The festival, an initiative of the Fado Museum with artistic direction by guitarist Pedro de Castro, will be held on three stages: the Capitólio and Variedades theaters, and the São Jorge Cinema.

The opening concert in homage to Armandinho, at the São Jorge Cinema, will also highlight the guitarist and composer António Chainho, who died on Tuesday. Chainho participated in the festival last year, having a conversation with journalist Moema Silva, author of "O Abraço e a Guitarra" (The Embrace and the Guitar), a work that addresses 60 years of the author’s career.

The Portuguese Guitar Festival "establishes itself as a space for celebration, discovery, and reinvention of one of the most unique instruments in Portuguese musical culture," proposing "a plural and contemporary listening experience of the Portuguese guitar, crossing tradition, current creation, and new generations of performers," according to a statement from the organisation.

The lineup includes Custódio Castelo, Hugo Vasco Reis, Luís and David Ribeiro, Mafalda Lemos, pianist Mário Laginha with guitarist Miguel Amaral, Mike 11, Pedro Jóia, and Ricardo Parreira, among others.

This edition's honoree, Armandinho, is considered "a major figure in the Portuguese guitar".

Armandinho was a student of the guitarist Luís Petrolino, a prominent musician of the time, and is the author of guitar variations and fados that are still performed today, such as "Fado Armandinho", "Fado de S.

Miguel", "Fado do Cívico", "Fado do Bacalhau", "Fado Mayer", "Fado do Ciúme", "Fado Estoril", "Variações em Ré Menor", "Variações em Ré Maior", "Ciganita", "Fado Fontalva", "Fado Conde da Anadia", among others.

Each concert in the festival integrates curatorial artistic cycles that "function as keys to interpretation, allowing the public a more conscious and contextualised experience".

The festival is an executive production of the agency Ghude-Gestão De Carreiras e Conceção de Eventos. Tickets, on sale today, are available in three options: single-concert, one-day, and two-day passes. The passes grant access to all concerts.

Last year, the festival attracted nearly 3,000 spectators, according to the organisers.