Affectionately nicknamed as “Tremor’s Ivete Sangalo”, Rui Rofino and Clemente Matos Almeida (WE SEA) are the constant postcard that proves that Azorean music continues to grow in the islands. A tour that includes a Coliseum (2022), a bandstand (2018), a Casa de Bacalhau (2017), a residency with their current label partner, Pedro Lucas (2019), and even a concert in their past lives, under the form of Broad Beans (2015), turn out to prove whether the house’s saints can perform miracles or not:

«The residency with Pedro Lucas in 2019 was in itself a sequence of terrible bad luck. First, we were going to play at Parque Terra Nostra, but the weather turned into one of those Azorean deluges, so they had to cancel the concert there and move everything to Casino das Furnas. Of course, less than an hour after they canceled and relocated the concert, the weather turned beautiful. Meanwhile in the Casino, already packed with people, the concert starts but, right after the second song, there was a blackout at that lasted a good 30 to 45 minutes. In the previous year, in 2018, the concert also tiptoed the edge peculiar. It was the first time that WE SEA played in their hometown, Ribeira Grande, and we were set to play at the bandstand in the city centre. There was no greater honor than to go out and play in Ribeira Grande. But with this also comes the “best part”, which was having to deal with a rather drunk gentleman, “hackling” us throughout the concert, as he alternated between asking to sing the songs and doing playback during “Ser de Ver”. This is WE SEA’s troubled history at the festival.»