15 May 2012
The Portuguese band BWO – “Brass Wires Orchestra” – is the winner of the Hard Rock International 2012 contest taking place in London, UK. The panel of international judges awarded Hey Monea! (USA) second place and FOS (Indonesia) third place. Based in Lisbon, the BWO started playing for money in the street, in September 2011, and […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Entertainment, Featured, Music, People, Portugal, Spotlight
14 May 2012
The Boston Portuguese Festival (BPF), in partnership with the Consulate General of Portugal in Boston and the School of the Arts at Emerson College, is hosting, May 16, two cultural events which include “Fado Vadio”, a photograph exhibit by Luís Pavão, followed by the exhibit of the film feature “Fados” (2007) by Carlos Saura. The events, […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Education, Entertainment, Featured, Film, Heritage, Music, People, Portugal
13 May 2012
Portuguese Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, 33, is launching her new video and single “The Spirit Indestructible” featuring the hit song “Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)” considered to be different from everything else she has produced in the last 12 years. The album is being released six years since the singer launched her multi-platinium Loose. The video […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Music, People, São Miguel, World
12 May 2012
The National Library of Portugal (Biblioteca National de Portugal – BNP), based in Lisbon, in partnership with the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), also based in Lisbon, is sponsoring the 2012 short term Research Fellowship Program aimed at American scholars interested in conducting research at the National Library archives. The National Library Research Fellowships, for at […]
Posted in Education, Featured, Organizations, Portugal, Scholarships
11 May 2012
Portuguese jazz pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti, 41, died Thursday in an apparent accident while hiking in Guincho, near Lisbon. He was allegedly shooting pictures when he took the fatal fall. Sassetti, considered to be one of the most talented jazz musicians of his generation, was born in Lisbon where he learned to play the […]
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11 May 2012
By Kathi Stafford ♦ Phil Jourdan is a musician, translator, and fiction writer originally from Portugal. He now lives in the UK, where he is completing work on a doctorate at Warwick University. His new book, Praise of Motherhood, is a heartbreaking look at the loss of his mother Sophia to an unexpected brain aneurysm. The […]
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