Fadista Ana Margarida Prado acts this month in France and Spain

A fadista will present at both festivals his debut album, “Laço” (2024), in which he recorded traditional fados and compositions of Agir, Bernardo Couto, João Filipe, Luísa Sobral, Marco Oliveira, Mário Laginha, Pedro de Castro and Vitorino Salome, and in which he sings poems of João Monk, among other authors.

“In the concert in France, being inserted in a traditional music festival, I will include popular songbook themes,” Ana Margarida Prado told Lusa. “I will include in the alignment a special moment with themes of our very rich popular songbook, with references to Zeca Afonso and Amália, she also a folklore lover,” she added.

At the International Folklore Festival in Mâcon, in the region of Burgundy, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Folklore Group The Lusitanians, the creator of “Fado Domingueiro” (João Monge/Frederico de Brito) will be accompanied by musicians Daniel Freire, on Portuguese guitar, Bernardo Saldanha, in viola, Francisco Gaspar, on acoustic bass, and Ricardo Dias, who takes the musical direction, in accordion.

In Spain, on 31st, Ana Margarida Prado acts at the Festival La Constellación de la Cultura – which celebrates the 75th anniversary of Vicálvaro district – in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, at the Cultural Centre el Madroño.

This is a festival that is presented as “multicultural” and counts on the poster, among others, with Las Artes, dance company, with Carolina Palencia and Juan José Robles, who rescue the Sephardic musical tradition, with the Brazilians Hermanos Guedes and the ‘cantaor’ of flamenco António Reyes.

In Madroño, Ana Margarida Prado, the creator of “Star of Life” (João Monge/Pedro de Castro), is accompanied by musicians Sebastião Pereira, on Portuguese guitar, Bernardo Saldanha, in viola, and Ricardo Dias, in accordion.

Ana Margarida Prado began her career by being selected in 2008 for a Fado Gala at the Theatre Sá da Bandeira, in Porto, and that night, received the Revelation Award. A seven-month season followed in Palma de Mallorca, on the Spanish islands of the Balearic Islands.

He returned to the fadista circuit of Porto, followed by that of Lisbon, having acted in A Severa, at Adega Machado and, in 2013, was invited by fadista Maria da Fé to be part of the cast of his restaurant Lord Vinho, where he remained for four years.

Throughout her career of about 20 years, the creator of “Fado do Encontro” (J. Monk/Fado Dois Tons, Alberto Costa) has worked in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Luxembourg and Romania.

In 2018, at the invitation of musician João Gil, participated in the Festival Caixa Alfama, in Lisbon, in the project “+351 Fado: The Fairies of John Gil and John Monk”.

In 2024, by the Fado Museum, he edited his debut album in his own name, “Lasso”.