Passionate

The third night of Global Roots Festival 2011 celebrates the music of migrants and travellers.

Dikanda is a young Polish band that plays a mix of traditional East-European and gypsy music, plus their own compositions.

Aar Maanta is a charismatic Somali-born singer who has assembled a multinational band in his new home of London, and has been described by young British Somalis as "the voice of our generation." He takes traditional Somali singing and puts it into a modern, cross-cultural context.

This event is FREE! Cedar donors will have the option of early admission (6.45pm). Partially seated show.

The honeyed tones and sensitive interpretations of Antonio Zambujo have propelled him into the vanguard of modern fadistas, and marking him as a unique voice on Lisbon's fado scene. Antonio initially studied clarinet and classical guitar, but grew up steeped in the music of his homeland region, cante alentejano, a male choir chant from the South of Portugal which is infused with influences from neighboring North Africa. These formative influences blend with his passion for jazz and Brazilian music to create an artist who is expanding the horizons of traditional fado while remaining committed to exploring its roots.

Ticket options and info

The Cedar welcomes back iconic Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and activist Bruce Cockburn, performing tonight with a band, and showcasing songs from his new studio album, his first in six years (to be released March 1, 2011 on True North).

SOLD OUT

Maita can set a love song to a martial arts rhythm; evoke harsh realities of ghetto life with gentleness and dry-eyed humanity; and most of all, use her fluid versatile voice and a rich musical heritage — from samba to jazz and pop — to make it all feel like one coherent whole. Lero-Lero is a discovery, but if Maita keeps making records this good, she could well be on her way to international stardom. (Banning Eyre, NPR's All Things Considered)

The Minnesota debut of sultry Brazilian pop singer Luísa Maita! Hailing from a country overflowing with musical talent, Luísa Maita rises above the fray as one of the most promising young singers of her generation.

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 few muttered words in Arabic, shrouded in echo. And then it erupts. A day-glo cloudburst of warpspeed Bontempi rhythms and snaking microtonal melodies. Psychedelic invocation to some lascivious simultaneist idol. Urgent glossolalia of electronic thunder and lightning. Amphetamine-powered merengué of dysmorphic frequencies. Notes from between the notes. Beats like the jerry-rigged machine gun fire of exurban guerrila fighters. Cosmopolitan party music from the end times. The death rattle of globalisation, echoing across the scarred plains of bomb-ravaged dreamscapes." (The Quietus)

Syrian mega-pop star and wedding singer Omar Souleyman brings his frenetic dance music to The Cedar!

Tickets go on sale at noon Fri Aug 27 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.

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.

Full of soulful urgency and longing, of lost sailors, cruel pirates and creeping inevitabilities, the new solo album Old Devils by Jon Langford and Skull Orchard travels o'er the seas and malls, from the pubs of Wales to the swamps of the settled life, steeped in the haunted, never-ending search for place. Old Devils sits on the tuff wharves of the world and swaps stories and worries, the lies told much better than the truths, conjuring the ghosts of mates-in-spiritual-arms from Dylan Thomas to Johnny Cash

The Cedar welcomes back the one and only Bard of Barking, Billy Bragg. With rising unemployment and a messy election result back home, songwriting credits for a new play Pressure Drop, and another year of activism under his belt, Billy is sure to have a bit to say alongside the raft of songs drawn from 1984's Life's a Riot with Spy Vs. Spy, through the Mermaid Avenue years, to 2008's Mr Love and Justice. His last show at The Cedar sold out; advance ticket purchase for this one is highly recommended.

Tickets go on sale at noon Fri May 21 from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), from a hard-working Cedar volunteer 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.

 Read more »