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In the second half of 2024, we will continue the Café Curto cycle of showcases, which began in October 2020 and has already had more than 150 sessions. On a weekly basis, on Tuesday evenings, the public will be able to enjoy a variety of musical proposals on the stage of the Café Concerto of the Convento São Francisco. Between 3 September and 17 December, there will be 15 performances featuring artists with expressions ranging from the intimacy of folk song, to the experimentalism of electronica, the energy of pop, the boldness of jazz and the unique jazz and the singularity of world music.
Aníbal Zola + Luís Travassos
Aníbal Zola is a singer-songwriter and bassist from Porto who uses the Portuguese language as an accomplice in his songwriting process. He released his fourth full-length, ‘Pop dell’Fado’, in 2024, with Portuguese urban popular song as his main source of inspiration. The artist has played on stages all over the country, appearing at festivals such as EDP Cool Jazz, Vodafone Paredes de Coura, Festival Rádio Faneca, Festival Tom de Festa and Festival JazzMatazz, among others. In this Café Duplo he is joined by Luís Travassos, a musician who lives and creates in harmony with the smells, sounds and textures of the fields of the lower Mondego. Ever since he was a child, he has explored a way of transmitting sensations with his voice through Portuguese song. In 2005, he began playing the viola as a self-taught musician and, in 2011, he created his solo project, ‘Cachimbamba’. He took part in the television programme ‘Ídolos’, where he finished in fourth place. He continues to develop projects that stay overnight in various venues across the country, with the aim of elevating fado and Portuguese music in acoustic formats.
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