The music, traditionally performed in an intimate setting known as a "fado house," is guitar-based, and built around classical guitar and the notoriously difficult 12-string Portuguese guitar.

As the first woman to professionally take up the Portuguese guitar, Lisbon’s Marta Pereira da Costa can fairly be described as a musical pioneer who has opened up new territory for female musicians.

An evening of Portuguese fado with Alison DaSilva, Pedro Botas, Ricardo Parreira, and Nelson Aleixo comes to The Local in ...

A new program is offering Portuguese guitar lessons from renowned performer Ricardo Parreira. The project aims to preserve the fado tradition in the United States. Lessons will be held virtually and ...

UMass Lowell will host "The Sounds of Portugal," a fado concert, on Saturday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. The event features singers ...

The Portuguese genre Fado—which translates to “fate” or “destiny”—is analogous to (in American terms) a combination of folk-blues and cabaret song ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s nearing midnight in Alfama, Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhood, when a lady in black steps into a taverna. The bar staff scurry to turn ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fado, the folk music of Portugal, has been enjoying a revival recently; perhaps its trademarked saudade, or ...