Ferro Gaita
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Date
- 19:00 / Cancelled 19:00 / Sold out Saturday, 19:00
Location
Open-Air Amphitheatre Gulbenkian Garden
Cape Verdean musicians Ferro Gaita bring Funaná to the Open-Air Amphitheatre, ensuring an exciting evening in this new edition of the Summer Garden.
Ferro Gaita was born in 1996, formed by three young musicians who discovered new paths for Funaná in the gaita – a type of accordion –, the ferro – a piece of metal played with a knife –, the drums and the bass guitar.
They started playing in bars and on the street, but soon caught people’s attention for their warm and different sound and were invited to take part in one of Cape Verde’s biggest festivals, the Gambôa Festival in Praia.
Their first album, FUNDU BAXU, was released in 1997, based on Funaná and Batuco. Winners of several awards, they have played with several young Cape Verdean musicians and performed on several renowned international stages.
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
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
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation reserves the right to collect and keep records of images, sounds and voice for the diffusion and preservation of the memory of its cultural and artistic activity. For further information, please contact us through the Information Request form.
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