Name: The Cesária Évora Orchestra
Start: 2025-02-19T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Wilbur

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The Cesária Évora Orchestra brings together the finest singers and musicians from Cape Verde to celebrate the music of the Barefoot Diva. Elida Almeida, Ceuzany, Lucibela, Teófilo Chantre, and former members of Cesária Évora’s band will be in Greater Boston to pay tribute to this magnificent repertoire.
Cesária Évora is undoubtedly Cape Verde’s most famous singer. With her uniquely melancholic tone and inimitable style, she captured millions of hearts and mesmerized audiences worldwide. Greater Boston is no exception, where she enchanted audiences on several memorable visits to the area. With her voice and her barefoot authenticity on stage, each visit strengthened a special bond with the city’s music lovers and the global community.
In 2014, three years after her passing, her former musicians and prominent voices of today united to tour and honor the Barefoot Diva’s incredible repertoire and the unique style of Cape Verdean music.
This evening promises not only an unforgettable homage to the great Cesária Évora, but a celebration of Cape Verdean culture—like a wisp of warm tropical breeze.
BIO:
When Grammy Award-winning Cesária Évora suddenly passed away on December 17, 2011, there was an overwhelming outpouring of emotion from her fans. In 2012, thousands gathered to pay their respects to the great artist at a series of memorable concerts, especially in Toulouse, Lisbon, Amsterdam, and Paris.
Some of the greatest singers in world music joined the musicians who had regularly accompanied Cesária, lending their voices to this ultimate tribute to the woman known as The Barefoot Diva. Bonga, Angélique Kidjo, Lura, Ismaël Lô, Mayra Andrade, Bernard Lavilliers, and Tito Paris, to name just a few, were part of these emotional performances.
Once the musical events ended, Cesária’s musicians were more determined than ever to keep her incredible repertoire alive, which had enchanted audiences worldwide.
A few of them formed the Cesária Évora Orchestra, which held its first concert at the 2014 Gamboa Festival in Praia (Cabo Verde) as a tribute to the iconic singer and her tremendous achievements, particularly as the international ambassador of Cape Verdean music.
Since then, the Cesária Évora Orchestra has toured regularly around the world to celebrate the Barefoot Diva.