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Marta Pereira da Costa Trio at Art Boutiki
Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on December 18, 2019
Where
Art Boutiki
44 Race Street
San Jose, CA
Map
408-971-8929
When
Sun, January 19, 2020
7:00 pm
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About
Marta Pereira da Costa is the worlds first and only female professional Portuguese Guitar player of fado music, the soulful sound of Portugal; recently acknowledged by UNESCO as part of the Worlds Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Marta started playing the piano at the age of 4, learned the classical guitar at the age of 8, and at 18 began to study the Portuguese Guitar under the tutelage of Carlos Gonçalves, one of the most influential modern Portuguese guitar players and accompanists of legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues.
She has collaborated and performed with some of the brightest stars of contemporary Portuguese music, including Camané, Carlos do Carmo, and Mariza. Marta was also a member of fado great Mário Pachecos group, and recorded on his album Clube de Fado - a música e a Guitarra, which Songlines Magazine named The Best of World Music in 2005. ...