Nuno Cristo (Portuguese guitar) and Larry Lewis (classical guitar) bring you the music of Fado, the songs of destiny from the narrow cobbled streets of urban Portugal. Fado, the mysterious song of Lisbon, is not only music, poetry, speech or attitude but life itself...

Central to the universe of Fado music is the instrument known as the Portuguese guitar. This type of cittern played in Portugal since medieval times under the name "cítara" was greatly influenced by the introduction of a similar instrument from England, the "English guitar", in the second half of the 18th century and after a complex process of adaptation and evolution it became the most Portuguese of all instruments.