Picadeiro Jazz | Festas dá em casa

In the first half of June, Largo do Picadeiro will host seven outdoor jazz concerts as part of an initiative by Teatro São Luiz, organised by João Lopes Pereira. Over seven days, there will be different styles and some of the most exciting artists on the national and international scene.

André Fernandes “Uniteto” (PT)
1 June
guitar, electronics, vocals

Solo, but accompanied by several objects that produce sounds, André Fernandes presents himself in this challenging format with some things prepared and others created at the moment.

Bill McHenry / Michael Formanek / Jeff Williams (USA)
5 June
tenor saxophone/double bass/drums

A meeting of musicians from the same environment who know and respect each other but who have never converged on the same stage.

Borage (UK)
6 June
Megan Jowett – viola / James Banner – double bass

This duo’s music is fractured, strange, dark, challenging and vibrant. They released their first album, Transitory, on WISMart Records in 2023.

Garfo (PT)
7 June
Bernardo Tinoco – tenor saxophone / João Almeida – trumpet / João Fragoso – double bass / João Sousa – drums

A project was created in 2019 by Bernardo Tinoco to join three other young people with a musical approach identical to his. In 2021, GARFO was named New Group of the Year at the RTP / Festa do Jazz Awards. In 2024, the group is presenting its second album.

Joana Guerra & Yaw Tembe (PT)
13 June
cello, vocals/trumpet, electronics

Two reference figures in the universe of experimental and improvised music finally come together in a duet after their paths crossed in other contexts of artistic projects.

Bode Wilson (PT)
14 June
João Pedro Brandão – saxophones, flute, electronics / Demian Cabaud – double bass / Marcos Cavaleiro – drums, percussion

Aether is the name of the most recent album that Bode Wilson signed with Carimbo Porta-Jazz (2022). The trio now embarks on a sonic journey through the mountains of experimentalism and total improvisation.

Sofia Borges & Camila Nebbia (PT/ARG)
15 June
drums, percussion/tenor saxophone

A music that experiments and investigates the relationships between time and space, dealing with factors such as memory and identity and expanding established languages, to look for other possibilities and configurations.

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