I love Cape Verdean music, with its beautiful blend of Brazilian, Portuguese (fado) and West African styles. The infectious rhythms are light and breezy. And, like other Lusophone (Portuguese language ...

The Zeiterion Performing Arts Center’s Stage Door Live Series presents Cape Verdean ensemble, The Zerui DePina Quartet on Thursday, November 9 at 7:30pm. Originally from Cape Verde, Zerui DePina ...

In celebration of Black History and Women’s History Month, Amplify POC Cape Cod and the Cotuit Center for the Arts are hosting “Jazztastic,” two jazz shows from Tish Adams and Candida Rose and the ...

For Cape Verdean artist June Freedom, island time isn’t a state of being – it’s a way of living. His mother opened a restaurant when he was 12 where live bands performed every weekend. After he ...

The music of Cape Verde has been so dynamically defined by Cesaria Evora that it comes as an intriguing surprise to learn that there are sounds and styles that reach beyond her compelling versions of ...

Music, dancing and the aroma of local delicacies will fill Providence’s India Point Park on Sunday as the 47th annual Cape Verdean Festival kicks off. The celebration, organized by the Cape Verdean ...

NEW BEDFORD — Since Cisco Brewers Kitchen & Bar opened in May 2021, the entertainment hub has never held a major event, but that will change this week with a tribute to Cape Verdean music on June 30. ...

Miroca Paris, a singer-songwriter, who is also a multi-instrumentalist, has been nominated in the 2022 International Portuguese Music Awards, or IPMA. The tenth annual event is being held at the ...

In some ways it's a shame that fresh-faced vocalist Lura is constantly being compared to the "barefoot diva" herself, singer Cesaria Evora. Though both have that Cape Verde heritage — the initial link ...

Some songs on the album, like "Chica di Nha Maninha" for example, are mornas; distinctly Cape Verdean ballads with the melancholy of Portuguese fado and a gentle lilt more akin to Brazilian or ...

Maria de Barros came onstage like a colorful whirlwind of Cape Verdean exhilaration at the Getty Center’s Williams Auditorium on Saturday night. Engaging the full-house crowd from her very first note, ...