To close out this Portuguese-accented Festival, who better than this superb ambassadress of the new generation of fado singers, considered by many to be the most important singer in the genre? Welcome none other than Portugal’s Ana Moura. Winner of the Amália Rodrigues Award for Best Fado Performer of 2007, platinum-selling artist, she’s sung with Mick Jagger, counts Prince among her fervent admirers, and is making her first visit to Montreal… and after you’ve heard her, you’ll be clamoring for her next one! Her most recent album available here, Para além da saudade—another collaboration with celebrated composer-producer-arranger-guitarist Jorge Fernando, already known for his work with the great Amelia—testifies to the vitality of the genre: with her incredible voice, powerful enough to forego the mic, her sincere and elegant vocalizing, whether in her own songs or traditional pieces, she carries forward the tradition of saudade, the universally touching Portuguese theme of longing and nostalgia.