Chamber

A spellbinding highlight of the 2011 Global Roots Festival returns! Chamber Music is a collaboration between Ballaké Sissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Segal, a French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello. Together, they create stunning music of quiet beauty and soulful simplicity.

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"...the formal elegance of chamber music with a pop-honed concision and rhythmic vitality" - Time Out New York

"NOW... imports a catchy inflection to classical forms... Striking a balance between the old and the new has rarely sounded this good." -Newsweek

New York-based NOW Ensemble is a dynamic young group of performers and composers dedicated to making new chamber music for the 21st century. With a unique instrumentation of flute, clarinet, electric guitar, double bass, and piano, the ensemble brings a fresh sound and a new perspective to the classical tradition, infused with the musical influences that reflect the diverse backgrounds of its members. NOW strives to produce the very cutting edge of new chamber music through close collaborations with composers and consistently compelling performances.

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Composing and performing three different pieces for the upright bass and accompaniment, Nicholas Gaudette will pair each composition with a different style of dance. Each piece is a collaborative exploration with dance artists from a range of cultural backgrounds, and plays with different yet resonant approaches to time signatures, rhythm cycles, and musicality. Gaudette is well versed in matching music with dance. He recently collaborated with the Maggie Bergeron & Company dance company in Minneapolis as well as solo collaborations for performances at the Walker Art Center as well as Bryant Lake Bowl. He routinely plays bass with the Orange Mighty Trio but also dabbles in classical and folk genres. His piece will merge the visual with the aural to test the limits of the instrument and create a compelling new role for the versatile upright bass.

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The maverick chamber trio is back with a mysterious new CD, and an even more mysterious opener, Nerd Enhanced Sound, who recreate and interpret the intriguing sonic world of 8-bit music (and beyond) with a virtuosic flair and robotic precision.  Experience the soundtrack to generation X, Y and Z as it has never been heard before!

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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.

The City of Tomorrow (CoT) is a chamber ensemble specializing in new and forgotten masterpieces for wind quintet. CoT was awarded the gold medal at the 2011 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. 

Minneapolis is one of the last stops on the ensemble's fall tour of the Midwest, and they're crazy excited to share this music with friends and fans in one of their favorite cities. Please join in!! 

PROGRAM
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974): La cheminée du Roi René (1942)
Esa-Pekka Salonen (b.1958): Memoria (2003)
Elliott Carter (b.1908): Woodwind Quintet (1948)
David Lang (b.1957): Breathless (2003)
Luciano Berio (1925-2003): Ricorrenze (1987)
Franco Donatoni (1927-2000): Blow (1989)

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Sea Wolf, touring behind the new album Old World Romance (Dangerbird Records, Sept 11 2012). The songs are stripped back and lean, simply melodic and brightly propulsive. According to founder and leading man, Alex Brown Church, “This record is about a lot of things, but some of it is about coming home after being away and facing the realities of one’s life, and life in general. Things you may have run away from, and things you are ready to embrace. Reconnecting and growing up.”

Northwest folk pop outfit Hey Marseilles opens.

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Patrick Watson returns to the Cedar stage for more adventures after the group's sublime performance at the venue in early June 2012, and with the benefit of six months of touring behind acclaimed album Adventures In Your Own Backyard.

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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.

Hip string quartet Brooklyn Rider return to The Cedar, this time with Iranian kamancheh (Persian bowed string instrument) player and classical composer Kayhan Kalhor, with whom they collaborated on the highly praised recording Silent City (2008).

The program will include 'Atashgah', 'Beloved, do not let me be discouraged', and 'Three Persian Miniatures', all by Colin Jacobsen, 'Culai', which is a piece for string quartet by Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin that was a commission for Brooklyn rider by Chamber Music America's Classical Commissioning Grant, and other works.

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