Contemporary folk

A now perennial Valentine's favorite that has wormed its way into all our hearts, as the ever-endearing Lucy Michelle and crew, and Big Trouble re-invigorate love songs of yore. The All-time Greatest Valentine's Day Mixtape performed by LMVL and Big Trouble featuring deVon Gray, David Campbell, Matt Latterell and Brian Just.

The Cedar welcomes back independently-minded singer-songwriter Erin McKeown, on tour in support of her new album Manifestra (Jan 15, TVP Records). Canadian pop singer-songwriter Jenn Grant opens, and makes her Cedar debut.

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• On sale date: noon Fri Nov 16
• Phone: 612-338-2674 ext 0 between 12 noon and 4pm ($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 (approximately $2 fee)
• Online: Ticketweb (typically $2--$3 fee/ticket) (click on red Buy Tickets button at top of this page)
• The Cedar is an all ages venue
• Students with ID, seniors over 65, and children under 12 may purchase tickets at a discount at the door.

Minneapolis songstress Caroline Smith brings her band The Good Night Sleeps for her first ever headlining gig at The Cedar, at the start of a year that promises so much.

Ticket options and info

• On sale date: noon Fri Nov 16
• Phone: 612-338-2674 ext 0 between 12 noon and 4pm ($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 (approximately $2 fee)
• Online: Ticketweb (typically $2--$3 fee/ticket) (click on red Buy Tickets button at top of this page)
• The Cedar is an all ages venue
• Students with ID, seniors over 65, and children under 12 may purchase tickets at a discount at the door.

Dar Williams has been a major force in the folk-rock world since the early 1990s, when she rose from the Northeast coffeehouse circuit to the national spotlight. Her career received a boost when Joan Baez recorded several of her songs and invited Dar Williams to tour with her. She’s also performed with the likes of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Ellis Paul and Cliff Eberhardt. Her 1998 collaboration with Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky (Cry Cry Cry) was a critically acclaimed success.

Selling over a million albums during her career, she has been named one of the most influential singersongwriters of her time by Rolling Stone, Spin and Paste Magazine. NPR’s World Café praised her “smart and serious songs with her trademark wit.”

An evening with singer-songwriter and guitarist Michael Johnson. His voice immediately identifies him as the man who sings "Bluer Than Blue", "Give Me Wings", "That's That", "This Night Won't Last Forever" and other landmark songs. His music shows a diversity, depth and heart that only come from years of dedication to a labor of love.

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

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Singer-songwriters Pieta Brown and Sean Rowe share a love of nature, and a knack for writing finely crafted songs firmly rooted in place. It is only natural that sooner or later they'd find each other sharing the same stage for an evening of songs that strike deep into the heart.

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

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“…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 »

"…a master of building songs from the ground up — from live violin loops to layered singing to beatboxing. His songs are complicated pocket symphonies steeped in classical playing and 21st-century pop… always interesting and full of promise." (Bob Boilen, NPR)

Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym of K Ishibashi, a multi-instrumentalist who released his debut album, 151a, earlier this year through Joyful Noise. 151a is a bright and soaring avant-pop record written primarily on violin - Kishi Bashi's main instrument which has brought him to record and tour with Regina Spector, Sondre Lerche, Alexi Murdoch, of Montreal and more.

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

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Join the celebration as Eau Claire band The Daredevil Christopher Wright release their new album The Nature of Things. They'll be joined by We Are The Willows, and fellow Eau Claire act Kalispell, also celebrating the release of a new album.

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

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After 20 years in the music biz, self-described “Little Folksinger” Ani DiFranco is still technically little, although her influence on fellow musicians, activists, and indie-minded people the world over has been huge. She still proudly identifies as a folksinger, too, but her understanding of that term has always been far more expansive than a bin at the record store or a category on iTunes, with ample room for soul, funk, jazz, electronic music, spoken word, and a marching band or two. Over the course of more than 20 albums, including the live double-CD Living in Clip (1997) and the two-disc career retrospective Canon (2007), as well as her latest, ¿Which Side are You On? (2012), Ani has never stopped evolving, experimenting, testing the limits of what can be said and sung.

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