VENUE TEATRO-CINE, PORTUGAL
DATE 03/05/2024-05/05/2024
Nestling in the mountainous Centro region of Portugal, the beautiful town of Gouveia has hosted Gouveia Art Rock since 2003. Although the event has been dark for the last couple of years, there’s a celebratory atmosphere here today in the elegant Art Deco cinema that houses the festival as the capacity crowd immerse themselves in an eclectic array of international performers spread over three days.
The extent of its broad reach is immediately apparent as The Hedvig Mollestad Trio and Gryphon share the opening evening. Despite their wildly differing musical flavourings, this unlikely combination provide a rich and tasty feast. Mollestad’s band hurtle through a cerebral combination of harmony and freewheeling solos encased in a skull-crushing heavy rock vocabulary, sounding at times like a head-on collision…
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