Al-Buhera is almost there, to bring music, crafts and gastronomy to Albufeira

The Al-Buhera Festival kicks off next Wednesday, July 26, for five days of handicraft, music and gastronomy, at Praça […]

The Al-Buhera Festival starts next Wednesday, July 26, for five days of handicraft, music and gastronomy, at Praça dos Pescadores, in Albufeira.

The event, which runs from 19:00 pm to 1:00 am. Shows always start at 21 pm.

On the first day (26), the group, from Albufeira, “Banda Alhada” does the honors of the house by taking the stage before the Angolan singer and composer Matias Damásio.

Thursday (27) Vítor Bacalhau opens the program that continues with “The Black Mamba”. The following day (28) it is the turn of “Al-Buhera & Raquel Peters” to share prominence with the Resistance.

On Saturday (29), the Portuguese traditional music group José Praia & Aquaviva prepares the atmosphere to receive Miguel Araújo, and on Sunday (30), the festival says goodbye until next year with “Ben & The Pirates” in the first part and the Portuguese band of drunk e funk HMB terminating the program.

Al-Buhera will also have on display «genuine handicraft items, produced from traditional materials such as copper, wood, cork, stones and beach shells, leather goods, jewelry, textiles, painting and decorative objects, passing by Moroccan handicrafts, from Ecuador and sandals produced in Goa», explains the City Council of Albufeira.

In addition to handicrafts, visitors can find “excellent gastronomic products, including dried fruits, jams, honey, liqueurs, preserves, regional and creative sweets, food and beverage products from Madeira Island”.

To warm up the atmosphere, every day, from 19 pm, there is street entertainment before the shows with the Percussion Orchestra “Percutunes” (00 and 26), the “Al-Fanfarre” (30) and the “Caretos de Podence” ( 27 and 28).

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