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World Classics Series at St Ives Arts Club
Concert 48: Fado – Music of Portugal
Claudia Aurora, fado vocal
Javier Moreno, Spanish guitar
Pedro Velasco, Portuguese guitar
St Ives Arts Club, Westcott’s Quay, St Ives TR26 2DY
Saturday 22nd March 2025, 7:00pm (Doors 6:30pm)
Tickets £24: from Will Sleath – 07946 515538 or [email protected]
Following on from concerts of North Indian, African and Colombian music in 2023 and 2024, the World Classics Series at St Ives Arts Club, which started in 2007, continues with a fado recital by Claudia Aurora, accompanied by Javier Moreno on Spanish guitar and Pedro Velasco on Portuguese guitar.
Porto-born Claudia Aurora has been based in Bristol and latterly in London since 2003, and has made two CDs: Silêncio and Mulher do Norte. She has sung in London at King’s Place and on the South Bank, at Bristol’s Lantern Hall and at WOMAD, and tours have taken her to Poland and South Korea.
Fado (Portuguese: fate) expresses loss, love and longing, and seeks to evoke a sense of saudade (~ yearning). There are two distinct genres – the Lisbon style and the Coimbra style – and the traditional accompaniment is Spanish guitar and Portuguese guitar. The latter instrument, which is iconically associated with fado, is a teardrop-shaped cittern, has six double courses of strings and uses the rare Preston tuners.
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