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Concertos na Esplanada · Entrada Livre
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Taking advantage of the hot summer evenings, which are approaching fast, the terrace of the Café becomes a stage for bands and projects of various genres. Wednesday is reserved for showcasing new talents from music schools in Porto and surrounding area, with projects related to classical music and jazz. On Thursdays and Fridays, the eclectic range of events brings us folk, pop and blues with names like Golden Slumbers, PZ or Budda Power Blues, in addition to honourable representatives of the most recent music coming from Brazil like Alice Caymmi and Júlia Vargas. On the most festive evening of the year, the terrace becomes part of the elation that takes over the city, with Rodrigo Affreixo and his set of Portuguese music that everyone can dance to, perfectly suited to the occasion.
Highlights
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1 Jul
- Saulo Duarte
- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
6 Jul- Escola de Música da Jobra
- Wednesday | 21:30 | Esplanada
7 Jul- Minta & The Book Trout
- Thursday | 22:00 | Esplanada
8 Jul- Benjamim
- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
13 Jul- RockSchool Porto
- Wednesday | 21:30 | Esplanada
14 Jul- Filho da Mãe
- Thursday | 22:00 | Esplanada
15 Jul- Os Sabugueiros
- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
21 Jul- Os Amantes
- Thursday | 22:00 | Esplanada
22 Jul- Lakha Khan
- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
28 Jul- Suricata
- Thursday | 22:00 | Esplanada
29 Jul- Emmy Curl
- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
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Concertos na Esplanada · Entrada Livre
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1 Jul 2022
- Saulo Duarte
- Baile Quente
- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
Saulo Duarte presents “Baile Quente”, a show that revisits songs from his five albums and where we can listen to the most diverse Brazilian rhythms, between his original songs and reinterpretations of some classics of Brazilian music.
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6 Jul 2022
- Escola de Música da Jobra
- Entrada Livre
- Wednesday | 21:30 | Esplanada
ART'J - JOBRA's Professional School of Performing Arts proposes for this evening combo performances by the finalist students of the Professional Jazz Instrumentalist Course.
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7 Jul 2022
- Minta & The Book Trout
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- Thursday | 22:00 | Esplanada
“Matador”, the first song to be written for Demolition Derby, Minta & The Brook Trout’s most recent album, concentrates many of the themes that run through the album: artificial landscapes, the relationship with the passage of time, self-illusions and disillusionment and, finally, an attempt to make peace with a certain inner turmoil.
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8 Jul 2022
- Benjamim
- Entrada Livre
- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
Vias de Extinção, Benjamim’s third album, was released at the end of 2020 and gained wide recognition among the public and critics, having been included in more than a dozen lists of the best albums of the year.
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13 Jul 2022
- RockSchool Porto
- Entrada Livre
- Wednesday | 21:30 | Esplanada
RockSchool Porto is a school dedicated to the teaching of modern music, with an emphasis on contemporary music performance. Born in 2009, today it is an innovative establishment, with professional courses in Music, Music Production and Performing Arts.
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14 Jul 2022
- Filho da Mãe
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- Thursday | 22:00 | Esplanada
The return of Filho da Mãe is an achievement. For himself, Rui Carvalho, and for all of us. Having gone through a pandemic transformed into a tunnel with no apparent way out, the musician saw the light flickering at its end mixed with various fictions, torments, doubts and uncertainties.
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15 Jul 2022
- Os Sabugueiros
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- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
Inspired by the forests of the Alto Alentejo, this quartet of traveling musicians met in Marvão, where they gathered to create and combine melodies influenced by different regions of the world. Os Sabugueiros present an interactive concert, full of energy, humor, stories and rhythms, creating a unique sound, solid as the mountainous landscape of the inland.
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21 Jul 2022
- Os Amantes
- Lucas Estrela & Strobo
- Thursday | 22:00 | Esplanada
Founded in 2016, at the invitation of the Se Rasgum Festival, Os Amantes have been making different and exciting readings of styles and facets of pop, always with love at the center of their lyrics. On stage, Jaloo (vocals), Leo Chermont (guitar) and Arthur Kunz (drums and programming) are vibrant ambassadors of the music that is made in the Amazonia today.
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22 Jul 2022
- Lakha Khan
- Entrada Livre
- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
Awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth most important artistic award, Lakha Khan is a living legend, an undisputed master of the sindhi sarangi (a national treasure), a guardian of the Indian songbook and a voice of unity and secularism. He has been an exponent of Rajasthani folklore since the beginning of his career, in the late 60’s.
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28 Jul 2022
- Suricata
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- Thursday | 22:00 | Esplanada
The project Suricata, which promotes a fusion between fado, jazz and blues, resulted from the musical complicity developed over the years between Pedro Gil (from Trásos-Montes) on the electric guitar, and Tércio Freire (from the Azores) on the baritone guitar.
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29 Jul 2022
- Emmy Curl
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- Friday | 22:00 | Esplanada
Emmy Curl, one of the most unique creative voices in music in Portugal, has traced a safe but surprising path over the last 15 years. To end one cycle and begin another, the singer-songwriter released, on April 9, a “best of” which she named 15 Years.
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