While chasing a dream

Image by Francisca Ribeiro

Oh, the chimes are sounding,

and they echo wildly off the canyon walls.

This is wild land humming.

These are ancient songs that fill my body.

Oh, the light is astounding.

Its golden lashes sweep the old growth.

This is my joy spiraling.

These are my spoils for simply breathing.

Still, with all my faults,

I draw my breath from an ancient earth.

Oh the light is astounding,

like a sulfur cloud amongst these stately pines.

I could hold my gaze as stead,

and in a thousand years we’d verily think the same.

Still, with all my faults,

I draw my breath from an ancient earth.

For what it’s worth,

I draw my breath from an ancient earth.

CHIMES by Bowerbirds

*Merry Christmas*

* we wish you a bright Christmas * with warm hearts * among your loved ones *

The silent downfall

The silent downfall of Portugal, what was once prospering is now falling apart, the crisis came down hard and now we ask the question: will Portugal rise again?

By Jens Selin

Tales of Hope

The opening is already next Friday and I hope the friends that are close can join us!
Esperamos a vossa preciosa visita!!

Galeria 102 – Correio do Ribatejo
Rua Serpa Pinto nº102, 
Santarém, PT

Autumn Blues, part 2

Autumn brings grey weather and depression is close but, if you stop and look you will see it's beauty and joy will fill your heart again.

By Jens Selin

(♥♥)

Happy happy birthday my wild Love!!!*

Autumn Blues

Autumn brings grey weather and depression is close but, if you stop and look you will see it's beauty and joy will fill your heart again.

By Jens Selin

Le Tendre Amour

Our friend Adriana Alcaide is an incredible Catalan violinist and we are so proud to share her new international music project, Le Tendre Amour:

Taking its name from a prevalent theme of the age of Louis XIV, Le Tendre Amour is an energetic group of musicians who have been drawn together by their common dedication to performing music of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in a way that is inspiring to the audiences of today. Listen to us HERE. 

Since their beginning, the emphasis has been in creating unusual programs, always with the aim of pleasing audience of all ages. See WEB Le Tendre Amour and Le Tendre Amour on FACEBOOK. 

The members of Le Tendre Amour are quite international! Japanese soprano Michiko Takahashi, German baritone Bernhard Hansky, Catalan violinists Adriana Alcaide and María Gomis, American oboist Katy Elkin, French traverso player Sébastien Perrin , Mexican theorbo player Krishnasol Jiménez, Cuban gambist Lixsania Fernández and Argentinean harpsichordist Esteban Mazer will meet and work in the international language - music. 

Verkami has opened the possibility to finance a part of our third CD that we will record this month, a tantalizing collection of the beautiful yet previously unrecorded French baroque cantatas by René Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760) and find out all about Le Tender Amour in Verkami here. We are counting on your help now, since it is only with your support that we can make this recording possible! 

Here's to the start of something big

 

Joana & Rodrigo

by Francisca Ribeiro

 

Almost five months have passed since our friends wedding and it was a very special and dear love celebration. These photos were one of my gifts to the loving couple and I wish they keep on growing stronger together, with all the happiness and tender love ♥

Staying warm

The trick of staying warm when the cold season begins is: lots of food, lots of vodka, lots of dancing and most important good company :) we are grateful to have such sweet neighbours.

By Jens Selin