Indie

The Cedar and DEMO welcome back Jonathan Richman, a groundbreaking performer from his early days with The Modern Lovers and throughout his long solo career.

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

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• On sale date: noon Fri May 4
• 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)
• The Cedar is an all ages venue. This show is not recommended for under 12's.
  
• Students with ID may purchase tickets at a discount at the door.

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.

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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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Indie eccentric Dan Bejar made the most immersive “soft rock” album of the year, turning smooth sounds to clever, cryptic ends. (#4 on Top 10 Albums of the Year, New York Magazine)

A second chance to catch Destroyer at The Cedar, as Dan Bejar and the Kaputt band tour once again in support of last year’s critically-acclaimed and Juno-nominated Kaputt. Opening will be Toronto musician and producer Sandro Perri (formerly performed as Polmo Polpo), touring behind critically acclaimed Impossible Spaces.

Otherworldly Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg, aka First Aid Kit, roar back into town in support of their sophomore album The Lion's Roar. English indie folk group Peggy Sue open.

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

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• On sale date: SOLD OUT
• All Cedar shows are ALL AGES

Montreal-based, Polaris prize-winning band Patrick Watson make their first visit to The Cedar, sharing their new album Adventures in Your Own Backyard. Lead singer Patrick Watson says the record is his band’s attempt to “make the kind of music we would want to listen to at home,” music which should also go over well in the homely environs of The Cedar.

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

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The Lower 48 are a group on the move, both figuratively, with their new album titled Where All Maps End continuing the theme of their debut EP Everywhere To Go, and literally, as the fledgling indie folk group moved from Minneapolis to Portland a couple of years back. Now, they make a trip back home to where it all began, and a slightly belated but no less enthusiastic album release celebration for Where All Maps End. With a sound rooted in 60's folk melodies and steeped in sweet harmonies, yet with a contemporary edge to the lyrics, The Lower 48 is a band to catch on the road while you can!

Eau Claire indie folk trio Sky Lion opens.

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A smash double bill from a pair of Minnesota's finest indie acts.

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• On sale date: noon Fri Feb 3
• 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.

Canadian folk rockers Great Lake Swimmers return to The Cedar on tour in support of their fifth full length album New Wild Everywhere, the followup to 2009's breakout Lost Channels. They are joined by rising star Cold Specks, whose eerily penetrating 'doom soul' music is steeped in the musical traditions of the Deep South.

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Atlas Sound is the musical solo project by Bradford Cox of Deerhunter. His most recent album Parallax was described by All Music Guide as "a quietly satisfying album with a determined fragility that makes it all the more moving," whilst NME asserts "lyrically he remains sublime." And according to Mojo, the music is "best consumed in a semi-recumbent position, in order to match the loping, laidback pace of the music and Cox's stoned, oak-aged vocals."

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