Joan M. Neves
BiographyJoan Neves has served as an educator in the Bridgeport school district and Norwalk Community College, and is an experienced videographer. She participated in the 1995 Cape Verdean Connections Program at the Smithsonian Festival. Her planning role has focused on developing programming based on the large body of material relating to Cape Verdean community traditions and events which she has documented on video. She prepared the weekly Cape Verdean program TV Sodadi Cabo Verde broadcast on the public access television channel CTV-Cable 34 in New Haven, Connecticut. Joan is the daughter of violinist Julio Neves (Chou) who played in many bands.
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Cape Verdean, 1924 - 2005
