Kavita Shah: Cape Verdean Blues
For the past seven years, award-winning jazz vocalist-composer Kavita Shah has been busy on the Atlantic island of São Vicente, immersing in the traditional mornas and coladeiras of her idol and global music legend Cesária Évora. The result is "Cape Verdean Blues" (2023, Folkalist Records)—a carefully curated love letter to Évora's breathtaking archipelago. Shah, herself a daughter of diaspora who resonated with the music’s language of longing, teamed up with Évora’s longtime bandmates–including the master acoustic guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Bau (Évora's longtime musical director)–to create her most personal work to date: this is music that makes you want to dance and cry at the same time.
“Gorgeous.” - The Guardian
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“Quietly riveting.” - The New York Times
​"What she's doing is something completely new.” - NPR
Photo Credit: Joe Wuerfel
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Pricing
$30 ($25 ticket + $5 fee) / $30 at the door
Doors Open
9PM
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