Fado is the folk music of Lisbon's rustic neighborhoods. Since the mid-1800s, it's been the Lisbon blues - mournfully beautiful and haunting ballads about lost sailors, broken hearts, and ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and bohemia. With a new state-of-the-art exhibition celebrating fado’s ...

Fado is often called Portuguese blues, and there are definitely similarities between the two. Both are folk music that emerged from the lived experiences of working people and the downtrodden.

Seen from an American perspective, the renewal of Portuguese fado — a trend that has surged in the last 10 to 15 years — has brought a glamorous addition to world-music programming. Seductive stars ...

What is a fado show? Fado is the soul of Lisbon’s traditional neighbourhoods — an expressive folk music that has echoed through the city’s streets since the mid-1800s. Recognised by UNESCO ...

Fado is a Portuguese style of music that weds sumptuously plaintive melodies to poetic lyrics about love, loss, and the vicissitudes of fate.

If you go to Lisbon, you go listen to Portuguese fado, the city’s music about "fate." Follow the signs in the old neighborhoods, and you can’t miss the restaurants advertising live music with dinner.

Fado is the folk music of Lisbon’s rustic neighborhoods: so accessible to anyone willing to be out late and stroll the back streets.

Hidden Lisbon Fado music, saudade and more in Portugal's slow-to-reveal capital.

Madonna loved Lisbon's secret music spots so much she moved there for three years. Here's a guide to them.

From the outset, Portuguese superstar Mariza seemed fated to become a fado singer – albeit one who has reinvigorated and transformed the country’s traditional musical style with influences ...