When you think about a cello you may be immediately driven to a certain space where melancholy and classicism co-exist.
North-Carolina-native Kelsey Lu is a classically trained cellist, however, her approach to the instrument is truly unconventional. As The Guardian states “Kelsey Lu deals in music where the unifying genre is, essentially, beauty.”. Having collaborated with many, including Blood Orange, Kelela, Florence + The Machine, Jamie XX, Solange, Kamasi Washington and Sampha, with Blood, her debut album, she unveils a whole new territory for her music. Dream-pop, blues, electronics, classical and ambient music are put together in a very contemporary, definitively L. A. sound, driven by a surreally powerful voice.

It only took two albums for the world to understand the special place that Lula Pena claims for herself in world music.
A singer-poet, a mysterious woman that hides behind the guitar to best surprise us, an exquisite composer whose music is a living organism.
Her music exists in a strange ocean, bordered by continents called folk blues, flamenco, French chanson, fado, bossa nova amongst others, grazing them all and leaving none intact. A unique, deep voice, inspired by multiple references, playing with borders and with the best poetry that gathers a worldwide stream of devoted followers, in a kind of international secret society that awaits every public appearance.

After 2017, it became clear that music had to reconnect with a past of political engaged bands.
Down to the basics is really simple: either you live comfortably with the reigning power structures, or you choose to use your music as a vehicle for the dismantling of oppression and the creation of something better. In this scenario, the position of Providence, RI’s Downtown Boys is very clear: they are here to topple the white-cis-het hegemony and draft a new history. This is how Downtown Boys began, combining revolutionary ideals with boundless energy and contagious, inclusive fun. They’re using the platform and success they've reached as a megaphone for their protest music, amplifying and centering Chicana, queer, and Latino voices in the far-too-whitewashed world of rock.

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Mal Devisa began playing music at age 12 when she and a group of friends started an all-female band Who’da Funk it?.
After 5 years of performing, writing and recording, Mal Devisa began to learn bass and save scraps of her forgotten songs. Mal Devisa started soon after, out of slanted basement walls and busted, dusty kick drums. Her sound spans jazz, noise, folk, hip hop, experimental and many other forms. Her lyrics are venomous and then sweet, her rhythms are lightning and whisper into the haunting DIY spaces she stumbles into.
With incredible live performances, the project becomes more of a feeling, a moment, a time in space that requires you to get real and lost, with no intention of being found.

MEDEIROS/LUCAS two islanders separated in age by thirty years and plotting to set their musical roots into motion. Both come from the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago lost halfway between the old and the new continent, home to sailors, gone whalers and volcanic landscapes.

Medeiros brings the salt of the sea in his voice - a spell casting, mesmerizing, sharp and deep vehicle shaped to convey stories in a piercing and the most touching manner. Lucas creates the settings, adding youth and irreverence forged into the poignant finger picking of his guitars and the technological embroideries of his productions.

They have released a trilogy of records - Mar Aberto (2015), Terra do Corpo (2016), and Sol de Março (2018). Their sound is disarmingly honest, raw at times. It sways melancholia and satire in tribal rhythms and ancient traditions while having both feet standing firmly in the present-day.

The entrance for MEDEIROS/LUCAS (friday September 27th, 9:00 pm) show is free of charge, but The Eagle has limited capacity. Therefore, spectators need to pick up their free tickets in advance. Tickets will be available for pick on the following schedules and venues. Maximum 2 tickets per person.

7:00 pm Friday 27 September - The Eagle

The Portuguese Philharmonic bands of Fall River have a very rich history of providing music to community.
The United Bands Project will unite the Saint Anthony’s Band, Our Lady of Light Band, S.C. Mosteirense Band and Santa Cecilia Band in a special concert that will pay homage to American and Portuguese traditions.

Insularity has its ways over identity.
Born in São Miguel, Azores, Island Man (the artistic alter ego for Manel Furtado) may have moved to the United States, but his songs have never completely left the imaginary of an island marked by a special sense of belonging.
With a unique voice that is drenched in a sweet raspy tone, Island Man drifts between rock and folk with clear American roots, confronting it with that soul essence and heart-felt emotions that are still very portuguese.

Nick Schiarizzi - (CHERYL, Owl) NYC DJ and video artist extraordinaire.
Co-owner of East Village arts space SSHH and Massachusetts native.

Alberonero was born in Lodi in 1991 where he began to experiment with graffiti at the age of fifteen.
His commitment made him develop a very personal, brutal and childlike style of painting.
In 2013, he graduated in Interior Design at the Milan Polytechnic, where he initiated his studies around the perception of color and became passionate about the emotional possibilities given by tonal combinations and the way visual arts could be used to reduce the world to color and sensations. He creates public art, pictorial and installation works all around the world and intervenes in natural environments with different media. His works come from an intimate dialogue with space, and a conception of art as a poetic and fundamental element of the landscape.
Alberonero has participated in many artistic events including XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition, Farm Cultural Park, Altrove Festival, Art Basel Miami, Big City Life. He has done solo and group exhibitions in Italy, France, Ukraine, Spain, Florida, Germany, Argentina and Indonesia and he has carried out participatory art projects and color workshops.

Elian Chali, 1988.
Born and based in Cordoba, Argentina. His works are characterized by the close dialogue with the environment that surrounds them.
Architecture, climate and socio-politics are some of the factors that move Elian to compose through basic geometry and abstraction.
The main theme of his work is the city. Through photography and painting, Elian seeks to open discussion that goes from the current social problems, to the poetry of the habitat in which we live. With more than 10 collective shows and 3 solo shows, his artworks can be found in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, the United States, France, England, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Peru, Dominican Republic, Russia and Uruguay.

Bráulio Amado is a graphic designer and illustrator from Portugal, currently living in New York City.
He worked at Pentagram, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wieden Kennedy, and now runs his own studio, BAD Studio. He works for clients such as Good Room, The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Sony, Nike, Adidas, Disney, Outdoor Voices, and has collaborated with artists including Frank Ocean, Washed Out, Róisín Murphy, and Robyn. He also co-runs the NYC multi-purpose art space Sixth Street Haunted House (SSHH).

Under the moniker WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA), this contemporary design studio and collective explores the many possibilities of visual creation, destroying the idea that a designer must be constrained to a singular expertise. Exploring the idea of dynamic creation, they develop visual systems that can be presented at multiple scales. These solutions take the form of branding, spatial, environmental, interactive, or print projects.

Jonathan Saldanha lives in Porto and works with video art, music and movement.
As a composer and musician, he has played several festivals and venues inside and outside of Portugal, such as Sónar, Primavera Sound, Issue Project Room, Elevate and OUT.FEST.
His installations and performances have been featured in Serralves Museum, Accès(s) Festival, DañsFabrik, Palais de Tokyo or Culturgest (Portugal).

Catarina Miranda has been developing and presenting projects in the area of performing arts and movement, crossing several artistic languages, from dance to voice, from set design to light. Her work centers on the reflection about the way we perceive and use our body as a vehicle of hypnagogic transformation and conscience.

Rene Gagnon was born in 1971 and knew at an early age that he wanted to explore and define his artistic identity through street art.
Gagnon’s alias was called SNO and under that name he started exploring the rebellious nature of urban street art. Later on he started reflecting on the bare nature of street art and felt the need to incorporate different techniques, unveiling the possibilities of mixing expressionism with urban art and developing more subtle and elaborate fusion of styles.
He paints graffiti using stencils, but he also draws, illustrates and works with wheat pasting in the Massachusetts area and all the way to New York.

Diogo Lima was born in 1993 in São Miguel.
Graduated in Film, Video and Multimedia Communication.
He directed PDL-LIS around 2012 - a first short documentary following his own roots awarded at Panazorean IFF.
In the following years he splits himself between directing and editing. As an editor, he builds a portfolio essentially comprised of TV, web and film ads.
As a director, he strolls between music videos, ads and short narrative formats, such as his continuous work with Azorean-based festival Tremor.

Paulo Abreu was born in Lisbon. He worked in EMI/Valentim de Carvalho Gallery and directed videos for several dance, theater and music shows.
In 1992, he represented Portugal in the Mediterranean Young Artists Biennale in Valencia, Spain.
He collaborated with several visual artists and participated in several collective exhibitions. He's a founding member of Daltonic Brothers, a duo that manipulates image, draws satirical comics and creates animation and experimental movies.
He's worked as a DOP and/or cameraman in several fiction movies, documentaries and music videos for directors such as Bruno de Almeida, Patrick Mendes, Rodrigo Areias, André Gil Mata, Luís Alves de Matos, Edgar Feldman and Jorge Quintela.
He directed more than 20 experimental films, the majority of them in Super 8, that have been selected, screened and awarded in film festivals throughout the world (DocLisboa, IndieLisboa, MotelX, Curtas Vila do Conde, Edinburgh Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, New York Indie DocFest, Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo, amongst others).

Miguel C. Tavares works as an independent filmmaker, after having studied architecture at FAUP.
He was awarded a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology for the research project ‘Ruptura Silenciosa’ and he was a member of the DOSE collective.
The highlights of his body of work includes the series “Specific Atmosphere” (Portugal, 2016-17), the short films “In Between” (Hong Kong, 2017), “Become Ocean” (Azores, 2017) and “Cloud Tryptic” (2017, best brand reel in the FFF). The film “The Construction of Villa Além” (Alentejo, 2017) had its world premiere in IndieLisboa.
He has been collaborating with several artists such as Nuno Pimenta, José Alberto Gomes, Sonoscopia, Carla Pontes, and institutions such as the Portuguese Association of Architects and the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra, Nowness and Canal180.

José Alberto Gomes
Musician, sound artist and curator from Porto, Portugal. Graduate in Music Composition, he created strong bonds with new technological possibilities and the role of music in music theatre, film, installations and electronic improvisation, taking particular interest in seeking new ways and new musical “places”.

Has completed his PhD in Computer Music and he is a professor at Alberta University and School of Arts -UCP, teaching Digital Art, Sound and Computer Music. Among the several ongoing projects are the launch of the album IO of the project BLACKOYOTE and the program of the educational project Braga Media Arts - UNESCO creative city

Diana Vidrascu is a filmmaker and artist based in Paris, France.
In her films, photography and installations, Vidrașcu examines analogue film techniques, thereby questioning the cinematic medium’s codes and conventions. By consistently interrupting the logical sequence of events she underlines memory’s fallibility as well as our subjective, individual experiences of time and reality.