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Cesaria Evora / Madeleine Peyroux

Carnegie Hall

Fri 10/3

Tickets

All Ages

Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm

$35 - $85
(price by section)

Cesaria Evora

http://www.myspace.com/cesariaevora
http://www.cesaria-evora.com
Twenty years ago, while in her early forties, Cape Verdean vocalist Cesaria Evora returned to the stage after a performing hiatus of nearly two decades, during which time she raised her family. Within a few years, in 1988, she was lured from her Portuguese/Creole-speaking island home off the western coast of Africa to Paris to record her breakthrough album. La Diva aux pieds nus (translated as The Barefoot Diva, due to her penchant for performing barefooted) proved to be a revelation to listeners. Soon she captivated audiences first in France, then throughout the rest of Europe.

Ten years ago, Evora was finally introduced to the U.S., enthralling American listeners with her honey-toned and soft-burred voice. Today, as a Grammy award winner and one of the world’s most recognizable and sublime singers, her discography comprises ten studio recordings, two best-of albums and a remix collection.

Her new album, Rogamar (praise the sea, pray to the sea) - is a celebration of the sea, almost an incantation, from the opening track “Sombras di Distino” (Shadows of Destiny a morna composed by Manuel de Novas), to Teofilo Chantre’s “Vaga Lenta” (Slow Wave) which closes the album on a note of hope. For the sea haunts the collective Cape Verdean imagination. While holding the promise of a better life on distant shores, it is also merciless as it parts lovers or breaks up families. Poets sing the blue sea - Mar Azul - as seen from the Avenida Marginal along the bay of Mindelo, but seamen fear the dangerous coasts more than the high sea. Rogamar tells of the perilous crossing from São Vicente to Sant’Anton, on a typical insular Sanjon (Saint John) rhythm. Recorded in Mindelo, Paris and Rio de Janeiro, the album is produced by pianist Fernando Andrade, who has been accompanying Cesaria on stage since 1999.

Madeleine Peyroux

http://www.myspace.com/officialmadeleinepeyroux
http://www.madeleinepeyroux.com
Madeleine Peyroux doesn't simply interpret songs, she possesses them and vice versa. Peyroux is either an old soul or was "born with it" (depending on one's theory about the flashpoint of artistry); that became apparent in 1996, with the release of her debut album, Dreamland, a remarkably knowing work in which the then-22-year-old singer brought commensurate insightfulness to material associated with Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and Patsy Cline. Her decision to cover Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" reflected the decade that the Georgia-born Peyroux had spent living in Paris, from ages 13 to 22. In the ten years since then, she has brought a wealth of life experience to her natural affinities, first manifested on the long-in-coming sophomore album Careless Love and brought to fruition on Peyroux's new album Half the Perfect World.

Half the Perfect World, once again impeccably produced by Larry Klein, serves as both complement and counterpoint to its predecessor, 2004's Careless Love, which drew raves across the board and sold more than a million copies worldwide. "This record is different from Careless Love in the sense that there's a unison of joy on it," Peyroux says of the new album. "It's pushing certain boundaries for me."

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