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Festival outside Paris brings fado to former Portuguese slums – DNOTICIAS.PT

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Festival outside Paris brings fado to former Portuguese slums - DNOTICIAS.PT

The Fado Carminho singer sings today in Champigny, the arrival point of the Portuguese in France in the 60s, where many lived in the slums until they got a better life, at the invitation of the Val-de-Marne department, on the outskirts of Paris. …

“Carminho will sing Champigny, and this is symbolic. Champigny is a region with many Portuguese and where in the 60s and 70s, when the Portuguese arrived in France, there were the largest slums, ”said José Tavares, programmer at Festi’Val de Marne. , in statements to the agency Lusa.

The slums of Champigny were among the largest on the outskirts of Paris and welcomed immigrants of different nationalities, being the arrival point for thousands of Portuguese who chose France to work in the 1960s, an experience recorded by photographer Gerald Bloncourt.

These slums were home to 15,000 people and were gradually dismantled. Champigny still has a strong Portuguese presence through associations, sports teams and businesses such as supermarkets and restaurants, owned by Portuguese descendants.

The Fado singer is not the only Portuguese speaker on the program of this music festival, which runs throughout October, and on October 22, Angolan Pongo arrives in Gentilly, another city with a large Portuguese-speaking community in the Paris region. …

“It turned out to be the best time to attract these artists because Pongo has new opportunities in his career and for a while we wanted to attract Carminho. Festi’Val de Marne fulfills this very function, which is to attract not only French artists, but artists from all over the world, ”explained José Tavares.

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This festival has already brought together other Portuguese-speaking singers such as Bonga or Mayra Andrade in this department, which has a population of nearly 1.4 million and has very different origins.

“Our program at the festival is a reflection of our department. Val de Marne is a place where there are many people of different nationalities, and this is what we want to show, ”said Jose Tavares.

This Portuguese is also a part of this diversity: he came to Paris in the 60s at the age of seven and built his career in the music business, starting with organizing concerts of rock bands, then managing a concert hall and for two decades. he worked on the schedule of the Festi’Val de Marne festival.

Carminho sings today at the Théâtre Gérard Philippe in Champigny, and Pongo is scheduled to have a concert in the Party Hall of the Gentila Town Hall, which is also home to many Portuguese speakers.

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Portuguese historical films will premiere on 29 December.

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Portuguese historical films will premiere on 29 December.

Method Media Bermuda will present the documentary FABRIC: Portuguese History in Bermuda on Thursday, December 29 at the Underwater Research Institute of Bermuda.

A spokesperson said: “Method Media is proud to bring Bermuda Fabric: Portugal History to Bermuda for its 5th and 6th showing at the Bermuda Underwater Observatory. In November and December 2019, Cloth: A Portuguese Story in Bermuda had four sold-out screenings. Now that Bermuda has reopened after the pandemic, it’s time to bring the film back for at least two screenings.

“There are tickets Ptix.bm For $ 20 – sessions at 15:30 and 18:00. Both screenings will be followed by a short Q&A session.

Director and producer Milton Raboso says, “FABRIC is a definitive account of the Portuguese community in Bermuda and its 151 years of history, but it also places Bermuda, Acors and Portugal in the world history and the events that have fueled those 151 years.

“It took more than 10 years to implement FABRIC. The film was supported by the Minister of Culture, the Government of the Azores and private donors.

Bermuda Media Method [MMB] Created in 2011 by producer Milton Raposo. MMB has created content for a wide range of clients: Bermuda’s new hospital renovation, reinsurance, travel campaigns, international sports and more. MMB pays special attention to artistic, cultural and historical content.

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CRISTANO RONALDO CAN MAKE UP A GIANT IN CARIOCA AND PORTUGUESE TECHNICIAN SAYS ‘There will be room’

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Maestro de Braga is the first Portuguese in the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba.

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Maestro de Braga is the first Portuguese in the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba.

Maestro Filipe Cunha, Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Braga, has been invited to conduct the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, as announced today.

According to a statement sent by O MINHO, “he will be the first Portuguese conductor to conduct this orchestra in its entire history.”

In addition to this orchestra, the maestro will also work with the Lyceo Mozarteum de la Habana Symphony Orchestra.

The concerts will take place on 4 and 12 March 2023 at the National Theater of Cuba in Havana.

In the words of the maestro, quoted in the statement, “these will be very beautiful concerts with difficult but very complex pieces” and therefore he feels “very motivated”.

From the very beginning, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 will be performed by an Italian pianist (Luigi Borzillo), whom the maestro wants to bring to Portugal later this year. In the same concert, Mendelshon’s First Symphony will be performed.

Then, at the second concert, in the company of the Mexican clarinetist Angel Zedillo, he will perform the Louis Sfora Concerto No. 2. In this concert, the maestro also conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.

“This is an international recognition of my work. An invitation that I accept with humility and great responsibility. I was surprised to learn that I would be the first Portuguese member of the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. This is a very great honor,” the maestro said in a statement.

“I take with me the name of the city of Braga and Portugal with all the responsibility that goes with it, and I hope to do a good job there, leaving a good image and putting on great concerts. These will be very special concerts because, in addition to performing pieces that I love, especially Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, I will be directing two wonderful soloists who are also my friends. It will be very beautiful,” concludes Filipe Cunha.

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