Amigos de Música

Dear Amigos, Summer has arrived in the Algarve too and I am happy to forward to you the AMIGOS da Música NEWSFLASH and INVITATION with interesting information on the new Concert Season, the Amigos Annual General Meeting and a Special Summer Invitation. I wish you a pleasant and relaxed summer and look forward to seeing […]

Dear Amigos, The 2017/18 concert season is going out with a surprise and it looks like a good one. On the weekend bad news came in about our June artist, the Hungarian pianist Istvan Lajko, who broke a leg and upon medical advice cannot play for several weeks. We wish him a speedy recovery. Fortunately […]

      To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton                             NEWSLETTER —–Dia de Liberdade—- 25 April 2018 Dear Amigos,   Big holiday today in Portugal ! The people of this country (ours now, too) had been waiting for a long time to be liberated from dictatorship and the horrors of African wars, and on the 25th […]

27 Years of Great Music   To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton   Easter 2018 Dear Amigos,   I really hope and wish that you were among the lucky ones in Os Agostos last week when the great Piers Lane played for us. How privileged we are to have him come to the Algarve again […]

27 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER March 3, 2018 Dear Amigos,   Spring greetings ! Indeed, and we got what we all have been crying for: RAIN, please! The calendar declared this the beginning of Spring and Nature provides the necessary wet for the revival of meadow green and […]

26 Years of Great Music From Helga Hampton 30 January 2018   Dear Amigos, You were greeted and welcomed into the New Year by me with a NEWS FLASH highlighting the International Music Festival in Marvão (FIMM), and let me urge you herewith again to make your reservations there as soon as possible. Go online […]

 11 January 2018 To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWS FLASH   Dear Amigos,   Welcome in the New Year !  I hope and wish that your Christmas was a good one and that you and your family were able to celebrate the festive season with a lot of music.   This is a NEWS […]

26 Years of Great Music     To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER                        December 1, 2017 Dear Amigos, Still in the spell of the magic and great success of our November concerts, I thank you all for coming so numerously and for bringing friends and for obviously spreading the good word. Word of […]

To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER                        November 8, 2017 Dear Amigos, It has come to my ears that my Newsletters are too long ! So, here the new format – concise, short and informative:   November concerts are taking place on Tuesday, November 21st and Thursday, November 23rd at the usual time of […]

26 Years of Great Music     To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton                 NEWSLETTER                        October 1, 2017   Dear Amigos,   We started our 2017/18 season with a bang! Who would have ever thought that the unusual pairing of a flute and a guitar could inspire so much passion and delight as […]