Trance

The Cedar welcomes back Tinariwen!  This vibrant group of poet-guitarists and soul rebels from the Southern Sahara desert creates music to express the aspirations of their people, the Kel Tamashek or 'Touareg' of the southern Sahara desert. The guitar is their weapon. Simplicity is Freedom.

Ticket purchase options and info

On sale date: noon Fri Feb 4
Phone: 612-338-2674 ext 2 ($1 fee per ticket)
In person: From a Cedar volunteer in the front lobby before and after shows (no fee), Depth of Field (no fee), 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 gain discounted admission for tickets at the door. Read more »

"A few muttered words in Arabic, shrouded in echo. And then it erupts. A day-glo cloudburst of warpspeed Bontempi rhythms and snaking microtonal melodies. Psychedelic invocation to some lascivious simultaneist idol. Urgent glossolalia of electronic thunder and lightning. Amphetamine-powered merengué of dysmorphic frequencies. Notes from between the notes. Beats like the jerry-rigged machine gun fire of exurban guerrila fighters. Cosmopolitan party music from the end times. The death rattle of globalisation, echoing across the scarred plains of bomb-ravaged dreamscapes." (The Quietus)

Syrian mega-pop star and wedding singer Omar Souleyman brings his frenetic dance music to The Cedar!

Tickets go on sale at noon Fri Aug 27 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.

The eagerly awaited return by the guitar-toting former Touareg rebels, and the hottest desert blues act on the planet. Their tiny Cedar stop is sandwiched in between high-profile gigs at Bonnaroo, Hollywood Bowl, Millennium Park, and Central Park, and a couple of weeks before the band plays some big European festivals including Roskilde. Tinariwen continue to rock with their fourth album Imidiwan: Companions, which possesses all the elements that have made them so magnetic to Western ears: raw simplicity, melodic beauty, songs ranging from the epic and universal to the intimate and personal.