AfrissippiTHE CEDAR REGRETS TO ADVISE THAT DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, AFRISSIPPI HAVE CANCELLED THEIR FALL TOUR. TICKET-HOLDERS ARE REFERRED TO THE CEDAR REFUND POLICY.

... what might have happened if Ali Farka Toure recorded for Fat Possum.  (Ian Anderson,Editor, fRoots)

West African roots meets North Mississippi trance blues!

"Guelel Kumba lives on a tall hill in Oxford, Mississippi, and comes from the Fulani people of West Africa, the largest nomadic group in the world.  His first instrument as a child was the molo, a single gut string attached to a small gourd.  Eric Deaton accepted boogie music as his savior at age 14 and cut his teeth playing with Junior Kimbrough & R.L. Burnside every Sunday night at Junior's Place.  Kinney Kimbrough played drums with his father, Junior, in & around Chulahoma, Mississippi his entire life.  His beats hold the secrets of the backwoods disco groove."  (liner notes of Afrissippi's new CD Alliance (2008, Hill Country Records)

“Kumba’s vocals mix seamlessly with the deep-fried guitar of Mathus and the gritty beats of Kimbrough and Burnside, recalling all at once Miles Davis’ Live Evil psychedelia, old and new country, ancient African history, and downhome rock n’ roll ... Afrissippi represents a new high-water mark in the cultivation of the connections between American blues and its African relations.”
~ Corey Harris (Living Blues) 

Merging the music of West Africa with Mississippi roots music, Afrissippi creates songs that feel perfect in their execution and temperament... (Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle June 1 2008)

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Tickets on sale 2pm Fri Aug 8 from Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb.
$15 advance, $18 day of show