Quintal da Música, abbreviation: 5tal da Música is a music pub located in the downtown area of

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and is located at 70A

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and northeast is the

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office.

About the pub

The music club has traditional Capeverdean music including batuque,

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and

coladeira The ''coladeira'' (; Cape Verdean Creole: ''koladera,'' ) is a music genre from the Cape Verde islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. It is characterized by a variable tempo, a 2-beat bar, and (in its most traditional form) a harmonic structu ...

performed. Several great Capeverdan musicians has performed at the pub. Several traditional dishes are offered in the club including their style of cachupa rica. The building is of colonial neoclassical architecture, three businesses occupy a part of the attached building. The building is one story without a roof and today is colored white, it has light blue facade on its entrance. The club name is written in blue. A part of the building has a roof. On the building's south side, it features three musicians (colored in blue), the guitarist, the saxophonist and the female drummer and has names of greatest Capeverdean singers and artists along with its greats including writers including Toni Lima,

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, Janinho Évora, Bana, Biloca, Kaká Barbosa, Katchá, Nho Beta Renato Cardoso,

Orlando Pantera Orlando Monteiro Barreto (1 November 1967, in São Lourenço dos Órgãos – 1 March 2001, in Praia, Santiago), better known as Orlando Pantera was a Cape Verdean singer and composer. Three of its songs were recorded in the album ''Porton d'nôs ...

, António Travadinha,

Vadú Vadú, nickname of Osvaldo Furtado, (January 31, 1977 – January 12, 2010) was a Cape Verdean singer and musician. He defined himself as a real "Badiu" or ironically as a "civilized Black". He was a nephew of the brothers of Zezé and Zeca ...

Fernando Quejas Fernando Aguilar Quejas (April 30, 1922 in Praia, Cape Verde – October 28, 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a singer and a songwriter of Cape Verde. Biography Quejas left his home in Cape Verde for Portugal in 1947. In the 1950s, he published u ...

, Jotamont (written as Jota Monte), Monica Marta, Nacia Gomi,

Lela Violão Lela Violão, born Manuel Tomás da Cruz (January 18, 1929 – April 5, 2009) was a Cape Verdean singer and composer. Lela Violão was born on the island of São Vicente, his father was Tomás Manuel da Cruz and his mother was Isabel Ana Oliveir ...

, Mário de Melo, Mano Kolá, Tazinho, Mérida, Tchota, Cesário Soares and Abílio Almeida writers

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(who also wrote songs) and others including Abílio Duarte and Djunga.

Transit access

Nearby is a bus stop as the avenue where the pub is located are used for buses as several bus lines including:http://www.asemana.publ.cv/spip.php/mes_squelettes/img/spip.php?article94283&ak=1 *São Filipe – Plateau - Achada Santo António *Ponta d’Água - Plateau - Achada Santo António *Plateau – Airport *Achada Mato – Plateau - Meio de Achada *Palmarejo - Plateau – Achada Grande *Plateau – Port of Praia *Palmarejo – Plateau – Eugénio Lima *Terra Branca – Plateau – Pensamento

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About the pub

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