chica e bá alvares @ Velho Cavalinho Taberna Medieval

24/06/2023 @ 6:00 pm

Velho Cavalinho - Taberna Medieval

R. Dr. José Alves Moreira, 8950-138 Castro Marim

Selected via the open call launched earlier this year, the collaborative project from singer-songwriter chica and bá alvares, double-bass player and key figure of some of the most fertile and diverse musical scenes in Lisbon, seeks to grapple, in Castro Marim, the problematics of “society’s undesirables”, an expression utilized by the Estado Novo to define punishment by exile over decades of repression in the not so distant past.

Following previous research work and interviews focused on this historical question, chica and bá alvares will develop new songs and lyrics based on the resources generated from this investigation - creating a dialogue with past and present lives, in a sharing of ‘despair’, which, as is often said, is “the essence of protest songs”. These new songs of sorrow will be presented live at Velho Cavalinho - Taberna Medieval, on the afternoon of the 24th of June (6PM), in a concert where admission is free to all.