Costa Vicentina Early Music Fest 2025

The COSTA VICENTINA Early Music Fest brings to the Algarve national and international professional musicians whose specialised historical perspective explores and demonstrates the many cross-cultural influences of this early music. We hear the musical connections between the West and the East, between Europe and Asia, and between the past and the present.For 2025, and maintaining the fundamental strategic partnership with the Municipality of Vila do Bispo, the opening concert will feature Noa Noa Ensemble (Filipe Faria, Tiago Matias and Baltazar Molina) on 16 August at 6pm in the main church (Igreja Matriz) of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Vila do Bispo, focusing on Iberian music between ancestry and contemporaneity, with the programme ‘Língua’. At 11:00 am, in the same space, there will be an open class on historical plucked string instruments, with Tiago Matias.On the same weekend, we propose the extension of the strategic partnership with the Municipality of Aljezur and Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Aljezur, with a concert by Noa Noa Ensemble on 17 August at 4pm, at the Church of Misericórdia de Aljezur, with the support of CCDR I.P.COSTA VICENTINA Early Music Fest closes on 23/24 August at the Fortaleza de Sagres - Museus e Monumentos de Portugal E.P.E, on a weekend dedicated to the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. It will begin with a concert by the Ensemble AntiQuorum (Ana Sousa, Nuno de Mendonça Raimundo et al) on 23rd August at 5 p.m., focusing on Iberian music from the era of maritime expansion, and will end on 24th August, Sunday, with a workshop/performance directed by Ana Celorico Machado at 2:00 pm and a lecture by Nuno de Mendonça Raimundo (CESEM) at 4:00 pm, thus closing the 3rd Edition.Free admission subject to the venue’s availability.More information: ocorvoearaposacultural@gmail.com