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13 May 2026

Fado in Lisbon: Where to Hear Portugal's Soul Music

Fado means fate. The word captures something essential about the music: it does not celebrate or perform happiness. It holds loss, longing, and the particular Portuguese concept of saudade - a nostalgia for something you may never have had - in a vocal and instrumental form that is unlike anything else in European musical tradition.

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