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 ...

One night 10 years ago, Nuno Silva was in his hotel room while touring and could not sleep. “I turned on the television and I saw this woman singing fado on Jools Holland,” he says. “It was beautiful.

Los Angeles-based BODYTRAFFIC, named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2013, is an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company known for commissioning repertory from the world’s most ...

The UK premiere of a show melding Spanish flamenco, American jazz and Portuguese fado to create a new European sound takes to the stage on March 15. It will be the climax of the now well established ...

I was recently on a plane en route from Praia, Cape Verde to Lisbon and was sitting next to a Cape Verdean who’ve I’ve known for many years. He was the tour manager of the late Cesaria Evora, who ...

Every Sunday, 8pm: The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments performs dances and songs from Upper Egypt on mizmar, tabla and other traditional musical instruments. Every Friday, 8pm: “Alaragouz wa Khayal ...