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.

Fado is Portugal’s traditional folk music, Alfredo Gago da Câmara is one of its finest players. A musician, poet, teacher, author and composer, he’s travelled the world entertaining. Tomorrow night, ...

Fado is a musical genre native to Portugal. It typically features mournful songs accompanied by classical and/or Portuguese guitar, sometimes with one or more instruments. It is similar in many ways ...

The music of a country is one of the keys to its culture; Argentina has the tango, Spain has flamenco, and Portugal has fado. It's a musical form that draws on many different historical and cultural ...

Fado em Si Bemol formed in 2003. It started out as a project between good friends Paulo Gonçalves, Miguel Silva and Pedro Matos to explore the nontraditional sounds of the music throughout the world ...

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

Ana Moura sits in a restaurant in downtown Lisbon explaining how she was always destined to be a fado singer, she just hadn't always realised it. "We have this saying in Portugal: you have to be born ...

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 ...

It was a chance of a lifetime for music afficionadoes in the city to hear Sonia Shirsat, the country’s best Fado artiste sing at the Alliance Francaise recently. Well, if Fado is a closed book to many ...