Setubal Festival – Song Factory

by | Jul 30, 2019 | IFR, Portugal, Setubal

This was an event that, on paper, looked like a modest community Saturday morning song concert but then turned out to be a highly inventive and hugely moving piece of musical story-telling. Tough old blokes like me were choking back the tears at the end – not because of the drama but because of the extraordinary achievement of the performers…

Setubal Festival – Camerata

by | Jul 24, 2019 | IFR, Portugal, Setubal

There are sentences you never expect to write as a commentator and this is one of them; the young string players of the festival camerata, most of them still students, were directed from the carnyx. That’s how it was…