Nuno Bettencourt

The sounds of construction ring out around Nuno Bettencourt. The guitar player, most notably of Extreme and Rihanna fame, is in Sete Cicades, a volcanic crater on an island in his birthplace of Azores, Portugal. Bettencourt is in the final stretch of building Atlantis Concert for Earth, a two-day event focused on conservation, which will take place on July 22ndand 23rd. The nonprofit concert features Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, Nicole Scherzinger, Mod Sun and Girlfriend, plus a virtual performance by Sting, and will be livestreamed for free on Veeps. In this stunning natural amphitheater, where there is no event infrastructure of any kind, Bettencourt is not a superstar guitar player with chart-topping hits, whose licks were recently featured on Stranger Things and...