24 July - Friday

Sines

Lavoisier (Portugal)

Sines - Castelo | 18h00 | Free admission

A love letter to contemporary poetry in Portuguese. This marks the debut of Lavoisier - the project of Patrícia Relvas (vocals) and Roberto Afonso (vocals and guitar) - at the festival. They arrive with the album “era com h”, released in 2025, built upon the words of ten poets - Alice Neto de Sousa, Filipe Homem Fonseca, José Anjos, José Luís Peixoto, Maria Giulia Pinheiro, Maria do Rosário Pedreira, Nástio Mosquito, Nuno Miguel Guedes, Raquel Nobre Guerra and Vinicius Terra - all contributing previously unpublished texts, all reflecting on the times we live in. Joining the founding duo are guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Branco, bassist Ricardo Dias Gomes, and drummer and percussionist Diogo Sousa.

Aïta Mon Amour et Ouled Abda (Morocco / Tunisia)

Sines - Castelo | 21h00 | Buy ticket

Aïta is a musical genre rooted in rural Morocco, traditionally performed by the Cheikhats, professional singers and dancers sometimes marginalised because of their way of life. As the name itself suggests, Aïta Mon Amour pays tribute to this artistic form, with Widad Mjama on lead vocals and pads, and Tunisian musician Khalil Epi on outar, mandola, synthesisers and backing vocals. This is both a homage to and a modernisation of aïta, presented here in an expanded version featuring six additional musicians (violin, outar, cello, drums/percussion and two backing vocalists). A journey across the plains of the historic Abda region in west-central Morocco, cradle of this ancestral expression.

A Garota Não (Portugal)

Sines - Castelo | 22h15 | Buy ticket

A project reflecting on the times we live in through socially engaged poetry. A social and political journey to which Setúbal artist Cátia Mazari Oliveira gave the name A Garota Não. Her first concert in Sines, during an afternoon of free speech at the Castle, was one of the most striking performances of 2023. She returns three years later with the album “Ferry Gold”, born from “other people’s texts, beats, paintings, obsessions, parliamentary speeches and news reports. From places where sometimes only nature keeps the days sane.” The Troia of her childhood summers, increasingly inaccessible to ordinary people, becomes a metaphor for our unequal times. In her socially conscious music, the struggle goes on.

Otto (Brazil)

Sines - Castelo | 23h30 | Buy ticket

A musician with nearly 30 years of history and life on the road behind him. A singer, percussionist and composer born in the Agreste region of Pernambuco, Otto has experimented throughout his career with a wide range of styles: from maracatu to brega, passing through samba, rock, electronica and manguebeat. It was first as percussionist for Mundo Livre and Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, pioneers of the manguebeat movement, that he made his mark. In 1998, with “Samba pra Burro”, he debuted under his own name. Since then, he has travelled many different paths, most of them largely unexplored. In Sines, he presents “Otto Apocalíptico”, a performance built around songs from across his extensive discography.

Saad Tiouly (Morocco)

Sines - Palco Galp @ Av. Vasco da Gama | 01h00 | Free admission

Raised in the labyrinths of Casablanca’s medina, he developed from an early age a deep affinity with Morocco’s many popular musical traditions. He grew up practising styles such as gnawa, issawa and dakka marrakchia. Among these rhythms, gnawa - an inheritance from West African slaves - resonated with him in a particular way. Connected to Sufi mysticism, gnawa is music of trance. Saad Tiouly takes that characteristic and gives it a modern dimension through the creation of hypnotic soundscapes close to the psychedelic universe. An innovator with a love of detail, the clothes he wears on stage were designed by himself, and the instruments he plays (beginning with his gnawa string instrument, the guembri) were built by his own hands.

Pedro da Linha (Portugal)

Sines - Palco Galp @ Av. Vasco da Gama | 02h30 | Free admission

One of the most stimulating territories in new Portuguese music today is electronica. Producer, DJ and composer Pedro da Linha has made an important contribution to it. Building a sound where urban, African and Latin rhythms intersect, Pedro da Linha chose his artistic name as a tribute to the Sintra railway line (Linha de Sintra). He is a son of Damaia, where the multicultural energy of the Lisbon region pulses strongly. In this, his first performance in Sines, Pedro da Linha will be joined by Pedro Ferreira on bass and electric guitar, and Zé Cruz on viola, tambourine, percussion and trumpet. Following the EP “Dicas”, released in 2024 by Enchufada, he is currently cooking up his new album.