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Photo shows a broken link for me, so let's try it again :D
On Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 3:34:33 PM UTC-8, linda wrote:
>
> Hi Janet,
>
> I'm absolutely delighted that you found your Aunt in the link I posted!
>
> The link originally showed up in my FaceBook Feed, so I thought I'd share
> it to this google group. In the back of my mind I wondered if anyone here
> might be related to the musicians, but I never seriously thought someone
> would make such a close connection-- so glad it did!! Here's what the FB
> post looked like in my feed:
>
>
>
> Thanks Steve, for the link to the Azorean folk recordings in the
> collection! I've saved it and shared it too.
>
> I have a little time today, so I thought I'd follow up on providing a
> little more info on the folk recording collection.
>
> Background info on Sidney Robertson Cowell and her WPA music project:
> https://www.loc.gov/collections/sidney-robertson-cowell-northern-california-folk-music/articles-and-essays/the-ethnographic-experience-sidney-robertson-cowell-in-northern-california/
>
> a photo of Sidney in her project office:
> https://www.loc.gov/item/2017701346/
>
>
> Because the FaceBook post included a cropped photo, I hoped that the
> larger image might also include Janet's aunt Elsie. Unfortunately, it
> didn't, but here are photos of some of the other Portuguese participants in
> the project and their instruments:
>
> Alice Lemos Avila with Olive and Joachim Flores and Frank Cunha, group
> portrait: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017701293/
>
> Mr. Franks [Clifford Franco?], Manuel Lemos and Alberto Mendes:
> https://www.loc.gov/item/2017701166/
>
> two guitars: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017701294/
>
>
> Happy New Year everyone!
>
> :)
>
> Linda
>
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 5:44:09 PM UTC-8, Janet Carminati wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Linda posted this song over the holidays and I wanted to let this group
>> know that my Aunt Elsie (Elzira Silva) is featured in this group. I grew
>> up with my aunt (she was my favorite babysitter) and she was a wonderful
>> pianist but never mentioned these recordings! Her parents were both from
>> Faial and came to the US ending up in Oakland CA where they settled.
>>
>> Does anyone have any other information as I would like to learn more or
>> see if others are related to any of the other performers. Apparently there
>> were several other recordings as well.
>>
>> A Portuguese Christmas song, Oakland 1939:
>>
>> https://www.loc.gov/item/2017701593/?loclr=fbafc&fbclid=IwAR0B9xS2tW1pJvVfiGozh0PHPZOtWMD6VDGxbCyo6A4zKJceygz8mBuUp1E
>>
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> Janet
>>
>>
>>
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