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Indie folk singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov makes his first stop at The Cedar! An old soul in a young man's body, Gregory has released four critically acclaimed albums, and has earned a reputation for his quietly riveting live shows.

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

Ticket options and info

• On sale date: noon Fri Aug 19
• 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.

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In the fall of a busy year that has seen Chicago-based singer-songwriter Joe Pug play some of the world's most renowned festivals, tour the UK and Ireland, and reach a whole new audience by opening for The Swell Season tour, we are only too pleased that Joe can make a return stop at The Cedar for this intimate show with his band.

Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), from hard-working Cedar volunteers in the front lobby during shows, from Cedar outlets (Electric Fetus, Irish on Grand, Homestead Pickin' Parlor, and Depth of Field), and online at Ticketweb.

A smash triple bill, with Portland-based indie folk singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, the Watson Twins, and Led to Sea, fronted by violist L. Alex Guy (who also plays with Laura in her band, as well as with Mirah and the Jason Webley Trio). Since Laura's last appearance at The Cedar in early March 2010, she has become the proud mother of one Tennessee Veirs Martine.

Tickets go on sale at 11am Wed Jun 9 from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), from hard-working Cedar volunteers in the front lobby during shows, and online at TICKETMASTER.

Join the party as Jeremy Messersmith celebrates the release of his third album The Reluctant Graveyard (out May 4), a bookend for his trilogy of lifelong observations that began with The Alcatraz Kid and The Silver City. Songs like “Lazy Bones” and “Organ Donor”  sonically continue on the’60 chamber pop path Messersmith set out with his sophomore release. He continues to share stages with notables such as Sondre Lechre and The Watson Twins, and has been featured on MTV and Ugly Betty. And while this collection of songs comes to an end, it’s no doubt that the stories will live on.

Taking place under bowed branches and deep within winding corn mazes, The Handsome Family's latest release Honey Moon is full of an awed sense of emotion in the face of nature's mysteries, Brett Sparks (music) and Rennie Sparks (lyrics) branched from their usual canon of the dark and mysterious on "Honey Moon", to establish a theme rooted in the tradition of 19th-century romanticism. It is an album of transcendence, of touching the divine, if only for a moment, through our love of someone else, even if he is a katydid.

Prominent singer-songwriter Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in the wave of urban, literate folk/pop singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston folk scene in the 1990's. Since those early days, he has built up a fiercely loyal fan base, to whom he turned when he needed to record his sixteenth album The Day After Everything Changed. As an independent artist with his own label Black Wolf Records, Ellis raised over $100k from his fans in the middle of a deep recession. Read more »