FALL RIVER – A musical pioneer, Marta Pereira da Costa said she has found her voice in the Portuguese guitar. The first woman to professionally play the Portuguese guitar in fado, the Lisbon native ...

Marta Pereira da Costa is truly one of a kind. The Lisbon native is the first and currently only professional female fado guitarist in the world, and she will be bringing her music to The Narrows ...

In a Lowhill Township living room with a 26-foot-high chimney and a library of stringed instruments, three Portuguese men and an English-American are promoting their new project: a 56-year-old master ...

This pioneering book authored by Jose Fonseca of Brasilia, DF, covers the history of guitar amplifiers, from the beginning of the electronic age to present day developments in tube amplification for ...

Carlos Paredes, 79, a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, died Friday at a retirement home in Lisbon after a prolonged bone illness and diabetes. Paredes was born in Coimbra and started playing the ...

A free concert celebrating Portuguese heritage and the music of Carlos Paredes will be held at the Cambridge Public Library on June 1. The concert, titled “Celebrating Portugal in Massachusetts - Ao ...

While Marta Pereira da Costa was a protégé of Carlos Gonçalves, an accompanist of legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues, she didn’t see a clear path forward as a professional musician. Smitten with ...

Carlos Paredes was a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar. The Portuguese guitar is small, round and flat-backed, strung with six double courses (12 strings, paired in unisons); its ancestry can be ...

Carlos Paredes, a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, died Friday in Lisbon following a prolonged bone illness and diabetes, the Fundacao-Lar Nossa Senhora da Saude retirement home said. He was 79. By ...

On a business trip to India last week, I had the great fortune to catch several inspirational sets of Portuguese Fado music at the Cidade de Goa resort on the beach in North Goa. It was good to be ...