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Don’t forget to keep an opening in your agenda for next Sunday, October 30^th. There’s a bands gathering in Machico that’s sure to make your afternoon something different.

On the 120^th anniversary of the Banda Municipal de Machico (Machico’s municipal band) there is, amongst other events, a march through the main roads of the town by the band accompanied by two others: Santana’s and Camara de Lobos’. Starting at 15h00 the sounds of many players will converge towards the Solar do Ribeirinho, where the regional bands’ gathering is to take place.

The Banda Municipal de Machico is made out of 45 members on its main team, the philharmonic, but it also has learning echelons, like the Escola da Banda, with almost 30 members, the youth band, with twenty, some of them coming from the Escola da Banda, and there’s also the Tuna de Cantares, more geared towards Portuguese popular music, and in this case made out mainly of traditional Madeiran instruments. They also have a school, so it’s more than a hundred people who go through their headquarters, the Casa da Música, every week.

Don’t miss the bands gathering, next Sunday, at 3.

“The great organ of the Colégio church walks down from its stand to present himself to the children” The inhabitants of the village of Do-Mi-Sol – Mrs Chica, Barnabé, João and many others, come with the story, in the images and the way Ines Machado improvises on the organ. To each character there’s a specific corresponding children’s song, a new sonority, a new fact of the instrument.

Foto: FB Sofia Maul
A contadora de histórias volta hoje a encantar crianças

The story teller will today again charm children, but in a different scenario, the Colegio church.

And this i show this afternoon’s programme of the Madeira Organ Festival is presented, an event that joins the young organ player to story teller Sofia Maul. They succeeded in gathering over five hundred children at the Colegio church, starting at 15h00. Coming from seven different schools, and with ages between 6 and 12 they are to experience something unique in their lives.

Also today, the Madeira Organ festival goes on, with a concert in the church of São Pedro (Funchal city center). Starting at 21h30 organist António Esteireiro and baritone Armando Possante will perform a programme of sacred sonatas by Rheineberger. A similar programme to the one performed last Sunday in  Porto da Cruz, at the church of Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe.

Mozart – or rather, his sonatas – will be in the Funchal Cathedral this Saturday evening. Starting at 21h30, the composer’s music will sound by the hands of Tiago Ferreira (organist) and the Orquestra Classica da Madeira.

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The event takes place on the second night of the7th edition of the Madeira Organ festival, organized by Direcção Regional de Cultura – Secretaria Regional da Economia, Turismo e Cultura, under the artistic direction of João Vaz.

Wolfgand Amadeus Mozart wrote these sonatas to be played in the Salzburg cathedral. They are fairly short pieces (mass couldn’t exceed one hour), but they are now considered little musical gems, some similar to organ and orchestra concerts in miniature, spreading pleasure amongst all who hear them.

Until October 30^th, the 7^th Madeira Organ Festival offers locals and visitors a total of eleven concerts, all of them freely accessible, in Funchal and in Machico, namely in the parish church of Machico and in Porto da Cruz, while in Funchal the concerst take place at the Colégio, the Cathedral, the churches of São Pedro and São Martinho and the convents of Santa Clara and Bom Jesus.

For the young and the not so young, for skaters and mountain bikers, the city of Funchal built the city’s skatepark, operating in the gardens nest to the cable car station, in the heart of the old town.

This was the first of the “Participated Budget” projects to have been completed, and this kind of initiatives is part of the council’s strategy to involve more citizens in the decision process of the town.

As a way of celebrating the new structure, an Open will take place, with a prize money of 2500 euros. This is to take place on October 22^nd and 23^rd, Saturday and Sunday, from 10h00 to 19h00.

After similar invitations issued to Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Futebol Clube do Porto, Sporting Club de Portugal is to be received in the Machico council, next October 28th, at 11h00.

The club’s main team, playing in Portugal’s premier league, will be received by the council’s president, Ricardo Franco and his team, in the Machico council on the very day that Sporting plays Nacional.

The players present will only be known at the last minute, as this depends on the players called on to play, but will be led by the club’s president, Bruno Carvalho, with the club being the pet club of many Machico residents.

This is the last of the so called “big three” visits to the Machico council.