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September 2009 |
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Agenda
Sat 12
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A Meeting of Friends/Encontro do Amigos
Music (al fresco) for listening, dancing or just relaxing. Come and join us to celebrate the opening session of the Amigos’ programme.
Free entry
Saturday 12th September, 20:00 |
Sun 13
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Opera Club: Fidelio (Beethoven). Video presentation by Helga Hampton.
Entry 4 € (Amigos 2 €)
Sunday 13th September, 18:00 |
Fri 18
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German Film Club: Ein Freund von mir ("A Friend of Mine") , directed by Sebastian Schipper, 2006 (Portuguese sub-titles)
We regret that this meeting of the Film Club has had to be cancelled. We will now be showing the film next month instead.
Karl and Hans couldn’t be more different. Karl is a young mathematician with a promising career at an insurance company, whereas the man-about-town Hans only takes up the odd job to get by. When they meet, Hans asks Karl whether he is happy. Karl doesn’t know what to reply until Hans shows him what makes him happy: girls, airplanes, the fastest backwards driving car in the world, and driving a Porsche at night in the nude along the Autobahn for example. For Hans “friendship” means to share everything, even Stelle, the queen of his heart. This is too much for Karl. But then, you can’t just get rid of a friend like Hans, and a woman like Stelle is unforgettable...
Friday 18th September, 20:00 |
Sat 19/
Sun 20 |
Salsa Workshop
 This will be the first International Salsa Workshop in the Algarve.
This workshop is open to beginners and advanced "salseiros" (dancers to you and me) as well as instrumentalists who want to learn salsa piano or percussion.
Reservations will be required by 17th September, which should be made in person, at the office of the Amigos, or by calling the Amigos office on 966 329 073.
Saturday 19th/Sunday 20th September |
Sun 20
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Jazz Club: Salsa band Amerika Libre
 Sunday 20th of September sees the opening of the new season of Jazz-Club@The-Museum.
The first event of the season will, as usual, be an outdoor concert and will feature the fabulous music of Salsa band AMERKA LIBRE and Cuban food from the kitchen of Amigos do Museu. As an additional feature we are combining this event with the first international “SALSA WORKSHOP” in the Algarve (see above). This will be held in the museum during Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th, in advance of the Salsa concert.
The group is comprised of:
- Abdel E. - trumpet and voice (Cuba)
- Daniel A. - drums, cymbals and voice (Cuba)
- Luis G. - trombone and voice (Cuba)
- Darwin I. - bass and voice (Equador)
- Tony Ar. - congas e percussion (Brasil)
- Rafael H. - percussionand voice (Venezuela)
- Anibal del Corral - piano,guitar, lead vocal and conductor.
 Entry 10 € (Amigos 8 €) - concert only. Reservations recommended. For further information on price options please see above item regarding the Salsa Workshop.
Download the combined Workshop/Jazz Club poster by clicking here (PDF 2.0 Mb)
Sunday 20th September, 17:00 |
Fri 25th
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Concert - Duo Dionísio
Duo Dionísio plays music that is mostly Sephardic (from the time of the Moors in Iberia), or Sephardic based, or music that sounds to us as if it would fit in nicely with the programme. They are:
 Jane Page (flute, bowed psaltery), a painter who loves to play music. She took up the flute when she was living in America and, at her first lesson here with a Portuguese flautist – Vasco Gouveia, at the Conservatório de Música in Faro – he said she had the wrong embouchure, wrong breathing, wrong stance and had obviously been trained in America. He then allowed her to do little more than play B and Bflat for the next few months until he had totally eradicated the American ‘accent’. (He later went to teach in Boston; one could almost pity the Bostonians.)
 Francisco Brazão (voice, flute, drum) has been playing music virtually all his life, starting in church as soon as he was big enough to reach the keyboard. He began his flute training at the Conservatório de Música in Faro with Vasco Gouveia, has a degree in music education, teaches music and singing and is currently training with Ana Ester Neves as an opera singer. He is choirmaster of the Lagoa choir and has performed as a singer with several groups and orchestras.
Jane and Francisco met sixteen years ago when Vasco Gouveia (as above) introduced them to each other because he thought their playing styles would blend well. He told them to go and play together, and, since he never told them to stop . . .
Friday 25th September |
Sun 27th
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Fado Night with guest fadistas, plusVítor do Carmo and José Santana on guitars
Entry: 4 € (Amigos 3 €)
Sunday 27th September, 21:00 |
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Newsletter for September 2009