Music

The Cedar is pleased to announce this rescheduled performance by legendary Jamaican reggae trio The Mighty Diamonds!

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• On sale date: noon Jul 13
• Phone: 612-338-2674 ext 2 ($2 fee per ticket)
• In person: From a Cedar volunteer in the front lobby during events (no fee; cash, check, credit card), Depth of Field (no fee; cash or check only), 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, seniors and children may purchase tickets for a discount at the door.

The final night of the 2012 Global Roots Festival brings one of the hits from this year's GlobalFest in NYC: the Brooklyn-based Colombian psychedelic roots-rock band M.A.K.U. Soundsystem. They will share the evening with Rana Santacruz, also from Brooklyn, and winning audiences over with his take on mariachi music imported to the indie folk world.

Note: Terakaft, originally scheduled to perform tonight, have canceled their entire US tour, including this show.

This event is free and open to all!

Night Two will see the unique Swedish hip-hop swing proponents MOVITS! take The Cedar audience by storm, after being charged up by North African Arabic fusion proponent MC Rai.

This event is free and open to all.

The third annual Global Roots Festival kicks off with Finnish favorites JPP, celebrating their 30th year with a short U.S. tour. Opening is a new acoustic trio from Brazil who play traditional choro and other styles, Trio Brazileiro (Douglas Lora, guitar, Alexandre Lora, percussion, and Dudu Maia, mandolin).

This event is free and open to all!

Three years after WHY? turned the oft-boxed music world on its cauliflower ear with a pair of odd pop stunners—Alopecia and its quieter cousin Eskimo Snow—these meticulous and morbid Midwestern men return refreshed, a new album in the holster and an EP for your immediate enjoyment. Sod in the Seed is a scion of the WHY? To come. Sure, there's familiarity to glom to: psych-warped sunshine choruses, folksy jangle, internally knotted rhyme schemes, confessionals cut with wry wit and crude details. But these new songs also signify a general toughening up: Yoni Wolf, Josiah Wolf and Doug McDiarmid in the pocket, the unbreakable rock core at the center of a spinning ball of sound. Read more »

Dark Dark Dark celebrate the release of Who Needs Who, the follow-up to 2010's Wild Go.  Who Needs Who is a stirring and rich body of songs that sees the band breaking ground, and settling into the strengths of a quintet that has worked incredibly hard, both on the road and in their personal lives. "Many of these songs are about understanding and accepting the nuances of my emotions. The obvious parts and the dark parts. There are times when it’s important to quit fantasizing and face the truth about what is happening,” says primary writer and singer Nona. Who Needs Who is ultimately refreshing and rewarding, and marks the beginning of a bold and promising chapter for Dark Dark Dark.

Sweet harmonizing Mountain Man return after their knockout set on the Cedar patio last summer, along with one-woman orchestra Emily Wells, back at the Cedar after opening for the Portland Cello Project in April.

“…bouncing, ass-shakin’, toe-tappin’, arm-swayin’ rhythms.” - Magnet

“The music Luz Elena Mendoza makes with her bandmates in the Portland, Ore., group Y La Bamba is a perfect example of how to embrace tradition while still creating something new, exciting and thought-provoking…While its music may not sound exactly like the Mexican music of Mendoza's youth, Y La Bamba creates songs that stop me in my tracks with their breathtaking range.” - NPR

Delightfully tweaked Mexifolk brings Luz Elena Mendoza ever closer to being crowned the Latin-rock Feist. – Spin Read more »

It's been a wicked dry spell of seven years since the filthy unit of Mick Turner, Jim White, and Warren Ellis graced the world with a full-length album of any kind. As individuals, they've had their hands in many different pies between now and then, but nothing comes close to what occurs when the Dirty Three lock themselves in a room with the tape rolling to milk whatever they can out of each other. This time around, they've discovered the heavens and its heat source, birthing to the world a brand-spanking new album and gracefully aiming it straight for that giant orange bulb of the sky . . . they call it Toward The Low Sun and Drag City is proud to have released it.

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Two legends from the sixties folk revival are back! Geoff Muldaur and Jim Kweskin first appeared on a bill together in February 1963, went on to be founding members of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and almost singlehandedly brought about a national revival of interest in pre-World War II rural music with their good-humored performances and string of albums. Geoff and Jim have pursued many independent projects in the intervening years, but the two have been brought together again in recent years, performing with the Texas Sheiks project. Expect some reminiscing and storytelling, and lots of great music from these consummate folk musicians!

Adding to the web of interactions, Spider John Koerner will be opening tonight. Spider John, Geoff and Jim have crossed paths many times over the years, and it is a very rare treat to have all three performing on the same stage in one evening.

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

“The most beguiling talent to hit the world music scene in some time.” —Daily Telegraph (UK)

Catch the Midwest debut by Mali’s new music sensation, who has been wooing critics and lighting up stages around the world with her radiant voice, coolly infectious Afro-pop, and smoking live band. Fatoumata Diawara, aka Fatou, spins elements of jazz and funk into an exquisitely spare yet sensual folk-rock, inflecting it with the rhythms and melodies of Wassoulou, her ancestral song form. Likened to her mentor, Oumou Sangaré, Fatou has been hailed as the next female African songwriter of significance, one who “combines feminist social conscience with effortless melodic charm” (Financial Times).

Copresented by The Cedar and the Waker Art Center.

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

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