While Marta Pereira da Costa was a protégé of Carlos Gonçalves, an accompanist of legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues, she didn’t see a clear path forward as a professional musician. Smitten with ...

Marta Pereira da Costa is truly one of a kind. The Lisbon native is the first and currently only professional female fado guitarist in the world, and she will be bringing her music to The Narrows ...

This pioneering book authored by Jose Fonseca of Brasilia, DF, covers the history of guitar amplifiers, from the beginning of the electronic age to present day developments in tube amplification for ...

FALLRIVER — Marta Pereira da Costa is truly one of a kind. The Lisbon native is the first and currently only professional female Fado guitarist in the world, and she will be bringing her music to The ...

FALL RIVER – A musical pioneer, Marta Pereira da Costa said she has found her voice in the Portuguese guitar. The first woman to professionally play the Portuguese guitar in fado, the Lisbon native ...

Carlos Paredes, 79, a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, died Friday at a retirement home in Lisbon after a prolonged bone illness and diabetes. Paredes was born in Coimbra and started playing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joao Diogo Leitao became interested in the Portuguese traditional guitar viola braguesa after a hitchhiking trip across Europe.

Carlos Paredes, a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, died Friday in Lisbon following a prolonged bone illness and diabetes, the Fundacao-Lar Nossa Senhora da Saude retirement home said. He was 79. By ...

Carlos Paredes is generally considered the greatest practitioner of the Portuguese guitar, a lute with six pairs of steel strings that’s the key instrument of the nation’s musical form, fado. Paredes, ...