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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.
Minta e Mr. Gallini
The first Café Duplo of the year brings together Minta and Mr Gallini, two artists who nurture a fertile imagination, without leaving behind the charm, innocence and almost nostalgic creativity of times gone by. Minta is Francisca Cortesão, someone who has been imagining songs since she could sign her name. She is a member of Mão Verde and Mais Alto!, which make music for younger audiences, and writes for other artists such as Ana Bacalhau and Cristina Branco. She lost the 2017 edition of the Festival da Canção with ‘Anda Estragar-me os Planos’. In the absence of his band of heart, she’s also happy to present her romantic songs in their most skeletal format: voice and guitar.
Mr Gallini is one of the pseudonyms of Bruno Monteiro, also the drummer of the overwhelming rock’n’roll quartet Stone Dead. He can be described as several people in one, with a bubbling, restless imagination. What Mr Gallini proposes is a glimpse into his mind, through sounds and a spiral of musical references from various eras, where the clock stops and time is diluted.