Poster heads on the first day, New Yorkers closed the night with an energy and memorable performance, leaving the audience anxious for the next days of the festival.
A 31st edition of Vodafone Paredes de Coura tore off this Wednesday with a first night that was anything but shy: it was a celebration of styles that traveled from indie rock to psycho.
The sun was still lurking over the Taboão river beach when the crowd began to fill the lawn, smelling the fresh herb and sunscreen to mix with the excitement that felt in the air.
Portugal in double dose
The Portuguese Samuel Uria kicked off the main stage. The Tondelense musician brought with him ‘2000 A.D.’yours The latest project in which it is stimulated by the current reality and the frustration felt with the signs of civilizational regression.
Then the Portuguese also Unsafe Space Garden They took the secondary stage with inexhaustible energy. The Guimarães Band used Humor, energy, color and chaos to “overthrow walls”.
When the sky is already tinked in shades of dark, Zaho de Sagazan He brought his French electro-pop with Chanson Laios. The young artist, one of the revelations of the poster, hypnotized with her ethereal voice and beats that made the floor shake.
These vampires do not want blood
And then, of course, came the heads of poster: Vampire Weekend. New Yorkers, who had no longer stepped on Portuguese soil for some time, arrived with the mission of turning Coura into a giant party, and got it.
From the early chords of ‘Holiday’ to the collective ecstasy of ‘A-Punk’ and ‘Oxford Comma’, the band led by Ezra Koenig delivered a flawless set, with saxophone soils that made the audience be hypnotized between the hills.
The audience, exhausted but radiant, did not want the night to end.
With three days ahead and names like Franz Ferdinand, Portugal. The Man, King Krule and Air on the Horizon, Paredes de Coura promises to remain the epicenter of magic musical.
