The lineup for the upcoming Festival Konda Lota, Tokyo's annual celebration of global roots music, is smaller than usual but no less potent for that.
Cesaria EvoraCesaria Evora, the "barefoot diva" from the island of Sao Vicente, off the coast of Senegal, is considered the foremost practitioner of the indigenous Cape Verde style known as morna, which mixes minor-key, nostalgia-driven Portuguese fado with musical forms imported from West Africa in much the same way that the island's native creole, Kriolu, mixes Portuguese and West African dialects.