Casa Fado ao Centro is a Cultural Centre – Fado House. Located in the city’s historic centre, it opens its doors every day of the year, without exception, to welcome anyone who wants to come and discover, remember and appreciate the genuine academic experience and traditions surrounding Coimbra’s Fado.
Every day, at 6pm, we hold our live show, a unique cultural experience and an opportunity to witness the magic of Coimbra’s Fado, performed by some of the city’s most renowned musicians. Book your place and visit us.

The Casa de Fados – Cultural Centre ‘àCapella’ presents a daily show/serenade of Fado, Song and Guitar from Coimbra.

New winter timetable, the show starts at 21:30.

Open every day

Come and visit our 14th century chapel and enjoy our terrace, bar service and free internet.

Opening hours: 7pm until 2am

The Army Symphonic Band, heir to the oldest musical traditions of the Portuguese Army, is made up of 80 musicians, including wind, string and percussion sections, as well as several chamber music groups. It regularly collaborates with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Orchestra and the Orquestra Clássica do Centro.

Free admission

Tickets available at the TAGV Ticket Office

from 6th January (limited to 4 tickets per person)

Ticket office / in-person service

Monday to Friday 14h00 – 17h00 / 17h30 – 20h00

on event days 1 hour before / up to half an hour after

closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays

‘Como Se Matam Primaveras’ is the name of the second album by Azorean Filipe Furtado. The new work consolidates the trio format with his comrades Filipe Fidalgo (saxophone) and Paulo Silva (drums). In the many stages since the release of ‘Prelúdio’ (Marca Pistola, 2022) and in the new writing and composition processes, they have gradually left the guitar in the background, so that the piano and keyboards can continue the universe that the single ‘Uma Coisa Linda Morrer’ promised. The songs on the new disc, which also features special guest appearances by Ana Maria Pardal and Luísa Levi, fearlessly embrace the growing and assertive space between the trio’s lyrics and instrumentals. The influences of jazz and traditional songs are intertwined with indie universes and more cinematic references. What matters is the journey and each of its harbours. The philosophical or poetic exercise of the album’s title, between the esoteric weight of the seasons, their colours, lights or semiotic nuances, are actually dressed up as autumns, both in the writing and in the melodic and harmonic choices of the tracks. They will also be unfulfilled ideals.

Filipe Furtado – keyboards, voice
Filipe Fidalgo – saxophone
Paulo Silva – drums
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Doors open: 9.30pm
Tickets: 7€

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Aldina Duarte creates a new poetic and thematic language for her fado, with a disc written by Capicua – ‘Metade-Metade. Romance is no longer the central theme, giving way to a wider world of affections, other loves: music, poetry, books, nature, the passing of the baton, emotional inheritance, community sharing, what makes us people. An intense eulogy to life, to the music of words, to silence where melody and rhythm build unique sonorities that only fado has, through the instruments and arrangements that serve the voice of the artist’s unique poetry and interpretation.

Artistic/Technical File
Voice: Aldina Duarte
Portuguese guitar: Bernardo Romão
Viola: Rogério Ferreira
Special guests
Harp: Ana Isabel Dias
Piano: Joana Sá
Front sound: Alfredo Almeida
Stage sound: Carlos Casaleiro
Lighting: Paulo Mendes
Road manager: Ana Moitinho
Booking and pre-production: Radar dos Sons

bbb hairdryer
present ‘A Single Mother, A Single Woman, An Only Child’Part 1
Cave Story
Hair in the wind, honest verses and nerves on edge. It’s in the force of truth and the exaltation of the real that bbb hairdryer present their new album: A Single Mother / A Single Woman / An Only Child. Ten songs that evoke ghosts, anguish and mockery along physical and spiritual lines in an abrasive queercore.
Two years after the release of their debut album KingdomHearts II Final Mix: pretty generic radio pop with a few fucks and edgelord lyrics and with a line-up consolidated by the presence of Chica on guitar, Francisco Couto (SAD / HIFA) on bass and Miguel Gomes (Chinaskee / GATOSOL) on drums, the band conjured up by Elisabete Guerra now brings to the stage the collective liberation that we are permanently in need of.
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Cave Story’s ‘Wide Wall, Tree Tall’, already well-received (it premiered live in May 2023), continues to provide material for a great concert.

On the 18th, musician Henrique Tibola ( @henrique_tibola ) takes to the stage at @liquidambar_coimbra singing soul classics, MPB and his own songs!
It will be a show packed with classics by Tim Maia, Cassiano, Donny Hathaway and new songs to keep the wheel turning.
Mark your diary, call your friends and come and enjoy an evening full of soul and good music!

The COD Coimbra Choir is a youth choir from the Diocese of Coimbra that was born in the context of World Youth Day in Lisbon, whose preparation work and journey in the Diocese of Coimbra was at its origin. It is a youth choir of around 75 voices, divided into four groups, accompanied by a group of instrumentalists, all from different parts of the diocese. In the year 2024/2025, the COD Coimbra Choir proposes to stage the HOPE & GO Concert, a concert that was conceived under the theme and message of the Jubilee of Hope, called by Pope Francis and which will take place in July 2025 in Rome. It will be an 80-minute concert, with 16 songs and great interaction with the audience.

Artistic/Technical File
Choral Director: Fr João Paulo Vaz
Musical Director: José Rebola
Technical Director: Diogo Craveiro

Age Rating
M/6

Running Time
80 minutes

Enquiries
Ticket office: 239 857 191
bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt

€10 ticket [single price]

– To purchase Reduced Mobility tickets, please contact the ticket office at Convento São Francisco (daily between 3pm and 8pm) by telephone on 239 857 191, or send an e-mail to: bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt

Rita Braga returns to Salão Brazil for a special concert to launch the cassette recently released by Cassetes Anicha, the new sub-label of Associação Experimentáculo.
This edition, recorded live at the Casa da Cultura in Setúbal in 2021, records one of the first concerts presenting her third album, Time Warp Blues (2020). The cassette also includes unreleased versions of themes such as the Bollywood classic ‘Chura Liya Hai Tumne Jo Dil Ko’ and ‘By a Waterfall’.
The show will feature songs from all her albums, including the most recent Illegal Planet (2023).
‘Rita excels at being unique in her method and that’s why she can only be divided by herself. The rhythms, the sounds, the voice, the fingers, the strings: everything is minimal but intense.’ – Rui Reininho
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Doors open: 21.30
Tickets:
6€ (shops and early bird at BOL until 14 January)
7€ (BOL after 14th January)
[Paid from 12 years old]
Age Rating: > 6 years

MYNDA GUEVARA
presents ‘Phoenix EP’
Hailing from the Cova da Moura neighbourhood in Lisbon, Mynda Guevara carries in her name and attitude a thirst for revolution that is closely linked to the still very minimised role of women in rap. Her rap, in Creole, as a true and emancipatory form of expression, has earned her a position of respect, thanks to a lyric that reflects her role as a woman, Afro-descendant and rapper within a stratified society.
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Showcases
by Clandestina
Athal + Bea + MoB + Molo + SanJ + Tulas
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Violeta
(djset)
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Tickets now available at salaobrazil.bol.pt (5€) and in partner shops Gang of Four and Lucky Lux

The Coimbra World Piano Meeting is an unprecedented and well-established national and international event organised by the prestigious ‘Aquiles Delle Vigne’ International Academy of Music (A2DV).
The 10th edition brings to Coimbra young pianists and teachers from the world’s leading institutions, from two dozen countries and three continents.
The Gala Concert, organised as in previous editions in partnership with the Municipality of Coimbra at the Convento São Francisco and with the Orquestra do Clássica do Centro, will feature several award-winning young pianists as piano soloists. It will be a celebration of the 10 years of existence of the event based in the city, and the culmination of a cycle of concerts/preparatory events that debuted in August 2024 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, also travelling to Madrid, Sardoal, Castanheira de Pera, Vila Nova de Gaia and Cantanhede.
A family-friendly concert for all audiences and ages, it will include the famous Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Programme
Works by Beethoven, Mozart and Saint-Saëns

Artistic/Technical File
Orquestra Clássica do Centro
Conductor: To be determined
Piano: To be determined

Gand’ra is not just a piece of land. It’s just as much its land as it is its people. It’s the music allied to all this and which accompanies the landscape strokes. It’s the cosiness of a group where you can rest at the end of the day. This collective is the combination of several things, but it’s the combination of challenge and friendship that unites them!
This project is a new universe of artistic and literary memory. It’s Gândara in musical and visual terms. A memory of the land and of what is ours. Of tradition. Of identity. The involvement of new and perhaps unlikely sounds. It’s the sea and dirty hands. It’s freedom. It’s Gand’ra.
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Doors open: 9.30pm
Tickets: 10€
[Paid from the age of 12]
Age rating: > 6 years

Sessions
31 January, 9.30pm
01 February, 9.30pm
02 February, 6pm (new date)

After the success of the concerts celebrating the 30th anniversary of the album ‘Viagens’ in Porto and Lisbon, Pedro Abrunhosa is now bringing the Viagens 3.0 show to other cities in the country. The concerts celebrating the release of Viagens will take place at the Convento São Francisco, and promise the grandeur that was experienced in the great halls of the metropolises.
From the mysterious face behind the double bass to thousands of stages as Portugal’s greatest showman: from rock to jazz, Viagens changed the history and paradigm of Portuguese music. Crowds and new generations still sing along to his unique hits, examples of which include: Não Posso +, Socorro, É Preciso Ter Calma, Lua and Tudo o Que Eu Te Dou.
Considered the best album of the 1990s by Blitz magazine, Viagens is still one of the best-selling albums of all time in Portugal. Marked by the emblematic partnership with Maceo Parker, James Brown’s eternal companion, and by the production of Quico Serrano and Mário Barreiros, Pedro Abrunhosa’s debut album catapulted him straight to the big names of the Portuguese music scene.
Viagens 3.0 marks the long-awaited return to the journey through the various continents of the music of an eternal traveller who once hit the road either hitchhiking or in an iconic second-hand Renault 4L. Pedro Abrunhosa, from shy bass player to songwriter extraordinaire, has played to packed houses and toured the world, now returning to the beginning of the principles of the deep and festive connection he has established with the public.

Artistic/Technical File
Artist: Pedro Abrunhosa
Keyboards: Claudio Souto
Bass: Miguel Barros
Drums: Pedro Martins
Piano: Eurico Amorim
Guitars: Bruno Macedo
Guitars: Paulo Praça
Saxophone: Paulo Gravato
Trombone: Daniel Dias
Trumpet: Rui Silva
Choirs: Patricia Antunes
Choirs: Patricia Silveira

Age Rating
M/6

Running Time
120 minutes

Enquiries
Ticket office: 239 857 191
bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt

Buy your ticket here

Orchestra seats
€45

1st Box
€40

2nd Box
€35

Balcony
€25

– To purchase Reduced Mobility tickets, please contact the Convento São Francisco box office (daily between 3pm and 8pm) by telephone on 239 857 191 or send an e-mail to: bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt.

Birds Are Indie, a trio from Coimbra made up of Ricardo Jerónimo, Joana Corker and Henrique Toscano, will be 15 years old in 2025. An impressive milestone for a band that began in February 2010 in a cold room in Coimbra, with an out-of-tune guitar and a small tambourine.
Over the course of a decade and a half, they’ve released six albums, several EPs and singles, performed hundreds of concerts in Portugal and Spain, learnt to play various instruments and even started to enjoy being on stage. But, as they confess, they never completely got rid of the ‘imposter syndrome’, a sensation that gave its name to the anniversary celebrations: ‘15 years of imposter syndrome’.
To mark the date, Birds Are Indie have prepared a special vinyl edition, with the Lux Records label, and a mini-tour that kicks off in Coimbra, at Salão Brazil, with two unmissable concerts and totally different line-ups.

The doors open at 21.30 and the concerts start at 22.00. Tickets cost €10 for one night and €15 for two nights. They will be available on the days of the concerts at Salão Brazil, from the door opening and at the usual points of sale.

– 7 February 2025 (with Bea Bandeirinha in the 1st half)
– 8 February 2025 (with Rapaz Improvisado in the 1st part)

Both nights feature special guests who will join the trio on stage to revisit their discography, making these performances truly unique.
Special guests at the Coimbra concerts:
Ana Trindade (Marta Bajouco Trio), Bea Bandeirinha, Filipe Fidalgo (Filipe Furtado Trio/help!), Francisco Frutuoso (Eigreen/Human Natures), João Fragoso (Duques do Precariado), Joel Madeira (Rapaz Improvisado/Ricardo Grácio Trio), Leonel Mendrix (Rapaz Improvisado/Fio-Manta) and Sofia Leonor (So Dead/From Atomic).
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Doors open: 9.30pm
Daily ticket: 10€
Two-day ticket: 15€ (exclusive sale in partner shops)
[Paid from the age of 12]
Age rating: > 6 years

CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF CARLOS PAREDES

‘I can’t talk about (Carlos) Paredes without sitting up straight in my chair’. We could start this text in many ways, but this simple sentence by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) says almost everything. Carlos Paredes is unreachable. His Portuguese guitar has become ingrained in national culture and his legacy transcends genres and borders. In the year that commemorates the centenary of his birth, the American Ben Chasny and the Portuguese Norberto Lobo are joining forces for a series of concerts in which they pay homage, in their own way, to the composer and guitarist from Coimbra. Far from wanting to interpret Paredes, they celebrate his influence and spirit, just as they celebrate John Fahey or Robbie Basho. Between Chasny’s six strings and Lobo’s six, they evoke the twelve strings of the master Paredes, on a tour that will take in gnration (Braga), Convento São Francisco (Coimbra), Auditório de Espinho (Espinho), Teatro das Figuras (Faro), Culturgest (Lisbon) and the Tremor festival (São Miguel, Azores), where the duo will meet for an artistic residency.
Ben Chasny is responsible for introducing an entire international generation to Carlos Paredes. He dedicated Lisbon to him, the song that closes School of the Flower (2005), and engineered the cross-border reissue of the albums Guitarra Portuguesa (1967) and Movimento Perpétuo (1971) by Drag City in 2011. From his various collaborations with his best-known groups, Comets on Fire and Rangda, it is under the mantle of Six Organs of Admittance that he has built up a long and prolific discography with more than thirty releases. A key figure in experimental music, his innovative work with the guitar brings together the strumming tradition of folk and American primitive guitar, defining new canons of the genre.

More than just a great admirer, Norberto Lobo has been described as having a bit of Paredes in him. His debut album, Mudar de Bina (2007) is dedicated to the eternal Portuguese guitarist, in an allusion to the song Mudar de Vida. Since his debut, Norberto has been tirelessly searching for new ways to explore the guitar. Whether solo, in collaboration with João Lobo or Bruno Pernadas or as a member of Montanhas Azuis and Fumo Ninja, he never stops experimenting and reinventing. And the result is clear to see: he is one of the most respected guitarists of his generation.

Artistic/Technical File
Guitars: Ben Chasny and Norberto Lobo
Co-production: Academia de Espinho, Convento São Francisco, Culturgest – Caixa Geral de Depósitos Foundation, Tremor Festival, Gnration and Teatro das Figuras

Age Rating
M/6

Running Time
60 minutes

Enquiries
Ticket office: 239 857 191
bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt

€12
€10 students / over 65s / groups (minimum 10 people) / unemployed / performing arts and music professionals
CSF Friend Card applicable (40% discount)

– To purchase Reduced Mobility tickets, please contact the Convento São Francisco box office (daily between 3pm and 8pm), telephone 239 857 191, or send an e-mail to: bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt

Rockin’ since 1986, Peste & Sida are one of the most emblematic bands in Portuguese rock. At the Convento São Francisco they will perform a varied set promoting their recent ‘live’ vinyl, which will include classics such as: Sol da Caparica, Bule Bule, Acordas pela Manhã, Chuta Cavalo, Gingão, Paulinha, Carraspana, among others.

Artistic/Technical Sheet
Vocals and bass: João San Payo
Guitar and vocals: João Alves
Drums and vocals: Sandro Oliveira
Guitar: Ricardo Barriga
Baritone Saxophone: Gonçalo Prazeres
Saxophone: João Cabrita
Sound Technician: João Pedro Pereira
Sound Technician: Nuno Mergulhão
Light Technician: João Tourais
Backline Technician: João Pinto
Backline Technician: Paulo Victorino
Road Manager: João Henriques
Merch Manager: Inês San Payo

Age Classification
M/6

Running Time
75 minutes

Enquiries
Ticket office: 239 857 191
bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt

Orchestra and 1st Box seats
€10
€8 students / over 65s / groups (minimum 10 people) / unemployed / performing arts and music professionals

2nd Box and Balcony
€8
€6 students / over 65s / groups (minimum 10 people) / unemployed / performing arts and music professionals
CSF Friend Card applicable (40% discount)

– To purchase Reduced Mobility tickets, please contact the Convento São Francisco box office (daily between 3pm and 8pm) by telephone on 239 857 191 or send an e-mail to bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt.