Alt country

The Real-Phonic Radio Hour is a monthly showcase of American roots music, poetry, the arts and a world gone mad, performed before a live studio audience. This month's show at the Cedar Cultural Center features Dead Man Winter fronted by Dave Simonett (Trampled by Turtles), singer-songwriter Randy Weeks, and poet Julia Klatt Singer.

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A bountiful booking featuring burgeoning talent of Bethany Larson and the Bees Knees, the bouncy indie folk of Bella Ruse, and the boisterous bluegrass of The Boys n' the Barrels. Be there!

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• On sale date: noon Fri Jan 6
• Phone: 612-338-2674 ext 2 ($1 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 may purchase tickets at a discount at the door.

The Fred Eaglesmith Traveling Show rolls into town, and sets up camp at The Cedar! The iconoclastic Canadian singer, songwriter and bandleader Fred Eaglesmith promises to deliver a supercharged performance, showcasing material from his nineteenth album 6 Volts (released January 2012).

The album takes its title from the battery that powered the game-changing transistor radio – introduced in 1954, the same year that rock ’n’ roll emerged into popular consciousness – and embodies the notion of back to the future. Captured live in the studio with one microphone onto a one-track reel to reel recorder like so many enduring classics, 6 Volts bristles with contemporary urgency and authenticity.

Sweaty, country gospel-soaked, progressive tent-revival music for old souls in this mighty evening featuring Hoots & Hellmouth (Philadelphia).

Tickets go on sale at 12 noon Fri Jan 7 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 and Depth of Field), and online at Ticketweb.

All Cedar shows are all ages. Students with ID may gain discounted admission for tickets purchased at the door.

RESCHEDULED from Sunday Dec 12. Existing tickets will be honored, or if you cannot attend on the new date, call the Cedar (612-338-2674 ext 0) for refunds.

Just in time for the holiday season, Irish-Americana band Romantica do the right thing, and release their hit album America on vinyl! Opening tonight will be our old friends Courtney Kaiser and Benjamin Cartel, who together make music as Kaiser Cartel.
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.

All Cedar shows are all ages. Students with ID may gain discounted admission for tickets purchased at the door.

Just in time for the holiday season, Irish-Americana band Romantica do the right thing, and release their hit album America on vinyl! Opening tonight will be our old friends Courtney Kaiser and Benjamin Cartel, who together make music as KaiserCartel.

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.

All Cedar shows are all ages. Students with ID may gain discounted admission for tickets purchased at the door.

"Deep Blues" is the dirt beneath BB King's fingernails scratching a blackboard. It is not smooth and citified like your daddy's blues-it's raucous, rough, and rambunctious. It's punk of the ages. And many other things too.. ." (pat mAcdonald, 2009)

The Cedar welcomes the West Bank Deep Blues Festival to the patio for two nights! Tonight, the stripped down washboard, rope and guitar of The Brass Kings, and a trip to Purgatory Hill, courtesy of fomer Timbuk3-er pat mAcdonald and melanie jane. pat plays a “Lowebow,” which consists of two poles attached to a cigar box, strung with one bass string and three guitar strings.

It's the return of the tree huggin’, love makin’, pro choicin’, gay weddin’, widespread diggin’ barefoot hippie Todd Snider! He’s taken on Conservative Christians, hippies, Republicans, and frat boys. In his most recent album, “country’s conscience” (Spin, August 2006) and “top wiseass” (Blender, August 2006) Todd Snider shows us how to get through this economic crisis with ‘The Excitement Plan’ (Yep Roc). The album features GRAMMY-winning producer Don Was (Bob Dyan, Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt) and a guest appearance by Loretta Lynn.

An evening at The Cedar with indie folk act Phosphorescent, fronted by Matthew Houck, touring in the wake of new album Here's To Taking It Easy, and an opening set by Fleet Foxes drummer and singer-songwriter J. Tillman.

Just 20 seconds into the new Phosphorescent album, you hear something so immediate, so purposeful, so damn infectious, it's clear that something special is underway. The first album of original material since 2007's Pride captures the band moving into a truly extraordinary place. Here's to Taking It Easy is the culmination of the past three years: a grand statement, the album we dreamed Phosphorescent would make.

Jace Everett is an American country artist. Signed to Epic Records in 2005, he released his debut single "That's the Kind of Love I'm In" in 2005, which peaked at #51 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and was the first single from his self-titled debut album. He also co-wrote Josh Turner's Number One single "Your Man". But by far Jace's biggest break came when his song "Bad Things" was chosen as the theme for the HBO series True Blood. Just “Google” Jace Everett’s name and you’ll find yourself knee-deep in the ooh’s and ahh’s of daily papers from Boston to Chicago and Seattle that can’t discuss the second season debut of HBO’s rocketing Golden Globe-honored drama TRUE BLOOD without mentioning the brilliant opening title montage, devised around the swampy rockabilly come-on of Everett’s “Bad Things.” True Blood creator Alan Ball’s series and films, including Six Feet Under and American Beauty, have regularly made music cues into iconic characters.