The singer from Lisbon showed off her powerful vocals, proving that microphones and amplification to be unnecessary luxuries.

In recent years, the melancholic Portuguese folk music known as fado has gotten a lot of play around the world. Many of the singers have stylized their songs to suit the tastes of an international ...

The music, traditionally performed in an intimate setting known as a "fado house," is guitar-based, and built around classical guitar and the notoriously difficult 12-string Portuguese guitar.

Local Portuguese artist, Catarina Avelar, keeps the heart and soul of Portugal alive in the New Bedford area. Avelar is a Fado singer and a child protective social worker in Fall River; she graduated ...

I’m writing this from Lisbon, Portugal, where my wife and I have been visiting her daughter, who lives here part of the year. At the same time, I’ve been thinking about all of you back home dealing ...

She takes the stage with elegant majestic appearance, short platinum hair and a magnificent black evening gown. Her three guitarists, already seated across the stage, await her arrival at center stage ...

Portuguese singer Carlos do Carmo, one of the country's most beloved artists who was known as the "Sinatra" of the soulful, melancholic fado music, died on Friday at the age of 81.

International Fado sensation Mariza will visit Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts as part of her North American tour on Sunday, Oct. 23, in support of her new album “Mundo” ...

PROVINCETOWN — Liliana de Sousa remembers listening to the distinctly melancholy sounds of her sister-in-law singing fado to her brother when they were children living in the small town of Olhão in ...

Date and time: Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7 p.m. Tickets: Concert only: $30; Concert and pre-show reception with the artists at the Atrium of the Health & Social Sciences Building: $100 Tickets can ...