Cape Verde News

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Sara Tavares. Sara Tavares, a Portuguese singer of Cape Verde origins, specializes in sweet melodies that express cheerfulness and gentle melancholy.

Sara Tavares has turned to music to define her own culture from a mixed Portuguese and Cape Verdean heritage.

Sara Tavares was born and raised in Lisbon to Cape Verdian parents. The young singer-songwriter juggles languages, global influences and styles to make music that places her as a potential successor to the diva of Cape Verde, Cesaria Evora.

For all the wondrous diversity Carnegie Hall has injected into its programming in recent years, the heart of its traditional mission lies in a few series of concerts each season: extended visits by the world's great orchestras.

The New Bedford School Department has launched a sister-city project with the Cape Verdean islands of Sao Filipe and Santa Cruz in a partnership that includes the Wareham and Brockton schools and Bridgewater State College.

For "gumshoe historian" Andrew Buckley and his crew of Hit and Run History, the trip to Cape Verde was supposed to be easy.

When Cape Cod native John Kendrick left Boston Sept. 30, 1787, on the first American-based voyage around the world, his crew must have felt some trepidation.

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Shipwreck artifacts that help tell their story remain boxed in storage and photos, ceramics, books and other objects have had to be turned away.

In what's being called the biggest dengue fever epidemic ever recorded in West Africa, the Red Cross reports some 13,000 suspected cases in Cape Verde.

International medical teams have landed in Cape Verde to fight a dengue fever epidemic that has killed six and is suspected to have hit 12,000 in a country of just over 400,000 inhabitants, authorities said on Monday.

FORCV.com, which covers the Cape Verdean community in Boston, reports TSA agents today blocked Cape Verdeans from boarding a plane to their homeland with large quantities of a variety of medical items to help victims of a dengue-fever epidemic there: ... TSA officials, unaware of the breakout of dengue Epidemic in Cape Verde this week, delayed the ...

Officials from the United Nations World Health Organization are at work in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago of Cape Verde to help local authorities battle the country's first reported epidemic of dengue fever.

Multiple news and international health organizations are reporting that the island nation of Cape Verde off the west coast of Africa is experiencing its first outbreak of dengue fever.

Some of my ancestors packed their luggage, while others left wearing only the clothing they owned.

Thanks to the work of the Capuchin friars and the Missionary Association AMSES , the new Saint Francis Hospital Center has become a reality, at the service of the people of Fogo and Brava .

Sara Tavares, who grew up in Portugal and is of Cape Verdean descent, performs Nov.

According to the National Police, the victim who is approximately 40 years old was dead when arrived at the emergency services at the Agostinho Neto Hospital around 06:37 AM .

SOURCE: rock paper scissors, inc. Lifting Up a Shot of Pure Grain Cesaria: The Music of Cape Verde's Billie Holiday Goes to Cairo Cesaria Evora has overcome poverty, a revolution, and even a recent stroke to become a national treasure of Cape Verde and uphold her reputation as an increasingly adventurous icon of world music.

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