Concert
Jardim de Verão
Pop

Cati sings Sara Tavares

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Date

28 Jun 2025

17:00 / Cancelled 17:00 / Sold out Saturday, 17:00

Location

Grand Auditorium

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Cati kicks off the second weekend of the Summer Garden with a concert in honour of singer-songwriter Sara Tavares (1978-2023).

Sara Tavares carries with her the strength of what cannot be forgotten and the lightness of those who choose to fly. Cati and Sara shared the meetings and disagreements of their stories, the unusual places of a friendship far from the eyes of the world, but close to the eyes of the soul.

Now they’ve come together on stage as they would have liked to have done a long time ago: hand in hand between the dimensions of life that intertwine them, their voices meet in a concert where Sara can be contemplated through the purity with which Cati sees her.

Cati connects us to a Sara whose greatness is much more than a noise or an image, where her silences were as important as her ginga.

About the concerts

This year, the Summer Garden invites us to embark on a journey of sound where the soul dances and the body recognises itself.
From Fado to Funaná, from Semba to Gumbé, from Axé to Mbalax, passing through the eternity of Soul Music — each rhythm will be a compass and each song a territory.

To the sound of these ancestral and contemporary beats, we will land in the living imagination of countries such as Senegal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Brazil and Portugal.
Places where time becomes a drum and memory is sung with eyes closed.

A true celebration of what unites us: the pulse of freedom that resists, persists and insists on being a party.

— Dino D'Santiago

BIOGRAPHIES

Cati

With a career spanning more than 20 years, Cati has collaborated with various artists of national prominence, such as Expensive Soul, Rui Veloso, Sara Tavares, Dino D'Santiago and Cuca Roseta. In 2013, she released her first album, entitled Dentro, followed by Estrangeira (2018), where she composed her own songs and had the participation of Jaques Morelembaum as her special guest. Her current creative moment is the result of a disruptive journey of personal and artistic discovery, to which Cati has given body and voice since 2024, in concerts she has called Lugares Incomuns.

Sara Tavares

Sara Tavares (1978-2023) was a Portuguese songwriter and singer of Cape Verdean descent. She became known as the winner of the first edition of the television competition Chuva de Estrelas in 1994. That same year, she represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest. Her first album, with the collaboration of the Shout! choir, was released in 1996. Five original albums followed, the last of which was released in 2017. She died in 2023 from a brain tumour, aged just 45.

Summer Garden 2025

This event is part of Summer Garden 2025, a free admission festival with concerts, DJ sets, talks, films and dance. Learn more

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