Ramana Vieira of Vacaville, an internationally known singer of fado, a kind of Portuguese folk song, usually melancholic and nostalgic, calls the music “a window into the soul” of Portuguese people.

An American at the forefront of the fado, a type of melancholy Portuguese folk music, Ramana Vieira says her show Friday at Journey Downtown in Vacaville will be an example of “fado fusion.” The ...

Fado is a school of music and singing born of African and Brazilian roots, first flourishing in the port towns and poor, working-class neighborhoods of 19th-century Lisbon, Portugal. Like American ...

LISBON, PORTUGAL - Fado singers rarely find fame beyond Portugal's borders. The country and its traditional folk music are bound together so tightly it is hard to fathom one without the other. Then ...

PROVIDENCE — The 2025 International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA) will see some big names from the Portuguese-speaking world take the stage at the Providence Performing Arts Center on April 12. A ...

The Armenian Music Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) honored Hayrik Mouradian’s 120th anniversary ...