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Cape Verdean Independence Day
07/02/2009 01:00 AM EDT
Make it back-to-back celebrations.
Independence Day is, of course, Saturday. But Sunday is Cape Verdean Independence Day.
A festival, sponsored by the Cape Verdean Subcommittee of the R.I. Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, is in Providence’s India Point Park from noon to dusk.
“The Cape Verdean people have a strong connection to India Point Park,” Cape Verdean Subcommittee President João Gonsalves said in a press release. “Our packet and passenger ships landed here and we lived and worked here.”
There will be music and dancing, food, arts and crafts.
The celebration, which marks the 34th anniversary of the independence of Cape Verde, is one of the opening events of the week-long SoundSession festival in Providence, which runs through July 11.
For more, visit ricapeverdeanheritage.com.
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