Cat Power, Al Di Meola and José González lead a 35-show Misty Fest this November
The festival's 17th edition opens at the Coliseu dos Recreios on 1 November and closes at Casa da Música on the 29th: 22 nights in Lisbon, 11 in Porto, one in Loulé and one in Coimbra. Al Di Meola alone plays six times.
Misty Fest takes the whole month again. The 17th edition of promoter Uguru’s autumn festival has 35 shows booked between 1 and 29 November, according to the official programme on the festival’s site, and the split by city tells you what kind of festival it is: 22 in Lisbon, 11 in Porto, one in Loulé and one in Coimbra. No fields, no wristbands. These are seated rooms, from the Coliseu to Casa da Música.
Who opens, who closes
José González, the Swedish songwriter of quiet voice and nylon strings, opens at the Coliseu dos Recreios on 1 November and the Coliseu Porto Ageas on the 2nd. Closing night on the 29th is split: Al Di Meola at Casa da Música, and a triple bill of Laura Misch, Anne Paceo and Mammal Hands at the CCB.
The biggest name sits in the middle. Cat Power plays Campo Pequeno on 13 November to mark 20 years of The Greatest, the 2006 record plenty of people still know by heart.
Al Di Meola, six times
Nobody plays more. The American guitarist starts at the Convento São Francisco in Coimbra on 24 November, plays Casa da Música on the 26th and 29th, and takes the CCB three times, on the 27th and in two sessions on the 28th. Miss him in one city and there’s room to catch him in another.
The Portuguese names
Rodrigo Leão revisits Alma Mater at Casa da Música on the 23rd and 24th. Surma plays the São Luiz on the 19th, Paus the Capitólio on the 21st, Nancy Vieira teams up with pianist Francisco Sassetti at the CCB on the 27th, and Maria João and João Farinha do an afternoon show at the same CCB on the 28th.
Beyond Lisbon and Porto
Loulé gets Raül Refree and Maria Mazzotta at the Cineteatro Louletano on 14 November, and Coimbra gets its Al Di Meola date. One note if you had tickets for Alan Stivell in Porto: that show was cancelled in August, and the Celtic harp master now plays only the CCB, on the 21st.
Tickets are on sale at the venues’ box offices, Fnac, Worten, Ticketline and BilheteiraOnline. And if November in Lisbon is already filling up, the LEFFEST film festival turns 20 from the 6th to the 15th, a few streets from several of these venues.
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