The Algarve singer Susana Travassos participates, this Thursday, September 09, at 20:30 pm, in the “She Arts Festival” to be held in Cairo (Egypt), accompanied by Elodie Bouny (French guitarist) and Martín Sued (Argentine bandoneonist) both based in Portugal.
In this concert, Susana presents original themes from her latest album, “Pássaro Palavra”, as well as important themes from her career, ranging from fado to Latin American songbooks. This is the first edition of an exclusively female Festival, which is still relevant in an Arab country.
The "She Arts” is an international exhibition of art and culture three-day event that introduces women to a wide range of artistic creations that tell and share women's stories and perspectives with the community and where women artists from around the world and artists portraying women in music, performance, visual arts, poetry and others will be present. cultural activities of a popular nature.
In addition to their participation in this Festival, Susana Travassos and Elodie Bouny will also give a concert at the famous Cairo Jazz Club, on September 12th.
Susana Travassos has an unusual trajectory and a strong connection with Latin America. He lived for almost ten years between Brazil and Argentina, where he recorded his latest album, Bird Word, and performed alongside great names in music, such as Toninho Horta, Yamandu Costa, Carlos Aguirre, Chico Cesar, Zeca Baleiro, among others .
Elodie Bouny is a classical guitarist, born in Venezuela, but raised in France, where she began and completed most of her studies at the Conservatories of Boulogne-Billancourt and Strasbourg. He lived and studied in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, where he got close to Latin music, and today he lives in Lisbon.
Martín Sued also resides in Lisbon and is a bandoneon virtuoso, considered one of the most outstanding Argentine instrumentalists of his generation. As a composer, he proposes new approaches to the instrument. In 2020, he created the sextet Martín Sued and the Orquestra Assintomática, an original music project for a formation that includes instruments typical of a tango orchestra, whose sound has contemporary colors, but with roots in Argentine popular music.
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