Duo

An Italian guitarist in love with American music combines talents with a Ukrainian American mandolin and violin virtuoso for a magical evening of cross-pollinated roots, jazz, and folk. Beppe and Peter are old friends who love playing together and cooking up new arrangements of their rich body of musical works, with deeply satisfying results.

The Cedar is now fully air-conditioned for your year-round comfort!

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Warming up your May weekend, quirky experimental indie rock from The Fiery Furnaces, touring as a duo.

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• On sale date: noon Fri Mar 11
• Phone: 612-338-2674 ext 2 ($1 fee per ticket)
• In person: From a Cedar volunteer in the front lobby before and after shows (no fee), Depth of Field (no fee), or Electric Fetus (small fee)
• Online: Ticketweb (fees apply) (click on red Buy Tickets button at top of this page)
• All Cedar shows are all ages.
• Students with ID may gain discounted admission for tickets at the door.

San Francisco's indie pop duo The Dodos touring in support of their new release No Color (15 March, Frenchkiss Records), which features guest vocals by Neko Case.

 And from Philadelphia, another duo, Reading Rainbow, will open.

Tickets go on sale at 11am Fri Jan 21 from from First Avenue and their outlets, and online at TICKETMASTER.

All Cedar shows are all ages.

Singer/pianist Vienna Teng and percussionist Alex Wong have crafted a sound that the Associated Press calls “ambitious yet always tuneful…gorgeous and haunting.”  Each has garnered attention in their own right: Vienna has appeared on Letterman, NPR and the CBS Early Show, and toured with artists such as Shawn Colvin, India.Arie, Duncan Sheik and the Indigo Girls.  Alex has produced records for celebrated singer/songwriters Ari Hest and Amber Rubarth, as well as his own project The Paper Raincoat (recently a featured artist on iTunes), and won Best Original Score in the L.A. Weekly Theater Awards for his work on Everyman For Himself. Read more »

In the tradition of the great male/female singer/songwriter duos (Nancy and Lee, Sonny and Cher, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris), Isobel Campbell (cellist and vocalist for Scottish indie band Belle and Sebastian) teams up with gravelly-voiced Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) to release their third album together, Hawk (Vanguard, August 24 2010). Produced by the singer herself in a series of locations around the world, the set finds Campbell continuing her investigation into the darker corners of American roots music. Lanegan lends his signature blues-folk growl to eight of the album’s 13 tracks, while the young U.S. singer Willy Mason shows up for a pair of tunes, including a stripped-down rendition of “No Place to Fall” by the late Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Campbell and Lanegan duet on another Van Zandt number, “Snake Song,” and former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha appears on the track “You Won’t Let Me Down Again.”

Two stunning multi-instrumentalists performing as a duo for a special, limited U.S. tour. Molsky is well known in the American old-time music community for his fiddling, but also sings and plays guitar and banjo. Möller is "the Quincy Jones of Swedish folk," whose multiple projects include Frifot, a duo with Scottish fiddler Aly Bain, and his own world music big band.

" … you would think they'd been playing together for centuries. While his fiddle dances, her cello throbs darkly or plucks puckishly. Then [Haas] opens her cello's throat, joining Fraser in soaring sustains, windswept refrains, and sudden, jazzy explosions. Their sound is as urbane as a Manhattan midnight, and as wild as a Clakmannan [Scotland] winter."
— Boston Globe Read more »