Carlos Guerreiro

(voice, sanfona, panflutes, tubaros de Orfeu, búzio, percussion). Carlos teaches Musical Expression at the Centre of Cerebral Paralysis at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Carlos has been developing work, in collecting traditional music throughout Portugal.

After establishing contact with popular constructors and museums, He started himself the construction of various traditional musical instruments. He is the mentor of most of the original intruments used by Gaiteiros.

Since 1975, Carlos has participated as a musician, in concerts, recordings, radio and TV programs with José Mário Branco, Zeca Afonso, Júlio Pereira, Pedro Caldeira Cabral, Fausto, Luis Cília, Sérgio Godinho, La Batalla, 7ª Legião, Vitorino and Rui Veloso.
He is , also, the author of several musical compositions for theatrical plays, TV series, cinema and publicity, in Portugal. Ex-member of GAC (Grupo de Acção Cultural - Vozes na Luta).

José Manuel David

José is one of the main composers of Gaiteiros de Lisboa. He is a Teacher of Musical Education in Basic School in 1975, founded the group Almanaque which he directed for several years and with whom recorded two records: «Descantes e Cantaréus» and «Sementes».

Worked with the same group in the collection of traditional music, in various regions in the country.
Made several compositions for publicity and arrangements for infantile music.

Paulo Marinho

Paulo was born in Lisbon Portugal. He began learning the Galician Bagpipes (gaita galega) in 1982.

He has been a “man for all seasons” in relation to the bagpipes as performer, teacher, researcher promoter and craftsman of bagpipes and reeds and some other wind instruments.

Paulo has set himself to learning some kinds of bagpipes: The Gaita Transmontana (from Trás-os-Montes in Portugal), The Gaita galega (From Galicia in the northwest of Iberic Peninsula), The Swayne bagpipes (from the border between England and Scotland), the irish uilleann pipe, the biniou (from Brittany in the Northwest of France) and the Swedish sackpipa. He also plays flutes, percussion and the Catalan tarota (a double reed wind instrument).

Paulo is also currently member of the group “Sétima Legião”. He accompanies the singer “Claud”
He was one of the founders and directors of the APEDGF (the Portuguese Association for the study and Promotion of the gaita de foles).

Paulo participated in public performances and recording of various groups and performers including Amélia Muge, Rodrigo Leão, José Mário Branco, Né Ladeiras, “Golpe de Estado”, “Francis”, António Manuel Ribeiro, “Almanaque”, "Navegante”, “Bailia” and “Gaitafolia”.

He rehearses the musical part of the traditional Galician folk group, the “Anaquiños da Terra” of the Xuventude da Galiza where he also teaches the gaita. He also teaches gaita in the Casa Pia de Lisboa.

Paulo works with Institutions of social interaction as an musical animator : the “Grupo de Acção Comunitária” and the “Casal Popular da Damaia”.

www.myspace.com/paulotmarinho

Rui Vaz

(voice, bagpipe, ocarina, panflutes, percussion) Since 1976 Rui has been involved in the studies, practice and development of Canto Alentejano and bagpipe. Before that, He participated in amateur choirs and had some experiences in Jazz and Blues. Rui took part of several collections of traditional music , especially in Trás-os-Montes and Alentejo. He was a member of the percussion group O Ó Que Som Tem? From 1979 to 1991, directed the female group of traditional music "Cramol" . As a solo artist he was a guest for shows and recordings by Zeca Afonso, Fausto, José Mário Branco, Janita Salomé, Júlio Pereira, among others. Ex-member of GAC (Grupo de Acçãoo Cultural - Vozes na Luta).

Pedro Casaes

(voice,percussion) Pedro Casaes studied double bass at the Academia dos Amadores de Música (Lisbon) for 6 years. Later on joined the Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil; Coro da Juventude Musical Portuguesa, (1968 /1973), and the GAC ( Cultural Action Group - Grupo de Acção Cultural), between 1976 and 1978.. He´s always been involved in music by participating in cinema´s soundtracks and theatre plays besides playing along with portuguese traditional artists and projects such as Zeca Afonso, Fausto, Luís Cília, Maio Moço e Rosa dos Ventos.

Pedro Calado

(Percussion,flautes,Tubarões)In 1996 Pedro Calado signed up with the Tocá Rufar project and started what later came to be the Tocá Rufar Percussion Orquestra.

For the past 10 years is has been playing and teaching Portuguese popular drums all around the world under the guidance of Toca.
Student of percussion, chorus singing, tapdancing, guitar and ethnomusicology, he currently works with children in Setubal and Évora teaching music.

Join the Gaiteiros in the beginning of 2004 replacing the “Mayumana” Paulo Piteira Charneca.