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Everything you need to know about the concerts and festivals scheduled for the coming months: an agenda that is constantly being updated
The banks of Porto and Gaia will unite in a performance that brings together Art and Literature.
Over five days, 17 outdoor stages with free entry throughout. This year's edition includes national premieres and a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April.
The 34th edition of Expofacic begins on July 30th and runs until August 9th. The event will feature around 200 shows, more than 600 exhibitors from various sectors, and fifty food stalls.
The 25th edition of the festival takes place on June 19th and 20th in Glória do Ribatejo, featuring names such as B Fachada and Expresso Transatlântico, with the addition of free concerts.
From entertainment to innovation, Rock in Rio continues to reinvent itself. Luís Soares reveals what to expect from the next edition and the challenges that accompany it.
With less than two weeks to go before the start of the MED Festival, Loulé is already beginning its transformation into one of Europe’s most distinctive world music destinations. From The post Loulé prepares for biggest and most international MED Festival yet appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The premieres of O Beijo no Asfalto and O Cavalo, the Espinho International Music Festival, the Trengo circus, and the new Bairro Festival are highlights for the coming days.
In one of the most scenically radical shows ever presented in Portugal, MXGPU, an electronic music duo featuring Moullinex and GPU Panic, showed at Primavera Sound Porto what music made in Portugal can aspire to when thought of on a grand scale: from the skies of Porto (or Lisbon), this duo can go anywhere.
In their tenth foray into Portugal in just eight years (with a pandemic in between), IDLES were in perfect communion with the crowd that headed to Primavera Sound Porto to see the English band and hear songs descended from punk and phrases against rampant fascism: they are no longer an ‘underground’ band, they are true idols.
Trump, Putin and Netanyahu. Palantir, Amazon and Elon Musk. Wars, numbers and AI. All this and the wonderful songs of Massive Attack in an hour and a half of reality that feels like fiction and a show that dresses itself as an act of resistance. On stage with them, a treasure named Elizabeth Fraser, the otherworldly voice of Horace Andy and the salvational spirit of Deborah Miller
Alfama won this year's edition of the Marches, but in terms of enthusiasm, everyone was a winner.
Northern Portugal is preparing to host what organisers describe as the largest aviation and aerospace event ever staged in the country, with the inaugural AIR INVICTUS festival set to take The post World’s top aerobatic pilots head to Porto for AIR INVICTUS appeared first on Portugal Resident.
There are several themes presented by the groups, but only the top three are awarded prizes.
Avenue parades and street parties drew thousands to the streets to celebrate the Popular Saints until dawn.
Throughout the month of June, Lisbon turns into an open-air festival. The narrow streets of Lisbon fill with Portuguese locals and foreigners who arrive early and promise to stay until dawn. While some dance, others work behind the counters and grills. On the night of Santo António, the capital trades silence for music and becomes the city that never sleeps.
The city of Guimarães celebrates its historical roots and the founding of Portugal during the annual Afonsina Fair.
It was a long night in Lisbon celebrating Saint Anthony. Crowds took to the streets for the traditional festivals and dances, enjoying sardines and basil plants. There was plenty of celebration, as shown in the photographs by DN reporter Paulo Spranger. Click the arrows to view the images: Photo gallery. The marches brought colour to the avenue and victory to Alfama. Alfama wins the Lisbon Popular Marches.
The night was a celebration throughout Lisbon, with street parties, plenty of music, basil plants, and grilled sardines. Avenida da Liberdade hosted the Lisbon marches parade, which crowned the Alfama march as the winner, eight years after its last victory in the competition. View the gallery of the best photographs by DN reporter Paulo Spranger by clicking the arrows. Sardines, basil plants, and street dances: this is how the night of Saint Anthony was celebrated in the streets of Lisbon. Alfama wins the Lisbon Popular Marches. Lisbon Festivals feature over 40 initiatives throughout the month of June.
The Alcântara March took second place and the Madragoa March completed the podium by reaching third place in the competition. The parade on Avenida da Liberdade brought together thousands of spectators and around 2,000 participants.
The parade on Avenida da Liberdade brought together thousands of spectators and around 2000 participants.
An hour of intensity, an hour of moshing, crowdsurfing, and flying cups, an hour of songs as dirty as they are danceable, backed by a frontman with a stage presence as large as his abdomen: Viagra Boys returned to Primavera Sound Porto to once again show the 'old guard' that punk and rock are in good health and thriving.
Avenue parades and street parties drew thousands to the streets to celebrate the Popular Saints until dawn.
Another concert by the British band Slowdive on Portuguese soil, their third at Primavera Sound Porto, and another show where, eyes open or closed, the dream commanded a piece of life - one hour at the Parque da Cidade do Porto, to be exact. How can a band that, in its first existence, lasted so briefly, now seem eternal?
On the second day of the sold-out festival, Gorillaz are not only the headliners but also the name most seen on the t-shirts of those who travelled to the Parque da Cidade. Young or old, Portuguese or foreign, there are those who really want to hear songs from the new album, those who have been fans since they were 3 years old, and those who want to shake off bad memories of the past with tonight's concert.
Two years after a memorable performance at the Kalorama festival in Lisbon, Massive Attack return to Portugal with a show where politics and art will once again go hand in hand, this time against surveillance capitalism: with well-defined targets, the songs will be classic after classic. They are the main highlight of the third day of Primavera Sound Porto, this Saturday.
Sixteen couples tied the knot this Friday, June 12, in the heart of the capital.
It is the longest day of the year in Lisbon, featuring the popular marches on Avenida da Liberdade. The capital's festivities also have the Saint Anthony's Weddings as a highlight.
The Bifanas do Mestre André restaurant presents its specialty, as well as innovations, such as a new version of the francesinha.
