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

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.

Homem em Catarse + Bea Bandeirinha

In April, Café Duplo presents a very special duo. Homem em Catarse (Man in Catharsis) has been on the fruitful and special ‘Barcelos scene’ for a decade. Based in Braga, since 2013 he has travelled the roads and paths of this country to spread his emotive songs, which are clearly evident on his most recent album ‘natural catharsis’, an inner manifesto that also takes us to songs of intervention and which brings together a melting pot of folk, shoegaze, post-fado and even world music. Bea Bandeirinha is a multidisciplinary artivist, with studies in communication, sustainability and magic, and a project selected by Blue House’s MIC call in 2023. She challenges herself to excavate connections between the present and the complexities of the past and the need to dream. Singing, dancing, poetry, sound and plastic textures animate these issues and call for a revolution of the ground.

MOVE is the concept and music of bassist Felipe Zenícola (New Brazilian Funk, Chinese Cookie Poets), saxophonist Yedo Gibson (Eke, Naked Wolf, Fish Wool) and drummer João Valinho (Rodrigo Amado Refraction Quartet, Fashion Eternal, Anthropic Neglect).
The three musicians interconnect through an unwavering awareness of each other’s present creation, where proactivity and adaptability are sought after, where communication and respect are paramount – where anything is possible and the impossible is desired. With a legacy of intense collaborations between its members, MOVE was created in 2022, between Sintra and Lisbon, as a result of the desire to create an authorial proposal that would bring together their shared ideas and make a relevant contribution to the creative music scene. Characterised by a careful and incisive construction, MOVE’s music knows no stylistic boundaries, translating into a unique dynamic that explores the limits of musical communication. It’s an urgency for action. Where change isn’t just inevitable, it’s ardently desired. Born of will. From a sense of interconnectivity springs assertive, decisive and instantaneous improvisation. Implacable like the rainforest, fertile like the flood, flourishing ideas of doubt.

Photo credits: Vera Marmelo

Gi da Conceição | Voice
André Cardoso | Guitar and other chordophones

Thinking of a world undergoing enormous transformation, we want to express ourselves through poetry, sounds, experimenting, singing, smiling, on the ground of words that unites peoples.

Here, we will be actors of the word that travels in bodies, in time, in setbacks, in the full gesture of musical language.

€6

Fanou Torracinta (France) is one of the most relevant and exciting musicians of the new generation of Gypsy Jazz worldwide. The virtuoso guitarist from Corsica comes from a family of musicians. From an early age, he had the opportunity to play with the best in history, including Stochelo Rosenberg, Tchavolo Schmitt and Florin Niculescu.
As well as being an excellent performer, Fanou is an outstanding composer. Since 2020 he has recorded three albums: ‘Gypsy Guitar From Corsica Vol. 1’, ‘Gypsy Guitar From Corsica Vol. 2’ and his latest work ‘La Belle Vie’. In these he brings together the perfect combination of tradition and modernity within the musical universe of Django Reinhardt and American Jazz Swing.
After touring France, Italy, Spain and the United States, we’ll be able to see and hear this prodigy at the Django Portugal Festival.
“Fanou Torracinta’s music has a tremendous impact. This young man doesn’t hold back and plays with a breakneck speed that is rarely heard. Watch out for this virtuoso!‘
(Guitare Séche magazine)
’I’ve known Fanou for some time. He may seem sweet, but watch out! He’s really young but he plays the guitar extremely well. To be able to play like that at the age of 30 is bordering on rudeness for older people like me!!! The harmonic and rhythmic virtuosity that I hear in his albums is what I see him play in concerts with immense ease, flexibility and a magnificent touch and emotion. It’s not for nothing that in Corsica there’s beauty everywhere, the guitar everywhere, and now there’s Fanou!”
(Thomas Dutronc, musician)
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– special Christmas discount, until 25 December: 12€
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Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Johann Strauss in Portugal – 2025.

From 29 April to 5 May 2025, the Vienna Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra presents an unforgettable tribute to Johann Strauss, the ‘King of Waltz’, in seven Portuguese cities: Lisbon, Palmela, Sintra, Braga, Porto, Coimbra and Aveiro.

The programme includes Strauss’s most iconic works, such as Blue Danube, Radetzky March, Viennese Blood and Emperor’s Waltz, enriched by arias performed by an exceptionally talented soprano and baritone.

The Orchestra, recognised for the authenticity of the Viennese sound, brings the charm and tradition of Vienna’s waltzes and polkas to Portugal, in a unique celebration of Strauss’ legacy.

Don’t miss out on this extraordinary experience – book your place now!

Age Rating

M/6

Duration

75 minutes

Information

Box Office: 239 857 191

bilheteira@coimbraconvento.pt

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Vip Orchestra Seats – Rows AA and BB (with CD and programme offer)

70€

Orchestra Seats

€50

1st Plateau

€40

2nd Plateau €35 Balcony €35 ª Plateia

€35

Balcão

€30

– To purchase tickets for people with reduced mobility, please contact the Convento São Francisco box office (daily between 3pm and 8pm), telephone 239 857 191, or email 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.

Combo de Jazz EACMC

The Artistic School of the Coimbra Conservatory of Music (EACMC) regularly occupies the Café Curto stage to showcase the creative work of young students who combine jazz conventions with personal explorations. The small ensembles have varied in number and composition since 2023 in a rotation in which the constants are sharing and stage experience.

Tainá presents her second album of originals ‘Âmbar’ produced by Marcelo Camelo.
The Brazilian singer, who has lived in Portugal for a long time, brings her solo music to Coimbra for the first time in her own name.
Her special guests at the concert will be Grand Pulsar!
Before the concert, Tainá invites the audience to watch the documentary ‘Âmbar’ by Nuno Dias, which follows the recording of the album and her trip to Brazil in the middle of this process. In addition to the songs from the 2nd disc, we’ll be able to hear some songs from ‘Tainá’, her 1st album released in 2019, which includes the single ‘Sonhos’ (Dreams), which won her the Lusophone category at the 2nd edition of the Portuguese Music Play Awards 2020, or ‘Jasmim’ (Jasmine), the song with which Tainá went to the Song Festival in 2021, and the unmissable “Caminhante” (Walking) or ‘Menina do Rio’ (Girl from the River).

Thirteen years later, Jorge Cruz returned to his own albums with ‘Transumante’, a cycle of songs inspired by Portuguese rural imagery, traditional music and the encounter between language and landscape. This is a new chapter in an already long journey of proposals that have sought to rescue Portuguese roots music from the arms of contemporaneity. Live, the songs, recreated in viola and voice format, open up different perspectives to contemplate a work that is already three decades old and which, in this show, is revisited through new and old songs from solo albums, milestones from Diabo Na Cruz’s discography and fados written for other artists.

Festival Django Portugal 2025

Damjan Pejcinoski (Macedonia) is one of today’s most versatile and award-winning guitarists. He mixes his Gypsy Jazz roots with Jazz Fusion, Blues, Rock, Country and traditional Balkan music.
In 2009 he was a finalist in the ‘Guitar Idol’ World Competition. And in 2010 he won the international guitar competitions ‘Shred This Too’ and ‘Ziua Chitarelor’. Damjan has appeared as a soloist with the Presidential Orchestra of Belarus, was Head of the Guitar Department at the Faculty of Music in Skopje, and received the ‘Excellence in Performance’ award after touring China with his Gypsy Jazz band.
This musician’s level of excellence has led several world experts to include him in the list of the 200 greatest guitarists in rock history! Pejcinoski has collaborated with dozens of top musicians and was the first musician from South-Eastern Europe to be sponsored by PRS (Paul Reed Smith Guitar Company), alongside legends such as Carlos Santana, Al Di Meola and Dave Navarro.
After tours of Australia, China, the USA, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Kosovo and Macedonia, Damjan Pejcinoski finally arrives at the Django Portugal Festival to give us the music closest to his roots: Gypsy Jazz and Traditional Balkan Music.
“Damjan has an absolutely incredible technique. He plays with confidence and maturity. He’s definitely one of the emerging young stars of the guitar.” (Michael Batio)
“Damjan truly amazes us with his skill and natural technique on the guitar. I look forward to hearing him develop his musicianship.” (Andy Timmons)
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Zé Ibarra is giving a first-hand preview to the Portuguese public of his new album, which will be released at the beginning of June. In many ways, this is in fact Zé’s first solo album – after achieving success with two very different bands in Brazil (Dônica and Bala Desejo), the time has come for Zé to present his own identity through his solo work.

Marking a change from his previous project, which featured only voice and guitar, this new record presents Zé accompanied by a band, allowing him to explore and show new dimensions of his art. The album will include original compositions by Ibarra, as well as works by leading voices in Brazil’s contemporary music scene, including Sophia Chablau, Maria Beraldo and Itallo França. Long-time collaborator Dora Morelenbaum could not be left out, highlighting an ongoing creative partnership.

Artistic/Technical File

Voice, Guitar and Piano: Zé Ibarra

Age Rating M/6

Duration 75 minutes

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€10

€8 student | over 65s | groups of 10 people | unemployed | performing arts and music professionals

CSF Friend Card applicable (40% discount)

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