Chase Ceglie is a musician and saxophonist from Newport, RI. At Fabric, he performs selections from his upcoming pop album, “Fear and Love, Together”, to be released later this year, and will be the standout American musician of this edition. He is joined by Mikel Arambarri, Andrew Wynsen and Nick Motroni. On the opening day of the festival, a QR code became available online and in the real world through stickers spread all over town and in other Massachusetts’ cities. Now, in Fabric Arts Festival 2020 online program it is available for everyone. Enjoy

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Fabric Arts Festival 2020 has a virtual life after its second edition in Fall River on October 16 & 17. A collection of 5 live music sessions presents the musicians of this year's focus, "Fados, Fairies, and Violas."

Additionally, we share 2 talks with leading cultural figures of the city who are undertaking cultural projects shaping Fall River, and a personality who has been vital in bridging The United States and Portugal.

This talk is titled BRIDGING PORTUGUESE AND AMERICAN CULTURE, a conversation between John Vasconcellos (President of the SouthCoast Community Foundation) and teacher, writer Onésimo Teotónio de Almeida.

Fado Bicha is an artivist project, created in 2017 by Lila Fadista and João Caçador.
They draw inspiration from the early XIX century's underground settings when fado was sung in brothels and cheap taverns and was the free expression of the morally and economically outcast. Using fado as a versatile tool, Fado Bicha gives voice to the LGBTI community's narratives in Portugal. It is a political project of representation that questions social and artistic barriers based on subverting heteronormativity.

This video integrated Fados, Fairies and Violas, a program that focuses on a group of Portuguese artists and musicians working in and around forms of Fado and Portuguese traditional songs/instruments that reinterpret principles of identity, history, and belonging.

Video filmed by Casota Collective at Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Lisbon.

Ricardo Rocha is an awarded Portuguese guitar player and composer. He picked up the guitar when at eight and performed throughout his teens with countless Fado ensembles – a genre from which he has cut himself loose. Ricardo wrote his first pieces for solo Portuguese guitar in 1994 and has since created a body of work influenced by serial, late-romantic, impressionist, and minimalist practices. His three solo recordings - Voluptuária (2003), Luminismo (2010), and Resplandecente (2014) won numerous recognitions and awards. Ricardo resumed public performance in 2017, after a six-year hiatus, and is currently composing sets of preludes for the Portuguese guitar.

This video integrates the program Fados, Fairies and Violas focusing on a group of Portuguese artists and musicians working in and around forms of Fado and Portuguese traditional songs/instruments that reinterpret principles of identity, history, and belonging.

The video was originally recorded by Casota Collective at FLAD Foundation in Lisbon.

Fabric Arts Festival 2020 has a virtual life after its second edition in Fall River on October 16 & 17. A collection of 5 live music sessions presents the musicians of this year's focus, "Fados, Fairies, and Violas."

Additionally, we share 2 talks with leading cultural figures of the city who are undertaking cultural projects shaping Fall River, and a personality who has been vital in bridging The United States and Portugal.

This talk is titled VIVA FALL RIVER, moderated by Patti Rego ( We Love Fall River) with Michael Benevides, Brittni Ann Harvey, Harry Gould Harvey, IV, Alfred Lima, Sarah Labossiere and Jim McKeag.

The project Lavoisier was built from the inner need to make music. Whether it is sung in Portuguese or English, it doesn’t matter since the principal purpose is to fulfill our first instinct: music. Lavoisier is a Portuguese couple influenced by each other and the whole world of sensations that music can bring along. While sharing the same spirit of the Tropicalistas, Michel Giacometti, and Fernando Lopes Graça, they head towards their musical expression, with no fears and no preconceptions about anything.

This video is part of program Fados, Fairies and Violas focusing on a group of Portuguese artists and musicians working in and around forms of Fado and Portuguese traditional songs/instruments that reinterpret principles of identity, history, and belonging.

The video was originally recorded by Casota Collective at FLAD Foundation in Lisbon.

From a very early age, Gaspar Varela wished to learn how to play the Portuguese guitar to accompany his great-grandmother, the Fado singer Celeste Rodrigues. At just seven years old, he achieved this dream under his teacher and mentor's guidance, the guitar player Paulo Parreira. Gaspar has already participated in three albums, "Saudade do Futuro", "Brincar aos Fados" and "Vozes de Amália." At 15 years old, Gaspar was the youngest guitarist to have a sold-out concert at the renowned concert hall CCB in Lisbon. Madonna invited him to be part of her Madame X Tour, where he played with her band for the past year.

This video is part of program Fados, Fairies and Violas focusing on a group of Portuguese artists and musicians working in and around forms of Fado and Portuguese traditional songs/instruments that reinterpret principles of identity, history, and belonging.

The video was originally recorded by Casota Collective at FLAD Foundation in Lisbon.

Rafael Carvalho is the singularity of viola da terra: the viola of the two hearts, the sister of the braguesa, the viola of the Azores par excellence. He is one of the most talented Azorean musicians of the present time. Professor, musical director, cultural producer, composer, and writer, he is the instrument's main living force. He has performed in the nine islands of the Azores, nationally and internationally, in the most varied formations. "Origins" is his first moving and memorable record, followed by "Parallel 38" in 2014, and "Relheiras" in 2017.

This video is part of program Fados, Fairies and Violas focusing on a group of Portuguese artists and musicians working in and around forms of Fado and Portuguese traditional songs/instruments that reinterpret principles of identity, history, and belonging.

This video was originally recorded by Cactus Produções, at Palácio Sant’ana, in Ponta Delgada.