Music festival news in Portugal

Win tickets to NOS Alive

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Ronan Keating and Natalie Imbruglia to headline Douro & Porto Wine Festival

The Douro & Porto Wine Festival is set to return to northern Portugal next month, bringing together internationally renowned musicians, award-winning wines and top Portuguese chefs in the heart of The post Ronan Keating and Natalie Imbruglia to headline Douro & Porto Wine Festival appeared first on Portugal Resident.

Massive Attack to close Primavera Sound

Massive Attack and Idles marked the final day of Primavera Sound. More than 120,000 people attended the festival in the city of Porto.

MIMO Festival debuts film showcase in Guimarães featuring documentaries on Brazilian music icons

The MIMO Festival is launching a film showcase in Guimarães, marking the city's first time hosting the event in Portugal. From June 27 to July 2, Largo Condessa do Juncal will host ten free screenings of films from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Canada, and the UK, focusing on music and cultural expression. The initiative precedes the festival's main concerts, scheduled for July 3-5, as part of the 10th-anniversary celebrations of MIMO in Portugal. Highlights include four national premieres dedicated to Brazilian artists, such as documentaries on Dona Onete, Fernanda Abreu, Jards Macalé, and Alaíde Costa, the latter of whom will also perform at the festival.

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At Primavera Sound, Massive Attack laid bare a sick world

And Sudan Archives and Amaarae threw a party on top of it. The festival returns from 10 to 13 July 2027. According to the organisers, more than 120,000 people attended this edition.

Massive Attack: music and manifesto at Primavera

The British band gave us songs, but also Gaza, Elon Musk, algorithms, and wars, and the main stage turned into a mirror of the 21st century. Not everyone liked what they saw reflected.

Primavera Sound Porto: Mike D, a Beastie Boys legend, brought his children and threw a late-afternoon hip-hop party

He is a legend of American hip-hop and one-third of the New York group Beastie Boys. Since the end of the band that best blended rap with rock and hardcore, he has stayed out of the spotlight – “it didn’t feel like that long,” he told BLITZ before the concert. Until now: with his first solo album on the horizon, the 60-year-old artist brought a lively gang of young musicians (including two of his children) to the Porto festival to spread the message (and play Beastie Boys tracks).

More than 120,000 people at Primavera Sound Porto: festival returns in 2027

Figures revealed to BLITZ by the organisers of Primavera Sound Porto point to “more than 120,000 spectators” at this year's edition of the festival, which reaches its third day this Saturday with concerts by Massive Attack and IDLES, among others. Dates for 2027 have been announced.

Gorillaz at Primavera Sound Porto: the backstage family photo and concert videos

Mike Smith, keyboardist and musical director for Gorillaz, shared a photo of the group's lineup that took the stage this Friday at Primavera Sound Porto, taken backstage at the Parque da Cidade venue. Bassist Seye Adelekan showed footage of the concert as seen from the stage. Watch them here and relive (or find out how it went) the show through videos captured by the fans who sold out the second day of the festival.

What the Massive Attack concert this Saturday at Primavera Sound Porto will be like: for democracy, for humanity, for music

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.

On the night Gorillaz brought both celebration and mourning, Viagra Boys also shone

Primavera Sound Porto was packed to witness the return of Damon Albarn's band after four years. The Swedish Viagra Boys and old friends Slowdive also performed at a high level.

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