Judith and Holofernes is a band from San Francisco who play an American variation of traditional Portuguese fado music (“fado” translates as “fate”). Like fado, Judith and Holofernes’music is sad and melancholic, evoking feelings of sorrow, futility and longing – what the Portuguese refer to as saudade. The four members of the band come from indie/punk roots and started playing fado music after a pilgrimage to Lisbon, where they were acquainted with the mixture of wine, tragedy and Catholic guilt that the time honored fadistas had perfected.

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