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Live music in Panjim: All about Madragoa
Navigating the streets of Panjim, we finally find our destination bang opposite river Mandovi. We ignore the neon lights of the casinos, show our bookings, and walk up the wooden staircase. A chandelier lights up an azulejo, Portuguese-era hand painted glazed colour tiles. We walk into a room full of framed azulejos. Then we enter the heart of the building – the performance hall. We are at Madragoa for a one-of-a-kind concert of fado and mando. Under the umbrella of CIPA in a many -years old Portuguese building, Madragoa is hosted. The organisers tag Madragoa as ‘The first house of Fado and Mando’. Both Fado and Mando are genres of…