Date: April 5th, 2025
Opening time: Doors open at 9pm. Concerts start at 21:30.
Location: LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas
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General Public: 10€ / 7,50€(Friend of LAC) – Includes a beer, or juice, or water
Students: 5€ – Includes juice or water
Children under 12 don’t pay
Malotira
Malotira is a band based in Portugal that plays traditional Mediterranean and Balkan music, giving visibility and value to the shared cultures and diversities of these regions while offering a reinterpretation of their sounds for a new generation. Since forming in Lisbon in 2020, Malotira have recorded an EP and toured Bulgaria twice. They have performed all over Portugal in concert halls and festivals, such as Cinema São Jorge (Olhares do Mediterrâneo Festival) and the Coach Museum on Mediterranean Day.
With their unique arrangements, captivating voice and vibrant traditional dances, Malotira present a repertoire of songs from the Greek, Italian, Slavic, Gypsy and Sephardic traditions – among others, played to honor their roots while taking the sounds in new directions with carefully chosen fusions.
The band members come from Italy, Chile and the UK, each with different musical backgrounds that reflect the unifying spirit of understanding and diversity through musical dialog and cultural exchange.
Sebastião Silva
What happens when you no longer have the entire library of sounds you’ve accumulated just a click away? Or even a cool effect? Or another companion to give you something you couldn’t remember or do on your own?
The project was born from this constraint: to explore and build only with acoustic sound. Trying to do with a guitar what you wouldn’t normally look at the means to achieve. Captivate people. Since we no longer have a multitude of exuberant sounds at the touch of a button, nor much room to maneuver around us, the only direction left is inwards. It is by delving into the depths that we find powerful emotions, catharsis and also ourselves. All this with the music serving as a common link between musician and audience.
Sebastião Silva is a guitarist and composer from Aveiro, who offers the audience an acoustic, introspective journey of active listening. He asks the audience to participate without having to stand up or respond, but rather to look. It’s an invitation to look at the sounds like someone looking at a painting or to inhabit that painting as if it were a lived memory. It sounds complicated, but it’s fun.
Influenced by classical music, his guitar wanders through landscapes, stories, moments and rhythms that make your helmet shake.
