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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

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CARLOS DO CARMO With Special Guest

CELESTE RODRIGUES Featuring

José Manuel Neto Portuguese Guitar Carlos Manuel Proença Classical Guitar Daniel Pinto Acoustic Bass Part of Fado Festival NY & Newark Portuguese singer Carlos do Carmo stands at the center of much of fado’s history over the last 50 years, a singular voice that has resonated with generations of listeners throughout the world and which will be heard in his Town Hall debut in New York City on April 7, 2018. Carlos do Carmo will be joined by special guest Celeste Rodrigues, a singer who, at 95 years of age, is regarded within Portugal as one of fado’s most vital and vibrant links to its distant past.

The extraordinary career of Carlos do Carmo has included dozens of albumlength recordings and thousands of performances for audiences worldwide, drawing on a deep and highly influential repertory of fados that speak of love, loss and the eternal enigma of Portuguese saudade. His accomplishments have been recognized through multiple national and international awards, including a Latin GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014, citing him as “one of the most iconic voices of Portuguese music.”

Carlos do Carmo’s professional career began at age 23 when he performed at his family’s storied fado house, O Faia, located in the Lisbon neighborhood of Bairro Alto. In the ensuing 50-plus years, his recorded and live output has been prodigious. Even the 10-CD collection 100 Canções (2010) can only be viewed as a sampling of “the best of the best.”

His landmark 1977 recording, Um Homem na Cidade, is a deeply affecting musical portrait of post-revolutionary Lisbon, with all of its glorious beauty, contradictions and mystery intact. The 1974 revolution had overthrown the regime linked to Europe’s longest-ruling dictator, António Salazar, and precipitated Portugal’s first steps towards modernization. As Carlos do Carmo remembers, “When the revolution came, the difference was total: you could breathe. There were no restrictions.” Widespread censorship and control in society had yielded to a more dynamic tension between the country’s ingrained conservatism and its emerging liberties of expression. Um Homem na Cidade captured this moment through haunting, ethereal works such as “Rosa da Noite,” “Fado do Campo Grande”, and the record’s title track.

The legendary singer’s many live recordings, most notably those commemorating the 25th and 35th years of his career, render not merely the high points--such as the songs “Canoas do Tejo,” “Loucura,” and “Lisboa Menina e Moça”--but also the template for the sound of contemporary fado. As Carlos do Carmo describes it, fado is “a mysterious and genuine song. To sing and to listen to fado you have to have heart and soul.” The music of fado -- strophic and flexible, resolutely traditional yet demanding innovation -- works best when the artists have lived within it, seen life through it, and explored how a single piece of music can filter the complete spectrum of human experience. Just as Carlos do Carmo has done.

The concert is also a singular opportunity to hear Celeste Rodrigues, who last performed in New York at Carnegie Hall in 2012 and is perhaps best known internationally as the sister of fado’s greatest diva, Amália Rodrigues.

Paradoxically, she passes the nine-decade mark with no regard whatsoever for her age and with a seemingly infallible memory stretching unbroken from her childhood to today. She has lived in so many countries, and seen so many things, that perhaps it is no surprise that she flew to New York to spend this past New Year’s Eve as a guest of Madonna. Or that she speaks perfect English.

Or that she prefers performing to recording. Or that she lives life on her own terms, with no worries for the future and certainly no apologies.

Celeste Rodrigues’ exalted stature within the Portuguese fado community is the result of over 70 years of devotion to the music. It has been a career lived overwhelmingly through live performance. Indeed, while her discography includes nearly 60 releases, many are singles and EPs, and -- with the exception of Fado Celeste (2007) -- almost all are exceedingly difficult to find. Despite her reluctance to record, many of the songs that are most closely associated with her sit firmly in fado’s canon, including “Lenda das algas”, “Marcha de Alfama” and “Saudade, vai-te embora.” She continues to sing in some of the most illustrious fado houses in Lisbon. Indeed, to appreciate her stature in the fado community, it’s enough to watch as, night after night, a startling variety of fado singers and musicians seek her encouragement, guidance and affection.

The challenge of assembling a show together from careers that stretch back more than 50 years is one that both singers readily accept. Invoking the vision of fado at its origins, as an intimate conversation between performer and audience, do Carmo says it simply: “Every concert is a gift we share with each other.” For the concert at Town Hall, a venue famed for the warmth and proximity of its sound, do Carmo promises, as always, his best -- along with a few surprises. As he says, “Nothing is taken for granted.”

The Fado Festival NY + Newark (fadofestival.net) is a celebration of the iconic Portuguese musical tradition that has ancient roots, but is ever moving forward. The festival delights from the traditional to contemporary, always in surprising ways. The Fado Festival is produced by Isabel Soffer/LiveSounds.org and is supported in part by the Consulates General of Portugal in New York and Newark, TAP Air Portugal, Museum of Fado, Camões Institute and the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Cover Photo: Carlos do Carmo © Feligenio Medeiros

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