Fado is a style of Portuguese music that is impossible to define. The only way to even begin to understand fado is to hear it. So Carlos Saura doesn’t try to define it. In his documentary “Fados,” ...

The vocalist, coming to Jones Hall on Nov. 12, is at the forefront of a new generation that is reviving the centuries-old ...

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 ...

Having made gorgeous, erotic, bluntly titled performance films about flamenco (1995’s “Flamenco”) and tango (1998’s “Tango”), Spain’s Carlos Saura aims his gaze at Portuguese fado singing. Like those ...

ON SULTRY summer nights, the passionately mournful fado music drifts out of bars and nightclubs in Lisbon. It’s urban music of the Portuguese soul, longing for lost love and lost chances. A singer, ...

The UMass Lowell Saab Center for Portuguese Studies, in partnership with Portuguese / American Cultural Exchange (PACE), hosted “Sounds of Portugal: A Concert by Joana Amendoeira and Duarte”, at the ...

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” ...

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 sweeps in with regal dignity, the very image of a diva, her sumptuous black dress gently caressing the stage floor, her short, light blond hair and slim figure making an arresting sight. Mariza, ...