Currently on tour in North America, the Cesaria Evora Orchestra will kick off its French tour with a concert at La Marbrerie (Montreuil) on June 06, 2025. The current line-up features the very best of today’s Cape Verdean scene: Ceuzany, Elida Almeida, Lucibela and Teofilo Chantre.
Here are all the upcoming tour dates:
- 06/06/2025: Musiques Métisses festival, Angoulême (16)
- 12/05/2025: Africolor festival, Théâtre Sarah Bernard, Goussainville (95)
- 12/06/2025: Africolor festival, Théâtre des Bergeries, Noisy-le-Sec (93)
- 12/13/2025: Salle Jacques Brel, Fontenay-sous-Bois (94)
- 03/18/2026: Le Colisée, Lens (62)
- 03/19/2026: Rocher de Palmer, Cenon (33)
- 03/20/2026: Détours de Babel festival, L’Heure Bleue, Saint-Martin d’Hères (38)
- 03/21/2026: L’Arsenal, Metz (57)
Cesaria Evora‘s sudden death on December 17, 2011 was a source of great emotion for her fans, who gathered in thousands in 2012 to honor her memory at memorable concerts in Toulouse, Lisbon, Amsterdam and Paris.
Around the musicians who usually accompanied the singer, the greatest voices of world music came to pay a final tribute to the one nicknamed La Diva aux pieds nus (The Barefoot Diva) – among them Bonga, Angélique Kidjo, Lura, Ismaël Lô, Mayra Andrade, Bernard Lavilliers and Tito Paris, to name but a few.
After these great masses, the musicians had only one desire: to keep Cesaria’s repertoire alive, which had enchanted audiences on stages all over the world. That’s how they came together under the name Cesaria Evora Orchestra for their first concert, in 2014 at the Kriol Jazz Festival in Praia (Cape Verde), in tribute to the world music icon and her work, notably as an Ambassador of Cape Verdean music.
Since then, the Cesaria Evora Orchestra has performed regularly around the world to celebrate Cesaria Evora.
