Orchestra de Notias

Group (1920s – 1930s)  Orchestra de Notias was one of several Cape Verdean groups that existed in the United States in the 1920s/1930s. Its leader was the violinist Cândido Almeida, “Notias”.   Between 1929 and 1935, three groups formed by Cape Verdeans made a set of forty recordings at the Columbia Read more…