The shows will take place over two days in Porto and three days in Lisbon, with the guest Mónica Salmaso and a combination of compositions that have not been performed for a long time and other more recent ones.
The musician Chico Buarque begins this Friday, in Porto, a series of concerts to present the show “Que tal um samba” in Portugal, which also includes dates in Lisbon and “promotes a tour of the work of decades” of the also writer.
Chico Buarque takes the stage at Pavilhão Rosa Mota, in Porto, this Friday and Saturday, and on June 1, 2 and 3 at Campo Pequeno, in Lisbon.
The singer-songwriter returns to Portugal to present “How about a samba?”a show that, according to the promoter of the shows, “promotes a tour of the decades-long work of Chico Buarquethat brings together compositions that have not been performed for a long time and other more recent ones”.
The shows will feature the Brazilian singer Monica Salmaso Guest.
At 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, there were still some tickets available for the Porto concerts. The capacity in Lisbon is exhausted in the three days.
The musician has performed several times in Portugal, the last of which in June 2018in a series of six concerts, presenting “Caravanas”, their 23rd studio album, released in 2017.
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, 78, with a musical career of more than five decades, also stands out in the world of letters as a writer of novels, short stories, poetry, theater and children’s books, with titles such as “Roda Viva”. , “Drop d’Água” and “Opera do Malandro”, “Little Yellow Hood”, “Benjamim” and “The German Brother”.
Chico Buarque was recently in Portugal to receive the Camões Awardwith which he was distinguished in 2019.
Camões Prize awarded to Chico Buarque on Monday after four years of waiting
For the jury of the Camões Award, the highest literary distinction in the Portuguese language, the choice of Chico Buarque was due to his “contribution to the cultural formation of different generations”and the “multifaceted character” of his work, from poetry to theater and the novel, consolidating himself as a “fundamental reference for the culture of the contemporary world.”
At the delivery ceremony of Camões, on April 24 in Sintra, Chico Buarque dedicated a distinction to “so many humiliated and offended authors” in “years of stupidity and obscurantism”, saying that “the fascist threat persists in Brazil and a little throughout the part”.
Source: Observadora
