier). He learned his craft with his father, the luthier Manuel Cardoso, whose workshop at Casal do Privilégio, in Odivelas, he still runs today. He was approximately 8 years old when he started to look for the toys he wanted to play with at his father’s workshop: tools.
