An archipelago in the middle of the atlantic cape. The 3rd residence of these cranky volcanic mountains looked out over an endless expanse of c, the in contrast to the rugged landscape. The special sound of cape for music is luxury of soulful and melancholy. The best thing is the knowing. In the 15th century, portuguese sailors discovered the uninhabited archipelago. The mostly barren volcanic islands are fringed with endless speeches, fishing, agriculture, and tourism. Are the main sources of income for the cape for dns. The deals are li shaking things up around here. Thats new to the drummer. Its only 4 weeks to carnival, a beloved cape verde and tradition. Its the most important date in the countries calendar. Nuno has 2 things to take care of before that. Building drums and finding more drummers for the carnival parade. The sports field is a wash with new talent, not just athletic, but musical to take 12 year old jobs on most of the to 1st. Yet this years, this 1st time hes never played as a carnival before. He doesnt know how to do it yet. Were doing basic training here, but im nervous. Ive got a piece pumps ready. Ive never done this before and i dont want to do anything wrong. The an independent african country cape Virgin Islands are located some 600 kilometers west of synagogue in the atlantic ocean. 9 of the islands are inhabited, there are also smaller uninhabited islands. Santa and tell is the greenest and perhaps the most beautiful of the cape Virgin Islands and serves as the islanders fruit and vegetable garden. The sugarcane flowers is here. A long side coconuts. Bananas pie, a bread, fruit, trees, and of a condos. The coffee beings grew on the mountain slopes below. The less for tile island of selby sent a is kept well stocked with fruit and vegetables. Thanks to its neighbour. Its capital, im in dello is home to the largest port in cape bird, and its a Meeting Point of a globe trotting sailors. The keep for it is not a prosperous country. It lacks industry and natural resources, but it does have a homegrown treasure, a special genre of music, known as more to the sound. Here is a young musician. Shes actually studying law, like a friend of mirrors. Yeah. But music is her passion. She takes the bus down to the beach to compose a new more, not the style, jake, melancholic, life affirming music of cape bird. Saudi a wants to keep the musical tradition of cape virtual life with her songs and earn some money in the process. Just like her role model, shes aria able to made cape birds. More noise indicate for to famous the world over a central theme is so dodgy, the pain of leaving a bird and the longing for home keep bird has long been a country of emigration. The like many here because out yet is catholic and deeply religious legacy of the islands. Portuguese colonizers, the ses, anya able to is buried in them in gallo cemetery to this day. Shes a role model for the young generation of female musicians who like saudi a hope for a better future. Many of their songs address the cape verde and dilemma to stay and suffer or leave long for home. Others are about love, poverty or more to base. The local, pre owned word for hospitality. Somebody takes inspiration from cape foods stunning natural landscapes. The newest song celebrates monte carter. The mountain with the face of famous been landmarks the the, the, the sooner she will be performing this new song. For the 1st time, the close to the beach human dello, the capital of so if you send a to c seems close enough to touch the there is an abundance of fish, and cape bird, but house is outside the capital are not connected to the water supply. System, all the water comes from a single to say of the nation plant. If youre not going to to its pipes, the canister is your only options the at the highest point of the island. Miguel antonio has been especially creative. The peas worked out how to procure the precious water he needs for irrigating his garden, on the cliff. He fishes it out of the clouds, the book. Which meant that you dont get the reset me here in this net. The washer condenses during the night is think of it in the contest. I mean the, the gwinnett gets west at night. The more you and the washer force of the bronze dive. Deeper. And then flows into the cistern. This is the sister, and where me go collect water vital both for himself and his garden every night, 50 to 60 leaders of water accumulate here. Think that this i can do that will hold 4000 liters. A a lot grows on his for child 100 square meter plot. Then we carrots, aniseed central. Now lets is rosemary and others. Is he happy with his live . Is it . Yes, very happy with the garden and the water or his livelihood along the road just above his garden. He keeps a small stand here he transforms his curves into t. N. Shops and sells them to the locals and tourist. The rest he keeps for himself. From his spectacular cliff top garden begin antonio as a magnificent view of the islands capital min dello the on the neighboring island of sun to one tow. A piece of sugarcane from the roadside is a popular snack on the way home from school. There was a school bus for the pupils who live further away. Pupils like these was a 16 year old jew 0 lives with their grandmother, uncle, and, and their children in one of the small mountain villages. Her father is not present, which isnt uncommon. In cape bird and her mother is also absent. Is that is this the, the money is tight, the legal minimum wage is about 130. 00 heroes per month to 0 must also contribute to the family income. After school. She earns extra money with donkey deliveries. Spectacular as the landscape is, its not easy to navigate. Many journeys are only possible by donkey, and many people also rely on donkeys for the crucial resource of water. Pipes are often out of service and some areas are not connected to the water supply system at all. L ton has 3 donkeys which you rinse out to school girls like ju 0 when he doesnt need them himself. He will take choose era and the donkey an hour and a half in the scorching heat, to transport this heavy canister to a house high up on the mountain. The same persons would consume port tons with their many elderly People Living in the houses here. And there isnt enough water and the pipes apply isnt reliable. So we have to load the water on to the donkeys. And we also bring them their groceries from mesa for the, for the completion to 0 will earn about 2 euros from elton for the strenuous time shes expected on the mountain top. Who doesnt have to take the water to the house up there. I always do it when i come home from school, he simpson fargo. I get some money for it. For loudy. What do you want me just see a shed. Its the, its a difficult journey with a stubborn donkey. For the place itself is special. The the unique is this, its beautiful here which causes the houses and the green after the rain. The scene go with feel is in north. You can only see it from up here. The. The bush one look was really the made it the barrios whos lives here with his family. Its 5 kilometers by foot to the nearest village. Cable goes over to the to the passport who havent moved into the dont keys vital for survival. Here. Theres a transportation for the we to have no water without the donkeys. You know, the level of loose could cut the case, but wed also be missing the other by 6 move effects and materials cement and stones, etc. But everything new who, who is in flux meant like to do a good donkey. So important look, are simply people dont go to the fruit and vegetable supplied by son to one child to the neighboring islands are also transported by donkey in the market hall that mean dello cloudy. A and a Friend Museum are shopping they want to cook. Cape birds, National Dish coupon. So you could also put in each filling in it. So we have everything for the got you. Yes. Is the current in the bag, the right one for catch you thank you. The, the traditional recipe includes both meat and fish, the, they take the bus home do we cut it into pieces or wash priced, or the main ingredients of cut coupon or corn, beans, vegetables, meat, and fish. A hearty su, simmers for hours on a medium heat. Once cooked the traditional dishes, reheated and eaten over several days cut out. He now lives in one of the most expensive neighborhoods. Viewed the beach cheese a dentist and a huge fan of carnival this year. A very special challenge lies ahead for the 1st time. Shes a carnival queen in carnival. The queens dress plays a central role. It has to be unusual, respect to traditions and have a theme for some meaningful carnival is fun. But its also culture and tradition. Im interested in social equality, having a balance between the winners and losers, best this dresses, catalinas design. It requires a lot of fabric. And much like the responsibility of being queen h waiting things. My dress has a metal base. The costume represents the balance between rich and poor. Colossal shaw this but it also has to be a big, sexy yes of course. Theres this part. Open with pearls. The more beautiful the dress, the better or has a dentist contract. Tina earns good money. The dress will cost around 300. 00 euros. Being a queen requires a lot of investment um, dina has a sewing studio and one of the poorer districts of the city. Its also cloudy as Neighborhood Farm from the beach closer to the mountains. For weeks before carnival, its all systems go here. Dina enters, seamstresses have their hands for making costumes for carnival. Dean is stressed. Most carnival costumes are fairly standard, so they dont cost much of queen stress is a big exception. And so the stress is a job for the boss. Thats dina. And this is how it should look the yeah know, put into this and that gives you the chance it can be done in time for carnival or yes, yes. Thats hard or easy. Hard does it look queenly . This is too much. Do you see . See yes. Yes. The um the the circumference of the extravagant dress is recorded on the floor. Dina isnt thrilled. Shes under a lot of time pressure. Every one is relaxed except her. Steve. Its always the same because everything comes at the last moment just before a carnival, and i only have 4 weeks. The 3 weeks later, theres not much to show yet. First they try out a model an employee who serves as a substitute queen the we will there be enough time before carnival more or less the time is running out for new though to use red suit and matching red hat still have to be made for carnival the band leaders outfit this is obvious, able to is on the present in new knows workshop. There is no money for drums or costumes. They create everything themselves, including the music. If they go full ski lift there, theyre going to, ive come up with my very own prism for the carnival dell especially. I mean doing both. Its a kind of mixture of sky reiki and galloping horses as we move up to the deep. Mm hm. The cheapest way to peace roommates jump out of here. Im up to sound. Good movie brush. Can visit me right. Right. You the right next to this is anya everett. A cemetery is guitar maker and they set those workshop more not the music of cape bird. Also serves as the collective memory of the cape verde ends, its central theme, so dowdy expresses the melancholy and yearning for home, so by those who had to leave their country due to poverty. Before the 1st performance of her new morning songs. Saudi a wants to give her old guitar and overhaul on the set to the guitar maker is not very impressed with her plastic backed instrument. You need to re okay, 30 and get. All right. We have the best ones here. Ill show you on the most pleasant and desire defense classic this winter with regards to somebody else. May i try one, a cloudy. I cant afford. Im a settled guitars, but theres no harm dreaming activity back and forth. I think the guitar she has is no longer adequate for so do you agree to one for my kind of music, one of your guitars would be great for a brief time. She gets to hold a really good instrument. It costs around 600. 00 curos far too expensive for cloudy and shell be sticking with the old guitar for now. The new places someone harder, faster with them about to cut us are the drums sections of the carnival parades. They were key part of kate, 30 and musical culture mean dello, the 2nd largest city and cape bird is the Cultural Center of the archipelago. New knows drummers are rehearsing on the soccer field as they do every evening before carnival john sons and the lineup. Some 150. 00 drummers will come together for the event. The neighbors can forget about sleep during these weeks, but most of them are taking part anyway. I the rest of the sessions for dancers every evening that is rehearsal. The noodle is you for it. We were the 1st group to start rehearsing at this point, id say, well be ready for the what looks like and i do like the beach was one so place of hard for some 3 centuries. The speech was the side of one of the Worlds Largest slave markets. The under portuguese colonial rule, thousands of africans were chained to this pillar before being sold onto the americas and the caribbean. 2 days, the dungy valia, the former capital is a World Heritage site. After centuries of portuguese colonial rule, cape bird finally became independent in 1975. The the countrys modern day capital is about 15 kilometers away. Its called prya, which means beach. Like the old capital, its located on the cape birds. Largest island, santiago, the 70 percent of cape birds population. The creole descendants of both in slave africans and the portuguese colonizers. The cape bird. Creole language developed from the communication between slaves, engines slavers, both portuguese and creole, still spoken in cape for today. Around 20 kilometers from the capitalize the tranquil town. Oh, so domingos keywords where pasquals lives. Hes the last cape verde and who can still build and play the traditional instrument of being slaved . The symbol its base is a hollow down cord. It seems swimming pool, a symbol remains eliza, symbolize the oldest string instruments and kate, but it goes back centuries and has neither european nor american origins. It has to have come from the african continent. And as mentioned in slave accounts from the time scraps close, each valve cover band, mostly the exact yeah, this happened is not with a group of slides flipped to the mountains, they would dump the bad guys above us box a me in nature. They found the materials they needed to build an instrument one by pointing the gun. Remember to live the must be the to keep them. So simple. A rep that covers created so 1st and k, the to month reports to you lesson. Boeing. Double e do, do laugh i got a is the most of the of this box, the beginnings of the 1st, specifically k for the music shown right . Cold the but to go there are still goats in the mountains today. Just like back then pot school needs their skin for the sound box. The animals can to be too young or too old. The the next part is more difficult. Course tail, hair, the bow and the strings are made from it. So, you know, i saw a ton of notes here, so you can literally send here the one for them was a female. So because of the, for of now the instruments can already be given a rough, choose one side as each loaded up. So its important to basketball, the distribution be kept to live and with a, the memory of slavery, the bank and so be sent. Its nadia is also working to keep the keep 30 and musical traditional live to her next performance date is approaching. Shes excited, but its difficult to practice when her mother wants to see her studying law. Claude, his thoughts straight from her studies to her new compositions and the performance music is a refuge. Her father left when she was very young. I mean a beat the lucas leave pass. You my life never been easy. Lose use. Explain part of my life for as long as i can remember. If i was singing along to the radio when i was to and my mother got me a guitar when i was for basketball. Sadie a couple of whatever the leaves this area, a bar i showed people Morning Music and made it big. Ella x and brought cape 3rd to the attention of the world. See me yelling . Mean, he was in the home was offering as a young woman living here today. I see that many other young people arent listening to music anymore. I think it comes with. Yeah, this be a long cutting charging the combat a model of the music starting to disappear, to cool moments you get stuck with you home is offering it will go back for my part i dentist. I was more not quite sure i cant allow us to lose our roots, dentist. Thats why i sing more and a lot of, you know, its difficult to make a living for music. Things are extremely expensive. A square the socialism is got us take the price of a loaf of bread recently and shut up from 150. 00 to 250. 00. Your school does the equivalent of around 2 euros. 50 o loaf of bread is often too expensive to buy. Hello. Do you have some cookies or conflicts . Yes, sure. Or anything else t. This is. Thank you, the saudi. I make sure to leave some cut troup of her mother to eat when she gets home late in the evening from her job. As an accountant, cloudy is mother doesnt earn much, and most of it goes towards her own. The daughters tuition fees about a 130 year olds each month. And its a constant battle with my mother. She keeps telling me musics, no good, my child. And i tell her, yes it is using as a part of me. And then shell say cloud, you go and study cape virgin, use the one, pay away ill. Do you know good of the blue scarfs there, done. Have you forgotten anything . Its already 9 15 pm. On the evening of the 1st performance with the new saw, its about to begin the the key will earn her around 30 years. But its true where is greater, the saudis, songs are helping to keep keep birdie and music alive the that song she wrote on the beach about the mountain with the face. Now its live on the concert stage. The contravene a to is preparing or rather be prepared to be queen the this years queens dress has been kept secret from the public until the last moment the, the catalina is nervous. People are already gathering outside for the carnival. Under queen stress isnt ready yet. The dean is at the end of her rope and catalina to needs all her strength right now. First to get into the dress. But how the its a bit difficult this dress difficult to get into meeting. But what dean is conjured up in the last 4 weeks is truly spectacular. The last few weeks of taking their toll on dina. 7 very, very, very tired. I havent slept for 24 hours. Ive worked non stop. No, not 2430 or so. It turned out beautifully. Her parents are here too, and theyre so proud the but the biggest challenge is yet to come. How to get up there onto the carnival float. Would that help with the construction because they head up, but its not very stable. Up she goes the, its shaky. Its to be. Will it get there . The, the queens and replace high above the people just as she should be. Down below, there is cheering, the, now we can begin carnival the highlight of the year in cape 3rd, the, the, the different part of the parade. For new know, its the combination of months of preparation. Is red hat and suit somehow got made ready just in time. The but he doesnt seem entirely satisfied. The, even the sound of his whistle can be heard and the deafening dain attention. You have to watch me the somewhere in the middle of it all is just on the soccer player. Barely recognizable under all the make up. His 1st carnival. And this is there, saw there and some 3 things you need in life, health, money and to love. The parade only lasts for one day for one glorious night. But theyve been waiting and preparing it for a full year in cape bird. Its the music that brings every one together, the co africa. How do you get young people thinking about waste and public spaces . Put it in again, taps where theyve got to go out quest to clean up the environment. You in a way that is the logical for them. Grab the young peoples attention, check by phone, environmental awareness. Check. This is the mission of green quest. In 30 minutes, on the w book, the environment trends. 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