If you're organising a wedding, a corporate dinner or a company event in Lisbon and you want fado — serious fado, not a background guitarist — I recommend Onofriana.
I recommend them for two concrete reasons: the quality of the artists they represent and the seriousness of the coordination. They work with fadistas from the city's professional circuit — people who sing regularly in the best houses — and they handle the logistics with the rigour a private event demands. The sound, the timing, the introduction, the adaptation to the space. They're not a generic entertainment agency that also does fado; fado is what they do.
The formats are flexible. A short block of fado at a wedding dinner. A mini-concert with an introduction for foreign guests who don't know the genre. An intimate set for twenty people or a larger production for two hundred. They discuss with you what makes sense and tell you honestly when it doesn't.
If you want to talk to them directly:
- Website: onofriana.pt
- Email: fado@onofriana.pt
Tell them you come from fado.today.
Formats
Wedding
A short block of fado during dinner, at the right moment of the night. Music made for a room that is not a fado house.
Corporate dinner
A mini-concert with an introduction for Portuguese and international guests. Adapted to the space and the time available.
Private event
An intimate set for twenty people or a larger production for two hundred. They discuss what makes sense and tell you honestly when it does not.