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Manuel Simões born 100 years ago, a businessman who bet on Portugal and always dreamed of taking Portuguese music and culture, namely fado, further.

He founded the Estoril label, created the Ibéria record factory, opened the Discotheque of Carmo, a reference in the disc trade, and in 2001 he founded the Foundation with his name “so that fado is increasingly a national reference” with the Portuguese And foreigners, emphasizing that “fado is a treasure of our culture”.

Participating David Ferreira, Luis de Castro and Rosa Amélia Piegudo, moderation of Nuno Lopes.

There will be Fado sung by Anita Guerreiro, accompanied by António Parreira and Guilherme Carvalhais.

Tradition and Modernity, the essence of the 2017 Sintra Festival. Confronting Wim Mertens’s minimalism with the romantic pianism of Viennese classicism.

Austria has an important place, the Music for the international connections to Sintra. Present values ​​of the municipality, among them the Army Symphonic Band.

At the opening, tribute to the pianist Olga Prats.

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Lisboa Antiga emerged as a startup that proposed to mount guided tours so that visitors get to know the typical neighborhoods and the habits of the European peoples, holders of a rich and proud History.

“Fado, the city and the people are the central elements of the experiences that are proposed. The goal is to bring a new way of living the city and to make known the Fado – its history – and intrinsic connection to Lisbon.”

They propose a visit to several historical sites of the city and finish with a very Portuguese spectacle, in which absolute silence is demanded, the tour 7 Fados 7 Colinas. This show is the Fado Inside the Box, which takes place every day at Adega Machado, between 5.00 pm and 6 pm.

The 14th. IndieLisboa by Allianz continues to face serious and important challenges and, in its overtaking, solidifies the structure and enhances its vocation.

In 2017, IndieLisboa decided to pay homage to two great filmmakers, with a very diverse work, as is already the case of the heroes duo of the festival. Paul Vecchiali is French, 86 years old, has been filming for over five decades with more than fifty films in his extensive filmography. In partnership with the Cinemateca Portuguesa – Cinema Museum.

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In May we received two other promises from Fado, which for a month will have the opportunity to show themselves in a true Fado House, and to learn from generations of cast members.

This month, Sofia Calado Ferreira and Hugo Dinarte.