Book tickets at the best rates!

Baía das Gatas Music Festival
São Vicente Island and surrounding
Festivals,  Islands
Festivals, 
Islands

Pacha, Space, and Amnesia... These words are not just a bunch of letters. They have long been familiar to all the fans of dancing and quality music. But no matter how good it is in the famous clubs of Ibiza or at the annual Coachella Festival, sometimes, we all want to dance and listen to new rousing music in a new place. We can go to a carnival or look for a new club. But only sophisticated travelers would dream of dancing to the rhythms of African djembe drums in Shark Bay. Right after such dances at the international festival of one of the Cape Verde Islands, you feel like a true music fan, who is ready to go to the ends of the earth following the sounds of music.

The Baía das Gatas Shark Bay on the island of São Vicente was named after a small local shark, which residents of a nearby village called the cat for its velvety gray skin. This specie of sharks is considered safe, but it is strictly prohibited to catch it. Thousands of music fans come to this bay every year because of the Baía das Gatas Music Festival.

For the first time, the festival in this picturesque place was held in 1984. It looked like a meeting of old friends and fans of good music, who were sitting by the ocean. Locals and tourists liked this idea so much that the festival became more popular and crowded every year, and today it is considered a world-class musical event. People set up tents on the bay and have fun for several days. Every year, such famous musicians and singers as Val and Roberto Xalino take part in the festival. People listen to energetic African rhythms, which are replaced by romantic French melodies at dawn.

Address: Baía das Gatas

Published by

Uliana Vedenina

All content and media files are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Rating based on 0 reviews
Favoured:
0
Already
6 images
of the Baía das Gatas Music Festival
on 7toucans
See on the map

Book and buy tickets at the best rates!

Best hotels in São Vicente Island!

We use cookies to improve our website and your experience when using it. Cookies used for the essential operation of this site have already been set.To find out more about the cookies we use and how to delete them, see our privacy policy including cookie use

 I accept cookies from this site.