The venue, set up in Parque da Bela Vista, opens at 4:00 pm and music will feature four stages until 2:00 am on Saturday, one more than last year's edition.

In total, there are 53 musical performances, from “established and emerging names, national, international and local community names”, that make up the lineup.

Today, in addition to Massive Attack and Sam Smith, Mulecca XIII and Ana Lua Caiano will be performing on the main stage.

The San Miguel stage will host concerts by Monobloc, Gossip, Fever Ray and Peggy Gou today. The Lisbon stage will feature Landz, Filipe Catto, Vagabon, Jalen Ngonda and Loyle Carner, and the Panorama stage will feature Yizhaq, Ketiov, Kiddy Smile and Cheriii.

The venue will reopen at 4pm on Friday and Saturday. The music will start playing an hour later and will last until 3am.

Jungle and LCD Soundsystem will headline on Friday when Vilson and Olivia Dean will also perform on the festival's main stage.

Emmy Curl, The Kills, The Postal Service + Death Cab for a Cutie and Folamour will perform on the San Miguel stage, and Unsafe Space Garden, Glockenwise, English Teacher, Nation of Language and Ezra Collective will perform on the Lisbon stage.

Also on Friday, on the Lisbon stage, Noia, Merve, CC:Disco! will perform.

On the third and final day of Kalorama, Raye and Burna Boy are the ‘big names’. In addition to these two artists, Br!sa, Cláudia Pascoal and Ana Moura will also perform on the main stage.


Fabiana Palladino, Luiza Lian, dEUS, Overmono and Soulwax will perform on the San Miguel stage. Catana, Moonchild Sanelly, Bandalos Chinos, Yard Act and Yves Tumor will perform on the Lisbon stage, and DJ Lambo, Kampire and DJ Python will perform on the Panorama Zsongo Club stage.

In addition to gaining another stage, MEO Kalorama will be taking place simultaneously in Madrid for the third edition and will adopt a ‘cashless’ system (with payments made at the venue without using cash or cards, using a wristband).

This year, Kalorama will once again have spaces in front of all stages where deaf people will be able to feel the vibration of the music. In addition, there will be translation into Portuguese Sign Language on the main stage and more platforms for people with reduced mobility.

To get to Parque da Bela Vista, the promoter Last Tour recommends using public transport.

There is a metro station, Bela Vista, near the venue. The metro usually runs until 1:00 am, but on festival days the opening hours will be extended until 3:00 am on the Red and Green lines.

The organisation has also established partnerships with CP – Comboios de Portugal, Carris (which will have two extra routes departing from the Bela Vista Metro and heading to Cais do Sodré and Oriente between 00:30 and 03:30 on the first day of the festival and between 01:00 and 02:00 on the second and third days), Fertagus, Transtejo Soflusa (which will have extra routes in the early hours of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, to Cacilhas and Barreiro), Rede Expressos and Via Verde (which will have shuttles departing from Sete Rios to the festival).

Once at the venue, festival-goers will have to exchange their three-day passes and daily tickets for wristbands, which allow entry and exit to the venue and serve as a payment method at the festival.

The organisation recommends that anyone going to Bela Vista Park wear “comfortable shoes, several layers of clothing – it’s cool at night and very hot during the day – and sunscreen”.

“Come early. We have some great concerts starting at 8pm [such as Massive Attack and Jungle]. Plan your experience, come in good spirits and enjoy yourself”, said the festival’s communications director, Andreia Criner, to Lusa during a visit to the venue on Tuesday.

More information about the 3rd edition of the festival is available online at www.meokalorama.pt.