Fado, which means destiny or fate, has a feeling the Portuguese call “saudade,” a melancholy emotion that roughly means a nostalgic longing, a certain ineffable yearning.

Katia Guerreiro celebrates 25 years at the summit of Portuguese Fado with a concert to benefit the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies at UMass Lowell. A singer with deep roots in Portugal’s Azores ...

Former President Barack Obama has been listening to fado this summer. He recently revealed his list of top summer picks, which includes Portuguese fado singer Carminho and superstars like Billie ...

On Friday, April 5, see Marta Pereira da Costa, the first woman to professionally play the Portuguese guitar in Fado. She will be performing at 8 p.m. with Duarte, a special guest Fado singer from ...

Carminho, the Portuguese fado singer who was featured in the film ‘Poor Things,’ said her recent limited U.S. tour was nothing short of amazing.

Fado, steeped in Portuguese identity, history and culture, traces its roots to 1820s Lisbon and is a synthesis of Afro-Brazilian music and dance handed down over generations.

Portuguese fado singer Carminho cherishes a revolutionary Chicago recording session Folk musician came to town to make an EP with Steve Albini, hoping the producer would bring out her “punk side.” ...

An American at the forefront of the fado, a type of melancholy Portuguese folk music, Ramana Vieira says her show Friday at Journey Downtown in Vacaville will be an example of “fado fusion ...

A documentary that doesn't bother to explain anything; a concert film with interpretive dance; MTV for world-music fans: Director Carlos Saura's "Fados" is all those things, but above all it's a ...

The Portuguese folk music called fado is enjoying a surge in popularity, thanks to international stars like Mariza. But in the narrow alleys of Lisbon's Alfama district, locals like their fado ...

Some scholars hear in fados “the sweet crying” of African slave songs or Gregorian chants. By the 18th century, Portuguese sailors were singing the sad songs to prostitutes, who sang them to ...

If the movie gods are fair, they will allow “Fados” the same kind of success found by “Buena Vista Social Club” and other such musical celebrations. This film is a sultry tribute to an old ...