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

RePercussion Trio

Metatempo is a musical creation that reflects on time – existential, cultural and musical – in dialogue with the climate crisis. With four premieres for percussion trio, the RePercussion Trio proposes a concert that questions how the acceleration of human daily life relates to the limited time left to act in the face of climate change.

4 new percussion trio works by Hugo Vasco Reis, João Pedro Oliveira, Luis Antunes Pena and Maurizio Azzan.

Free entry

Some musicians are born with melody in their veins. Pedro Sáfara is one of them. Self-taught, composer and storyteller in song form, he brings to the Liquidâmbar stage a universe where every note is a sigh and every word a confession.

Why go?
Talent without Labels: Discover the power of music that can’t be learnt in schools, but is born from intuition and the soul.
Lyrics that Touch the Invisible: Compositions that speak of love, loss and hope with a rare honesty.
Authenticity in a Pure State: A sound that mixes folk, blues and Portuguese roots, without fear of being vulnerable.

“Because real music isn’t played – it’s felt. And Pedro Sáfara is living proof of that.”

Café Curto, at the table with music.
The Café Curto cycle is returning in 2025 with the usual proposal: every week a thirty-minute showcase is served, with a strong focus on young artists and emerging projects. Since 2020, more than 170 sessions have taken place, putting Coimbra on the map of the national music circuit. In addition to the express showcases, music is enjoyed in double doses in the last week of each month with Café Duplo, an artistic dialogue between different languages and geographies, resulting in a unique concert.

Iúri Oliveira & Daniela Antunes

In May, Café Duplo brings together two percussionists for whom rhythm marks the compass of life. Iúri Oliveira is a multi-percussionist, composer, researcher, sound designer and music producer trained at The Rhythm Studio (London School of Popular Music) and Drumdrumdrum in Holland. An active performer on a wide variety of instruments, rhythmic traditions and percussion styles, he currently works with The Cinematic Orchestra, Criatura, Manuel Ferreira, Eduardo Cardinho, Lura, Nancy Vieira, Helder Moutinho, Pongo, Branko, among others. Daniela Antunes has a background in percussion and lyrical singing and uses art as a way of connecting to life, through touch, voice, drawing and feeling. Her performances are based on the exploration of sound objects, in a musical transformation of the things that live with us. The artist from Ore also marks Café Duplo’s most recent connection to this area.

Fernando Mota

Concerto para uma Árvore marks the beginning of a cycle of creations in which objects of various kinds have been developed, such as the film 7 Poemas para um Mundo Novo (7 Poems for a New World), the multidisciplinary show Passagem Secreta (Secret Passage) and the CD-book Instrumentária Poética (Poetic Instrumentation), which gave its name to this creative phase.

This cycle is characterised by the development of experimental musical instruments and sound objects from trees, branches, rocks and other natural elements, and by musical, visual and thematic research based on these materials. In Concerto para uma Árvore Fernando Mota uses some of these musical instruments to create a ritualistic and exploratory show that has been performed in a wide variety of venues.

In addition to the birdCAGE and the Ramira, a large part of the Concerto is centred on the instrument created from an oak tree, collected during a land clearance in the Serra de Montemuro at the beginning of 2020, on which strings were stretched between the branches and bells were hung in place of leaves.

Fernando Mota is a composer, sound artist and performer. In his artistic career he has developed a multidisciplinary language, bringing together music, theatre, visual arts and poetry.

Ícaro Nery – voice, guitar and soul that turn samba into a celebration for everyone. This Saturday, Liquidâmbar vibrates to the rhythm of a roda de samba where even those who arrive alone leave in community.

Why go?
Double talent: Ícaro masters the art of singing and playing with a naturalness that only the great masters possess.
Samba that unites: From timeless classics to original compositions, each song is an invitation to tap your feet or let your voice go.
Collective energy: There’s no audience here – just accomplices to the same beat.

‘In samba, as in life, what matters is the heart that lets itself be carried away by the rhythm.’

Mohammad Syfkhan presents the album ‘I Am Kurdish’

Originally from Syrian Kurdistan, Mohammad Syfkhan is a singer and player of the bouzouki, a stringed instrument from the lute family. His compositions use elements of Middle Eastern and North African music to create an atmosphere of joy, love and happiness. Syfkhan started playing music in 1980, when he was at university studying nursing. When he graduated, he moved to the city of Raqqa in Syria, where he began working as a professional singer and created his own band, The Al-Rabie Band, which played at concerts, parties, weddings and festivals all over the country.

Mohammad continued to play with his band and work as a surgical nurse until the outbreak of war in 2011, which tragically claimed the life of one of his sons, forcing the family to leave their home and seek refuge in Europe. Three of Mohammad’s children were housed in Germany, while Mohammad, his youngest daughter and his wife were taken in by Ireland. Since then, Mohammad has been spreading the message of the consequences of the fundamentalists’ actions and how their message is far removed from the teachings of love and understanding that he considers to be the true message of Islam.

The songs on ‘I am Kurdish’ were recorded and mixed with the aim of both being heard at a small gathering and played on large club sound systems. Either way, it’s a disc that will make people dance.

10pm (doors open half an hour earlier)

6€ pre-sale, 10€ on the day

Café Curto, at the table with music.
The Café Curto cycle is returning in 2025 with the usual proposal: every week a thirty-minute showcase is served, with a strong focus on young artists and emerging projects. Since 2020, more than 170 sessions have taken place, putting Coimbra on the map of the national music circuit. In addition to the express showcases, music is enjoyed in double doses in the last week of each month with Café Duplo, an artistic dialogue between different languages and geographies, resulting in a unique concert.

bonança

bonança is the alter-ego created by Ricardo Barroso in 2018, when the artist from Massamá began to materialise the musical ideas that came into his head. After the EP ‘Mui Nobres Intenções’ (Very Noble Intentions), released in 2020, Bonança began his tour of the country’s stages. The song “Oceanário” was selected in 2021 for the collection Novos Talentos FNAC, which was the artist’s launch pad into the Portuguese emerging music scene.

Nanan and Triska: the union of tradition and contemporaneity in a guitar and viola concert.

The artists from Paraná, Nanan and Triska, are returning to Portugal and Spain after a successful tour in 2023, presenting a concert that recaptures the tradition of the old caipira duos and at the same time brings a contemporary and renewed approach.

With a line-up that favours the sound of the guitar and viola, Nanan and Triska offer a show of great beauty and sensitivity, which wins over the audience through the technical quality of the vocal and instrumental arrangements and the thematic depth.

The repertoire includes authorial compositions and arrangements of classics from the Brazilian and Latin American songbook, always with a fresh and attentive look at the issues of our time.

Nanan and Triska are musicians of great prestige on the cultural scene in Paraná and Brazil, with several albums released, participations in festivals and relevant successful projects and international tours of Portugal, Spain, the United States, India, Argentina, Finland, among others.

“CASA NA FLORESTA” (House in the Forest) is the biggest public and audience highlight of the artist Nanan, who also recently released “O DESTINO DO CLÔ (The Destiny of the Clan) in partnership with Gustavito and Luizga, as well as the international wolrd music work produced with the Kosmik Band.

Triska is recognised as a researcher of Brazilian regional music, producing award-winning albums such as “NOS BRAÇOS DO PINHEIRAIS” and “IGUASSUL”, and the standout song “JOÃO TRISKA E PAULINHO MOSKA – A LINHA ALÉM”, in partnership with poet Guilherme Gontijo Flores.

Now, together, they are presenting a show that enchants audiences of all ages and origins on our planet. The meeting with Nanan and Triska is a celebration of music, nature and popular culture, with each musical performance carrying a message of awareness, hope and peace.

Artist sheet:

Triska – Viola Caipira, Guitar and Vocals

Nanan – Guitar and Vocals

After an acclaimed debut album (JACC Records, 2022) and countless concerts from the north to the south of the country, the Sul trio continues its journey through the world of jazz and Portuguese instrumental music.

Based on the unique musical and personal complicity that unites them, Bernardo Couto (Portuguese guitar), Luís Figueiredo (piano) and Bernardo Moreira (double bass) present, first hand, Sul Vol. 2, a testimony to the trio’s unique language and artistic maturity cemented over years of collaboration on various fronts. The album includes new arrangements of repertoire by Pedro Caldeira Cabral, Bernardo Sassetti and Carlos Paredes, among others, as well as original compositions by the three members of the trio.

Sul Vol. 2 is a celebration of instrumental music made in Portugal, while at the same time reflecting the unique creativity of three outstanding musicians from the Portuguese scene.

Photo: Margot Rident

Tickets

Café Curto, at the table with music.
The Café Curto cycle is returning in 2025 with the usual proposal: every week a thirty-minute showcase is served, with a strong focus on young artists and emerging projects. Since 2020, more than 170 sessions have taken place, putting Coimbra on the map of the national music circuit. In addition to the express showcases, music is enjoyed in double doses in the last week of each month with Café Duplo, an artistic dialogue between different languages and geographies, resulting in a unique concert.

MIC

The MIC: Música Independente de Coimbra is a call for proposals aimed at discovering new talent in the Centre Region, as well as supporting the creation and promotion of emerging artists. In June, the second project selected in 2025 will take to the stage of Café Concerto Coimbra.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a song is worth a thousand pictures. Inspired by the power of music as a sensory and emotional experience, composer and ethnomusicologist Hélder Bruno presents Ether Sculptures, an immersive concert where each composition is a sculpture carved out of the ether – invisible, but audible and sensitive. In this performance, Hélder Bruno explores concepts of narrative identity, musicality and musicking, transporting us to a universe where music becomes invisible matter, moulding emotions and soundscapes. The show is in the tradition of programme music, guiding the audience through evocative titles that suggest unique images and sound stories. The concert will feature the special participation of Surma, Angela Bismarck, Iuri Oliveira and João Silva (a Jigsaw), bringing together different musical languages in a unique experience.

Sara Correia is embarking on this new tour with the rightful status of a phenomenon: she has travelled the world to great acclaim, released two albums that have been acclaimed by the public, praised by critics and awarded by the industry, been nominated for a Grammy Latino, gathered around her some of the best lyricists and composers of our time and affirmed fado as her home.

Sara Correia says that Liberdade, her third album, is the “most fado”. The fado singer’s melodic language, with its strong Portuguese flavour, was later joined by melodies with different arrangements and more eclectic, free sounds, without stereotypes.

On stage, together with her band – Diogo Clemente on fado guitar and artistic direction, Ângelo Freire on Portuguese guitar, Frederico Gato on acoustic bass and Joel Silva on drums – Sara Correia presents a uniform and cohesive show, but tinged with many different colours and textures that result from subtle experiences and influences from other genres. All of this fits into Sara Correia’s fado, all of it resonates in her soul that lives fully in this Liberdade.

Artistic/Technical File

Voice: Sara Correia

Fado guitar and artistic direction: Diogo Clemente

Portuguese guitar: Ângelo Freire

Acoustic bass: Frederico Gato

Drums: Joel Silva

Age Rating: M/6

Duration: 80 minutes

Information

Box Office: 239 857 191

bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt

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Orchestra Seats and 1st Box

€20

€18 students / over 65s / groups (minimum 10 people) / unemployed / performing arts and music professionals

2nd Box and Balcony

€18

€16 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.

Café Curto, at the table with music.
The Café Curto cycle is returning in 2025 with the usual proposal: every week a thirty-minute showcase is served, with a strong focus on young artists and emerging projects. Since 2020, more than 170 sessions have taken place, putting Coimbra on the map of the national music circuit. In addition to the express showcases, music is enjoyed in double doses in the last week of each month with Café Duplo, an artistic dialogue between different languages and geographies, resulting in a unique concert.

Nuno Carpinteiro & Miguel Calhaz

In June, Café Duplo brings together two accomplished instrumentalists. Nuno Carpinteiro is a multi-instrumentalist, known for his close relationship with the accordion, which has accompanied him from an early age. As well as participating in other projects and collaborating with other artists, the musician from Mirandela has released two solo albums, ‘A Montanha’ (2019) and ‘Viagem’ (2022), in which the simplicity, silence and, at the same time, complex harmony he finds on country walks are reflected in his original compositions. Miguel Calhaz is a singer-songwriter and bassist who maintains musical projects in the areas of jazz, world music and Portuguese music. In 2023, he released the album ‘Contra: Contemporânea Tradição’, by JACC Records/Terra Series, and, in 2024, ‘Contra Cantos Vol. 1’, in which he proposes a reinterpretation of songs that marked April and the opposition to the dictatorship.