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Set in a converted nineteenth-century townhouse on Rua de Sao Mamede in the historic Castelo district of central Lisbon, the Associacao do Fado Casto is one of the principal modern centres of the wider Portuguese fado musical tradition. The association was founded in around 2017 by the Portuguese fado singer and educator Carlos do Carmo as a deliberate not-for-profit alternative to the increasingly commercialised tourist-focused fado venues of the surrounding central Lisbon historic districts. ...