Favela Discos, Frankão O Gringo Sou Eu, Telectu and Beautify Junkyards will be in Lamego starting this Wednesday, for a new edition of the ZigurFest festival.
Until Saturday, the festival returns to various spaces in the city of Lamego, offering a completely free program that includes concerts, performances, workshops, installations and conversations.
According to the organization, “the stages scattered around the city –Teatro Ribeiro Conceição, Casa do Artista, Horto do Castelo, Rua da Olaria and Alameda– are an invitation to discover artists and heritage”.
The festival celebrated its first decade of life last year, but due to the limitations imposed by the covid-19 pandemic, it will only be this year that it will show “all its vitality”.
“Returning to the usual intensity and the extended schedule, it will be the first time in two years that the public will be able to walk the streets of Lamego without limitations and fearlessly embracing everything that these four days offer”, he underlined.
For four days, the festival will showcase the work of As Docinhas, Beautify Junkyards, Bezbog, Cobrafuma, COW shift Z, Dead Club, Dianna Excel, Favela Discos, Frankão O Gringo Sou Eu, Fura Olhos, Herlander, Hidden Horse, João Não & Lil’ Noon, Kurtis Klaus Ensemble, Nile Valley, Redoma, Sarnadas, Telectu, Unsafe Space Garden and Zé Menos.
And “because ZigurFest is not just music, Roxana Ionesco and Alice Azevedo are the names of the performing arts program, and Piny and Rodrigo Constanzo will promote two dance and percussion workshops, respectively,” the organization said.
In this edition of the festival, the artists will also reach “new places”, namely Lazarim and Penude.
“If the group of Lamecans behind the ZigurFest is inspired by local traditions, such as the Pilgrimage of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, it is certain that today they also intend to keep the traditions alive and participate in them,” he justified.
Brazilian musician Frankão O Gringo Sou Eu will study the traditional wooden masks of Lazarim, while the Porto Favela Discos collective “will immerse themselves in the concertina tradition with musicians from the old (and now closed) Lamego concertina school, in Penude”. The result of these residences can be seen in two shows.
A free educational service program was also developed, aimed at all ages, in collaboration with the Lamego Museum.
Source: Observadora
