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Partida/Regresso, Departure/Return In a song on her most recent record, Cesaria Evora, the barefoot diva of Cabo Verde, sings mournfully: "Plunging through the blue waves/Seeing ...

--by Robert Frazier
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NHA artist-in-residence seeks Cape Verdean ties on Nantucket Jarita Davis will host Five Corners Gam Thursday

--Hadley St John
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Davis' lines are direct and suffused with personal verve. Their imagery is often muted and earthy, like the passage above on the cranberry laborer, and though they lack flashy verbiage, they possess a compelling honesty and an emotional depth not unlike the traditional morna that Cesaria Evora introduced to a world of listeners.

--by Robert Frasier
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