THE BAFO DE BACO BAR AND THE CASA DA CULTURA DE LOULÉ PROMOTE SECONDARY STAGES AND THE MED CLASSIC BRINGS THE MUSIC TO THE MOTHER CHURCH
Like in 2014, the organization of the Festival MED invites this year, The Bafo de Baco Bar and the Casa da Cultura of Loulé to promote two secondary stages - Bica and Arco, respectively –, presenting a musical program with national projects. On the other hand, the Mother Church is the stage for concerts of classical music within the MED Classic.
On the stage Bica, the musical proposals for a space that also includes a restaurant area, we can highlight the performance of the Texabilly Rockets, who takes on the stage on the last day of the Festival MED, 27thJune. It is one of the most important national projects in the rockabilly music and has its history closely linked to the history of this musical aspect in our country. The band is currently well known in the international panorama of this music style, having in the curriculum several performances at major festivals in Europe (Hemsby, Calella, Walldorf Rockin’ Rollin’ Festival, Eggbilly Festival) or tours in countries like Spain, France, Germany or England.
At the start of the Festival MED, on 25th June, the Keep Razors Sharp will perform on the stage of Bica, with a sound between psychedelic, shoegaze and post-rock, We Bless This Mess, the solo project of Nelson Graf Reis, which is a journey between the Folk and the Country music, and the Them Strange Sick Blues, with strident chords, where the blues is invited to reincarnate and to convert the classic rock, pop and other musical fields that time moved away from the original musical style.
On Friday, 26thJune, the proposals of the Bafo de Baco Bar are Vítor Bacalhau, the talented 24 years old singer and guitarist, who is a great promise of the blues / national rock, Jean Paul Rena, a Dutch enthusiast of blues music, and The Mirandas, a blues & rock'n'roll band from Faro.
On Saturday, in addition to the Texabilly Rockets, the stage will be “invaded” by the blues full of groove of Poli and The Chaing Gang and Boris Buggerov, a band that will present songs from the extensive Bob Dylan’s work and contemporary music of American and British origins.
At the start of the MED, the stage of Arco hosts the Cloudleaf, an alternative music band from Loulé, and one of the highlights of this stage is the singer-songwriter Luís Galrito. With a genuine aspect of troubadour, a healthy mix of folk origins of the Alentejo, from which is derived, and the most modern urban references, Luís Galrito already worked on several projects, not only with songs of his own, as well as other Portuguese singers as Zeca Afonso and Adriano Correia de Oliveira.
The rock of the An X tasy and the reggae of the Giggy project are the proposals for Friday, 26th June.
At the conclusion of this stage, programmed by the Casa da Cultura de Loulé, the proposals are the World Music’s sounds of the Al Khimia and the hip-hop of the Reflect.
MED Classic
Relatively to the MED Classic, a space dedicated to the classical music, the Mother Church hosts daily at 07:30 pm, the MED Ensemble (25th June), the Ensemble de Flautas de Loulé & Ensemble de Alaúdes de Évora (26th June) and the Symbiosis (27th June).
The Ensemble Med started in April, 2012, within the Department of Early Music of the Hogeschool voor of Kunsten Utrecht, Netherlands, under the artistic direction of Daniela Tomaz (flutes).
The Ensemble Med, from its beginnings, is looking for inspiration this delicate point of contact between the universes of the historically informed early music and the historically informed traditional music, looking for their own living and current interpretation of the music with European medieval origin, held around the Iberia and the surrounding regions of the Mediterranean Sea, in a multicultural and multidisciplinary approach between the Christian, Arabic and Sephardic legacy.
In this edition of the Festival MED the Ensemble de Flautas de Loulé, created in December, 1994, by students from the Loulé Music School, under the orientation of the Professor Francisco Rosado, presents a joint concert with the Ensemble de Alaúdes of the Regional Conservatory of Évora, founded in 2011, from the will of the Professor Helena Raposo and the students of the Alaúde class from this Conservatory, to play this type of music with their instruments and pieces of the age.
The joint between the accordionist Gonçalo Pescada and the acclaimed violinist Lilia Donkova results in the Symbiosis project, a mix of two very different musical instruments: the violin, with its deep-rooted connection in the classical music and the accordion, which comes from a tendentiously more traditional context. The musicians perform, in a unique way, some of the most famous pieces by A. Piazzolla, some standards by G. Gershwin, as well as two pieces by classical authors which were written for this type of training.
