Portugalidade – A cultural treasury of traditional song, dance and poetry
Folkways Recordings is the non-profit label of the US Smithsonian Institution. Over the past century, it has collated into one archive a vast variety of sounds collected from global sources.
Live as you dream?
I think we can safely say that Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has now given way to Trump Arousal Syndrome, as the psychotic spotlight moves from the “lefties losing it”, to
Anxious, my ar…mpit!
In conversation with a dear Portuguese friend recently, I was triggered, or more accurately re-triggered, by mention of a YouTube video that you too may have had a reaction to
Portugalidade – Contemporary female artists
Wikipedia merits the inclusion of only 22 Portuguese women painters in its listing. A reading of their biographies indicates the social divisions which frustrated so many of their endeavours. Those
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A high-vis Portuguese artist
Portugal’s best-known living artist, Joana Vasconcelos, is recognised for her large-scale installations that challenge traditional conceptions of the female. Vasconcelos’ extensive exhibitions and commissions span the globe. In 2012, Vasconcelos
To my American fellows…
This is altogether one of the most challenging columns I have committed to here, which I want you to know is offered with sincerity and hope. Sincerity because I have
Portugalidade – Some suggestions for winter listening
With longer evenings and firesides beckoning, what better way to spend a few relaxing hours than listening, by candlelight, to Portuguese music; perhaps with a glass of wine and a
Flexpats, Slowmads, and … Nowmads
Today’s musings are brought to you, in part, by two men – one, some might say, a modern day master of the material, and hero to bon-viveurs; the other a
Tourists
Most of you who are reading this column right now in The Resident, the leading English-language newspaper in the Algarve, are, in fact, residents. (Hence the name, actually.) As such
11 – 11 – 11 – 2024
Those of us who are old enough to have participated in the immense tragedy of the second World War may have the will and corporal strength to give our undivided