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.

Miguel Araújo is one of the most complete artists of the new generation. He is today considered one of the great names in Portuguese music, standing out as a composer, lyricist, singer and musician, being successful in each of these aspects that make up his multi-faceted and eclectic career. There are already many songs of his own, sung by himself and others that are part of the collection of the great Portuguese popular songs of this century. The Municipal Auditorium Augusto Cabrita receives the concert of Miguel Araújo, in which will be presented several themes of his three original albums, including the well-known hits of the public as "Os Maridos das Outras", "Dona Laura", "Recantiga" or "Balada Astral".

Camané and Mário Laginha are not strangers. They have given several concerts together. From the excellent understanding felt in these sporadic collaborations, the inevitable deepening of this symbiosis has now resulted: "Here it is quiet" is a new project thought from the ground up to give more shine to a voice and a piano that have been discovered accomplices since the first time they filled a stage.

Carlos do Carmo a marqué l’histoire du fado et de la musique portugaise. Seigneur d’une voix unique, c’est une référence pour plusieurs générations de chanteurs et une personnalité unique de la culture portugaise. "Les Chansons de Charles du Karma" est un spectacle où n’ont lieu que des chansons immortalisées dans la voix de Charles du Karma, et qui font aussi partie de la vie de chacun d’entre nous. Un spectacle émouvant, unique et irremplaçable, en hommage à l’artiste et à l’homme de Marco Rodrigues.

Malú Garcia is a violinist who, although associated with classical music, her new instrumental project incorporates styles such as Fado, Morna, World Music, Tango and Jazz. After her musical studies, as a fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, she returned to Portugal and, in parallel with classical music, decided to explore new colors, textures, styles and new violinistic techniques creating her own identity. This concert will feature guests and also the debut of new original themes that will be part of their next album. Malú presents himself in quintet, accompanied by renowned musicians, and promises a show of new and unlikely sonorities.

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.