Project Salt - 2005 trip to Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)

Project Salt is a non-profit based in Seattle that is working to preserve the rich musical traditions of Cabo Verde. In 2005, project founder, Johnny Fernandes took Seattle-band Quasi Nada to the islands to deliver musical instruments and to perform at a music festival in Santa Maria, Sal. He was joined by journalist Gerry Hadden, photographer Shannon Welles, and cinematographer Chandler Griffin who graciously put together this film.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Music
• Non-profit
• Africa
• Cabo
• Verde
• Cape
• Cesaria
• Seattle

[djperfect]

Boàs musica Dè Cabo verdè nos terra Sabì greetz From holland Rotterdam

Elton Do Rosario

[Lobao5]

Seus Macumbeiros Ahauhauahuahua

[DomAleixo]

Just would like to ask if you have any passage with musicians playing the ''viola de dez cordas''. It´s a wonderful instrument brought by the portuguese to Cape Verde and also widely used in the music of Brazil and Sri Lanka.

Thank you

Emerson

[trina623]

bom trabadjo, kes imagem sta bonito!!!

[JRODRIGUES]

I am so happy to see such appreciation and respect shown for the music of my country, twenty years ago, this type of music was played only at home, funerals, family parties, processions or festivals in the praca in Cape Verde. This music is differing in Cape Verde. In America Cape Verdean americans have been producing this music for centuries. Cape Verdeans beiing the first portuguese speaking community in America, in New England as early as the 1700s, they came as whalers, fishermen etc

[Amedeo374]

Great work, with a sensative approach to the subject, beautifully shot and editted.

-- thanks for sharing

[achova]

Thank you Johnny and Project Salt for sharing video from your inspirational project.