Fade In - Associação de Ação Cultural, association responsible for the Fadeinfestival, Monitor and Entremuralhas festivals, once again widens the boundaries of cultural action and has scheduled 10 concerts in Leiria to put the most experimental sounds in the Church of Pena, in the Castle Amphitheatre and the Church of Saint Peter. The Cycle of Portuguese Exploratory Music has the support of the Municipality and is integrated in the programming of Fadeinfestival that in 2021 celebrates its 20th edition.

Diogo Piçarra's South Side Boy Tour debuts at the largest concert hall in the country, the Altice Arena. This will be the first time that the artist will give a concert in his own name in this room, and it will also be the first time that he will present the songs from the new album “South Side Boy” live. Diogo Piçarra arrives at Altice Arena after a break of more than a year from the country's great stages, having, during 2019, performed a very successful acoustic tour in the main national auditoriums, with more than 30 sold out concerts.

Running from 7 to 10 October, the festival dedicated to emerging urban subcultures features a predominantly Portuguese-speaking poster, with concerts by names such as Plutonium, Pongo, Ana Moura, Dino D'Santiago, Julinho KSD or Nenny, the young rapper who will have her first live concert in Portugal at this festival. Emir Kusturica and his No Smoking Orchestra are back on the 8th. The festival has an international poster that also includes Slum Village, The Alchemist or Ikram Bouloum. The Imminent, which has this year its sixth edition, presents eight site-specific works in Matinha, festival orders, by artists such as Obey, Escif, Nuno Viegas or Raquel Belli. After a pioneering experience last year, the Imminent Festival organizes an exhibition that expands the areas of the festival with the result of community workshops that take place since June in four neighborhoods of Lisbon. Fourteen works carried out in collaboration with the populations of Quinta do Lavrado, Alta de Lisboa, Bairro do Rego and Quinta do Loureiro, with creators coming from the area of architecture (Colectivo Warehouse, Eda+Gatomorto, Furo Atelier and El Warcha), of the visual arts (Confeere, Gil Ferrão, Herberto Smith, Mantraste) or the cinema (Luísa Homem+Inês Sapeta Dias, Miguel Faro and Pedro Pinho). The musician Tristany will present on October 10 a show in popular march format.

The Ensemble Sonido Extremo is a group of musicians committed to the dissemination of culture and art through music. The group defines its activity from the reflection on the multiple languages of the musical feat that coexist in our time. His concerns also focus on this plurality, and the combination of languages from different eras around concepts or ideas that unite the works, proposing an itinerary of listening. They made the absolute debut of more than 60 works, many of them thanks to the support of the CNDM and the Badajoz Philharmonic Society. His concert proposals have occurred mainly in cycles of dissemination and promotion of contemporary music, but also propose musical combinations, in which the current repertoire integrates with the repertoire of past times.

This is a classic trio of woods, is a project founded in 2019 by three musicians with the will to promote and expand the Chamber Music, considering this to be a privileged vehicle to take classical music to a diverse audience. This project is also a special complement to their careers as performers and teachers and is composed of Transverse Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon. All appreciation for their versatility, musicality and the uniqueness of their training, especially because they explore an eclectic repertoire meeting the unique timbrical potentialities of each instrument.

The concept is simple: welcome friends in the living room, for a night of music and relaxed conversation. That is what January intends with this spectacle, to transform the theatres into its living room. Friends, these, will be on stage and in the audience and the stories will surely be many. At the CAE, Salvador Sobral will sit on the couch with January and bring some of his themes and stories, to share with all who join them, on this special night.

Felipe Puperi is a Brazilian musician and producer based in São Paulo who is known for being part of the band Wannabe Jalva. With her, he played at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Meca, Planeta Atlântida and shared the stage with names ranging from Jack White to Pearl Jam. It was at the end of 2017 that Tagua Tagua came to life, a solo project by Felipe Puperi, which evokes more traditional sounds of Brazilian popular music and traditional samba, with pinches of current and universal sounds. He sings in Portuguese and explores various elements of Brazilian music and associates them with electronic music, soul, and rock.

The Phantom of Liberty. "Drafty Moon" is a combat, shadow dissipation, enlightenment and detoxification disc. Far from the dormant bucolism of "Tremble Like a Flower", Bloom’s discographic debut, this second breath brings a more assertive attitude, sometimes close to punk (but only spiritually), with whistles of energy sometimes overflowing, sometimes tense and restrained as an outburst. Although eclectic in the variety of styles it manages to conjure, the album is traversed by a constant tension between shadow and light, firmly anchored in the lyrics and voice of JP Simões and finely woven into the narrative architecture of the arrangements, Exemplary marriage between acoustic and electronic elements, and in the lead Miguel Nicolau exuberant. With its restlessness and its dramas ofdeception and disagreement, in the unhealthy galloping of the great human machine that corrodes freedom and nature with a commercial smile, "Drafty Moon" manages to be a full record of a subtle and salutary good humor: as if, on the verge of sinking into treacherous quicksand, our American hero could still say with an unbearable smile: "One day we will laugh at all this".

A mythical Portuguese rock band takes the stage and there will be no shortage of songs that everyone knows by heart. Formed in the summer of 1986, fleeing the mainstream by principle and conviction, Peste & Sida are now more than a band, assuming themselves almost as a lifestyle. Plague and AIDS is like group therapy.

After marking the end of the 80s and the following decade with a totally personalized sound proposal, which combines instrumental music, jazz and MPB, the seven friends who form the Band Zil present, on October 25, at the Tivoli BBVA Theater, their most successful themes. To make the moment unforgettable, the Brazilian group is joined by António Zambujo, in an intimate and very special participation. Zé Renato (who has already joined the Portuguese band Trinadus) and Cláudio Nucci, both former vocalists of Boca Livre, one of the most successful groups ever in Brazil, return to sing together in Banda Zil, with the company of Ricardo Silveira, Marcos Ariel, Zé Nogueira, Jurim Moreira and João Batist, some of the country’s greatest instrumentalists

Universal artist, Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) is one of the most important personalities in the history of 20th century music. His international career was one of the longest and most global of the entire 20th century. In the 21st century, its legacy remains alive, modern and timeless. The celebration of the Centenary of her Birth, in 2020 and 2021 will be a unique occasion for us to gain a clearer and more grounded awareness of the importance of Amália Rodrigues in the contemporary cultural scene. The year 2020 marked the centenary of its birth through a vast program. "AMÁLIA, WHO GAVE YOU THE FATE THAT YOURS ALREADY WAS" is one of the concerts in homage to Amália Rodrigues with Fabrizio Romano (piano, arrangements and musical direction), Luís Guerreiro (Portuguese guitar) and Daniel Pinto (bass guitar).