Cristina Clara - Sargfabrik

Sargfabrik - Verein für integrative Lebensgestaltung, Wien

"There's an infectious radiance and joie de vivre about her music and presence on stage." (Simon Broughton, Songlines)

Cristina Clara is a singer, songwriter and traveler between musical traditions spanning the Portuguese-speaking world. Her songs emerge from encounters, stories and sounds that she collects on her travels - from fado houses in Lisbon to Cape Verdean rhythms and Brazilian melodies. Everything flows into each other, old forms meet new paths, languages merge, rhythms open up spaces.

This sound comes to life on stage. Together with musicians who are at home between jazz and oral folk music, an open, organic sound is created. Cristina's voice moves between intimacy and expansiveness, her shows are improvised dialogs between poetry and music, between tradition and her own compositions.

Her repertoire ranges from Portuguese fado to Cape Verdean morna and Brazilian choro - always with modern arrangements, lively rhythms and a subtle lightness that makes the space palpable.

Her performances include WOMEX in Manchester, the NOS Alive Festival, Teatro da Trindade in Lisbon, Atlantic Music Expo in Cape Verde, Casa de Portugal in São Paulo, Centre Culturel des Arts Pluriels in Luxembourg and the Azores International Festival.

Cristina Clara - voice, Pedro Loch - guitar