Klezmer

The Cedar welcomes one-of-a-kind klezmer rapper Socalled! Impossible to pigeonhole, and utterly irrepressible, Socalled has to be seen and heard to be believed. As Socalled (Josh Dolgin) explains, "Hip hop is all about representing who you are, your crew. I’m this little white Jewish dude living in the country. It doesn’t make sense for me to rap about guns, cars, and hos. I’m not going to rap about hos,” comments SoCalled. “What should I make music about? I should try to represent who I am. When I began digging for samples, I found these old Jewish records, and they were a clue about this funky, old tradition that had been forgotten. Yiddish theater, Cantorial music...all kinds of weird sounds…and the records had the most amazing breaks! And I realized that I could make my hip hop - my music from them.” 

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

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The show goes on! Stay tuned for more details as the Twin Cities number one brass-worldbeat-fun band The Brass Messengers keeps the party going in the space vacated by the rescheduling of the Balkan Beat Box show.

Tickets will be available at the door, and will be reasonably priced, so bring the whole crew!

Take the best of Klezmer and Tzigane (Gypsy), add a dash of Québecois, stir in a sprinkling of original compositions, simmer for a few years to let the flavors meld, and you begin to get the gist of Gadji-Gadjo. Created in 2002 by vibrant accordionist Mélanie Bergeron, the group also features five other musicians from different regions of Quebec who all now live in Montreal: Jean-Sebastien Leblanc on clarinets, Pierre-Olivier Dufresne on violin, Jean Desrochers on guitar, Mathieu Deschenaux on bass and Ivan Bamford on percussion. Read more »