Porto’s Unique Music Venue and Hotel Celebrates Global Music
Recently celebrating its one year anniversary, M.Ou.Co. has hosted musicians from around the world for memorable concerts
Music is at the heart of everything at M.Ou.Co. This unique destination in the city’s Bonfim neighbourhood combines a 62-bedroom hotel, a 50-seater restaurant, a bar, a garden with alfresco dining, an outdoor swimming pool, a music library, musical instruments for hire and a concert hall with a capacity of 180 seated and 300 standing guests. The venue has hosted artists from around the world over the past year celebrating music in a new destination in the heart of Portugal’s second city.
Artists from Angola, Brazil, France, Portugal, Spain, the UK and the USA among others have performed at M.Ou.Co. These have included:
- Bala Desejo from Brazil who recently won a Latin Grammy Award
- Danielle Ponder from the the USA
- Letrux from Brazil
- Raúl Midón from the USA
- The Slow Readers Club from the UK
- Pongo from Angola
- Pale Blue Eyes from the UK
- D’Alva from Portugal
- Zola Blood from the UK
- Fado Bicha from Portugal
- Panda Bear & Sonic Boom from the USA
- Jota.Pê from Brazil
- Pietá from Brazil
- Blood Red Shoes from the UK
- Kae Tempest from the UK
- Nation of Language from the USA
- CLÃ from Portugal
June and July 2023 include performances by Rico Dalasam (18 June), The Veils (25 June) and Maria Luiza Jobim (22 July).
Autumn 2023 will also be a special time for the space which celebrates its second anniversary.
In 2022, British band james performed in Porto and decided to hold an intimate pre show rehearsal evening at M.Ou.Co.
M.Ou.Co. is a musicians paradise offering a brand new music environment including three rehearsal rooms with musical instruments and technical equipment. Furthermore and somewhat unique, M.Ou.Co. also employs a physiotherapist specialising in Ergonomics exclusively at the venue just for musicians. Flora Vezzá has dedicated herself to musician health for over a decade, both treating injuries and preventing problems from arising. A dedicated space within M.Ou.Co. the ‘Instrument Clinic’ has been created where Flora analyses and treats physical health, musical performance due to this physical health issue, explores possible trauma and creates a programme for continuous performance improvement.
M.Ou.Co.’s venue is home to a concert hall, rehearsal rooms with musical instruments and technical equipment, changing rooms, a cloak room, a bar and outdoor area all accessible on level -1 of this new space and all brand new. M.Ou.Co. work with local teams of professionals for all manner of production, editing and event hosting.
M.Ou.Co. is also home to a Music Library which is all about musical pleasure and that sensation and excitement of adding a vinyl to the turntable, available for all guests in all bedrooms. Here, hotel guests will encounter a collection of over 600 records. The catalogue has been curated by a number of artists with links to music and the city. M.Ou.Co. also work with Porto’s record shops to keep the collection busy with classics, discoveries and latest popular releases. The Music Library also features a wide selection of specialist music books celebrating music, songwriters, composers and performers.
Sofia Miró one of M.Ou.Co.’s founder’s and Cultural Director looks back over a busy 2022 and 2023 so far with immense satisfaction knowing that together with her team, she has attracted huge talent to this new venue. Her early objective along with all her colleagues, was to create a space open to all and accessible in every way to both the local community and visitors. Tickets are priced from €20.
A former warehouse, M.Ou.Co. is today a contemporary space in Bonfim with many genuine vintage pieces of furniture. Following a meticulous redevelopment and investment of over €8 million, the entire area of 5,000 square metres of building has been transformed into a welcoming, modern space, filled with light. The building features natural materials throughout and no paint has been used anywhere.
M.Ou.Co. has reshaped a neighbourhood and is adding a new rhythm to Portugal’s second largest city, Porto.
Stay. Listen. Play. at Porto’s newest hotel and discover a different rhythm this spring and summer in Portugal’s northern city.
moucohotel.pt / instagram.com/m.ou.co M.Ou.Co. : M=música; Ou=outras; Co=coisas (Music and Other things…)
B&B is priced from 90€ per room per night
M. Ou. Co – Rua de Frei Heitor Pinto, 67, 4300-081, Porto, Portugal.
Less than five minutes walk to Heroísmo metro station or Campanhã train station. Porto is served by airlines including TAP Air Portugal, BA, easyJet and Ryanair.
