Brazil

Start the year off right with a quick, one night musical tour around the world. Your travel guides for the evening will be: Ticket To Brasil, featuring Pavel Jany and friends performing acoustic Bossa Nova, Samba-Jazz, and electric Afro-Brazilian fusion and appearing tonight as a quintet; Kim Sueoka & Lau Hawaiian Collective, performing traditional Hawaiian music with reverence and imagination; and globetrotters The Robert Everest Expedition, whose music ranges from American jazz to Brazilian funk, Spanish flamenco to Italian folk, and Cuban Son to West African Agbadja.

No passports required!

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Brazil's seminal Tropicália band Os Mutantes returns to The Cedar!

The third annual Global Roots Festival kicks off with Finnish favorites JPP, celebrating their 30th year with a short U.S. tour. Opening is a new acoustic trio from Brazil who play traditional choro and other styles, Trio Brazileiro (Douglas Lora, guitar, Alexandre Lora, percussion, and Dudu Maia, mandolin).

This event is free and open to all!

Brazilian percussionist, singer and bandleader Dendê live in concert at the Cedar, with his band for a night of Brazilian afro-funk and grooves.

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

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• On sale date: noon Fri Mar 9
• 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)
• All Cedar shows are all ages.
• Students with ID may purchase tickets at a discount at the door.

“In Brazil, forró literally means party,” says Forró in the Dark’s Mauro Refosco. “It’s a gathering, a good time. The objective is to make people dance,”  which is exactly what Forró In The Dark have been doing since 2005 at their weekly residence at New York East Village nightspot Nublu, where their signature blend of down home forró and urban cool have made them one of the city’s must-see buzz bands.  They have also toured extensively in the US, Canada and Europe and supported Gogol Bordello's North American Tour in October/November 2010. Don't miss the party when Forró in the Dark make a return visit to The Cedar as they take the long way home from their 2011 Bonnaroo Festival appearance.

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A pair of adventuresome indie acts from São Paulo, Brazil.

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.

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An evening in the esteemed company of Brazilian singer/guitarist/percussionist Vinicius Cantuária, and American guitarist Bill Frisell. The two men have a long history of working together, with Bill guesting on Vinicius' albums Tucuma (1999), Vinicius (2001), Horse and Fish (2004), Samba Carioca (2010) and Vinicius returning the favor on Bill's 2003 album The Intercontinentals. The duo have a new album in the works, due out in 2011.  Expect improvisations that dive into a river of musical possibilities, and take you on a journey throughout the Americas and beyond.

Tickets go on sale at noon Fri Oct 15 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.

Smash double bill late show at The Cedar!

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.

Maita can set a love song to a martial arts rhythm; evoke harsh realities of ghetto life with gentleness and dry-eyed humanity; and most of all, use her fluid versatile voice and a rich musical heritage — from samba to jazz and pop — to make it all feel like one coherent whole. Lero-Lero is a discovery, but if Maita keeps making records this good, she could well be on her way to international stardom. (Banning Eyre, NPR's All Things Considered)

The Minnesota debut of sultry Brazilian pop singer Luísa Maita! Hailing from a country overflowing with musical talent, Luísa Maita rises above the fray as one of the most promising young singers of her generation.

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.

Nothing says summer outdoors under the stars quite like bossa nova, and when it is fused with some tasty synth, and smoky vocals from Karen Freire, you'll not even miss the pool!

Free!