Raquel Dutra's (re)cantos, a talk-and-song concert of Azorean traditional music
Old island songs in new arrangements, with short spoken notes between pieces, rewarding if you follow Portuguese.
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The fourth edition of Utopia Açores fills six days in Ponta Delgada, on São Miguel, with writers, readers, students and people from the book trade. The programme mixes conversations and book presentations with sessions for children and teenagers, school visits, artistic moments and literary dinners under the title "A Literatura é para Comer". Rita Redshoes performs her show "O Bem, Bem Feito". Confirmed authors are Hugo Van Der Ding, João Tordo, José Eduardo Agualusa, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Pedro Mexia, Ricardo Araújo Pereira and Rita Redshoes. Entry is free. For a visitor who reads Portuguese, or follows Portuguese-language writing, this is the island's main literary week; for everyone else the Rita Redshoes show is the easier way in.
In Ponta Delgada on São Miguel. The listing does not name the venues, so check the festival programme; central Ponta Delgada is walkable from the harbour.
Old island songs in new arrangements, with short spoken notes between pieces, rewarding if you follow Portuguese.
A week of island documentaries on São Miguel, for anyone curious how people on small Atlantic islands make a life there.
Free, specialist and mostly in Portuguese; the 18:00 choir set is the easiest part to drop in on.
Bring friends and pick a song: the microphone is open to anyone who wants a turn.