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 > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/d8aea5dc-5ae2-4078-96fd-e258e8d6a46b%40googlegroups.com.
