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Amor Sentimental Música - A Salon for Fado & Modinha

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Date: Friday, 27 September 2021
Start Time: 8pm
Cost: $25  ($20 Concession)
Venue: Northcote Town Hall, Main Hall
Venue Address: 189 High Street, Northcote 3070
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Join Alma Mater for a magical evening - an evening where romance, solitude, passion, loss, tenderness, entwine around one another and bring to life the whisperings from deep within the soul. Alma Mater will reawaken the voices of worlds gone by, bringing to life the traditions of Portuguese fado and Brazilian modinha. The music is fiery, gripping, tense, yet surprisingly delicate. Songs of love and fate will take the audience on a soulful journey back in time, to a world where delicate beauty and unrefined passion walk hand-in-hand down the snaking corridors of antique cities. The antiquity of fado and modinha will be re-imagined through a first time collaboration with songstress Madeleine Paige.  Paige’s own songs of heartbreak, love and loss will be re-interpreted with Alma Mater resulting in a modern take on these beautiful musical traditions.With their rare combination of instruments, diverse influences and musical cultures, Alma Mater creates a faithful yet effervescent sound. Don’t miss this unique special event proudly produced by Darebin Music Feast.
Some Fado in France…it’s so undiscovered in Australia that there isn’t any youtube of Alma Mater or anyone else doing it here! Be amongst the first to be awoken to the beauty of Fado and Modinha!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzPrN_AyglQ

The Queen of Fado –Amália Rodrigues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqB8RAPC9QM

A Beautiful Anthology of Portuguese Fado
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHBk5g_Ei38

And Madeleine Paige with her cover of Jolene
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_quWI_Rhtsk

Salons
A Salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation.

Fado
In popular belief, fado is a form of music characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor, and infused with a characteristic sentiment of resignation, fatefulness and melancholia (loosely captured by the word saudade, or “longing”). Fado can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar Rui Vieira Nery states that “the only reliable information on the history of Fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best”. However, although the origins are difficult to trace, today fado is regarded, by many, as simply a form of song which can be about anything, but must follow a certain structure. The music is usually linked to the Portuguese word saudade which symbolizes the feeling of loss (a permanent, irreparable loss and its consequent lifelong damage). Famous singers of fado include Amália Rodrigues, Carlos do Carmo, Mariza, Mafalda Arnauth, Ana Moura and Cristina Branco.

Modinha
Affectionately (grammatically called ‘diminutive’) form of the Portuguese noun “moda” which means (in today’s common usage) ‘fashion’. The modinha, in Brazil, is a type of sentimental love song. And it is generally considered as one of the roots of the Brazilian popular music, another one being the ‘lundu‘, because they were the first representative music of the people of Brazil, at the time of getting their identity as Brazilians, not the dwellers of Portuguese colony. Roughly speaking, the modinha, as well as the lundu, had parallel diffusion in both Portugal and Brazil. The origin of the modinha was in Europe, the lundu Africa. The modinha is of uncertain origin, but it may have evolved in either Brazil or Portugal. Around the end of 18th Century, Domingos Caldas Barbosa wrote a series of modinha’s that were extremely popular, especially in salons, and so can be termed salon music. The modinha of the late 19th century was sung in the streets or as an outdoor serenade, usually accompanied by flute, guitar, and cavaquinho.

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Age Restrictions: All Ages – alcohol served to 18+
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