Festival Ano Q 2026
DJ set 18+
Friday 25 September · until 27 Sept
Event pageRádio Quântica presents the 6th edition of its non-profit community festival Ano Q on 25 and 26 September 2026 at Galeria Zé dos Bois, two days spanning experimental kuduro, exploratory violin, jazz-dub and raw jungle.
On 25 and 26 September 2026, Rádio Quântica presents the 6th edition of its non-profit community festival, Ano Q. Over two days, in a historic Lisbon venue — Galeria Zé dos Bois — the event celebrates some of the most intriguing sonic iterations of the Portuguese scene, with emerging artists or typically marginalised communities alongside pioneering but under-represented artists. This edition proposes an unhurried sonic journey crossing distinct geographies and musical languages — from Angola to Braga, from exploratory violin to the rawest jungle — always faithful to the community spirit that has defined Rádio Quântica since its foundation. The line-up features Nazar, who brings experimentation to Angolan-rooted kuduro, crossing the rhythms of Luanda with deconstructed electronics, released by the seminal British label Hyperdub. kilombo kosmico, a project by Xullaji and Peles Negras Máscaras Negras that includes musical and spoken word repertoire from Xullaji, Prétu and others in a more experimental and expansive approach. Helena Silva presents her sonic, exploratory violin, building ambient and cinematic layers from a classical instrument. Isma(el), filmmaker, vocalist and composer of the collective The Blacker The Berry, brings afro-futurism and soul to a performance specially designed for the festival. Suzana Francês in a personal fusion of Angolan and Cape Verdean roots, in which her classical violin training reinvents itself through voice and songwriting. Má Estrela, a project joining Pedro Alves Sousa (tenor sax and electronics), Simão Simões (electronics), Bruno Silva (electronics), Gabriel Ferrandini (drums and electronics) and Bruna de Moura (cello), mixes jazz, dub and electronics in a hypnotic, ritualistic proposal. The duo LANDA brings an intense yet intimate concert, with a poetics very much their own, meeting tradition and innovation with Cape Verde and Portugal in its pulse. Anrimeal tbcp Ana Alves, originally from Porto, creates and manipulates digital folk song from her current base in south London, drawing on post-minimalist principles of texture, limitation and repetition. Vibrartes, a collective joining musical improvisation of genres as different as trap, afro, pop and alternative with live saxophone. David J Amado, a Jamaican-American multidisciplinary artist based in Lisbon and the face of the project Ballet Para Todos, brings to Ano Q a performance where dance and music cross in an open and inclusive way. Mix'Elle, coming from Braga, brings precisely engineered breaks and tense basslines, worked over decades in the booth and home studio that have made her one of the most respected drum n bass veterans. To round things off, we present a DJ set from Tendency, from Porto, known for deconstructing the classic notion of a live set, with sampling, loops and real-time effects, in a futuristic, minimal sound that always looks forward. ANO Q 2026 brings together a diverse selection of artistic projects that challenge the boundaries of the mainstream through their practice. This festival's line-up represents direct resistance to events that prioritise profit — seeking to offer an alternative to the status quo of an increasingly gentrified Lisbon, where a polished standardisation