Well, not exactly, but I rather enjoyed playing with the Cotonete headline. The article goes on to further elucidate what the great and the good of the Portuguese music scene are up to, in the next few months.

- Camané is this evening playing in Luxemburg
- Deolinda are playing in Glasgow, Scotland in a BBC concert, then move on to Paris.
- The fadista Ana Moura will be performing in Canada, Germany, and New York City and Los Angeles in the USA
- Unlike last year, Buraka Som Sistema have decided to take it easy and just play New York City in April
- Marizia is playing England, Ireland and Turkey in February. in March, she's going to Germany, Austria and Holland.
- :papercutz are playing South By Southwest, Texas in March.
- The lisboetas Klepht are not traveling, however, except to record their next record in the USA

Source: Cotonete

It's nothing if not an ambitious project: produce a comprehensive printed encyclopedia of Portuguese music in the 20th Century. But such a work has now been published, and was recently launched at Teatro S. Carlos in Lisboa.

The work, entitled "Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no século XX" represents "a labour of love" over 13 years under the direction of ethnomusicologist Salwa Castelo-Branco. The book covers pop-rock, fado, jazz, and both popular and "erudite" music. To ensure the gravity of each entry, works were considered for a period of three years before inclusion.

The encyclopedia is published in four volumes of approximately 15,000 pages, and contains 1250 entries related to musical genres, artists, composers, writers, instruments, institutes and schools, among others. The last volume contains artists from the 1990s.

Source: SIC News