Mandolin

An Italian guitarist in love with American music combines talents with a Ukrainian American mandolin and violin virtuoso for a magical evening of cross-pollinated roots, jazz, and folk. Beppe and Peter are old friends who love playing together and cooking up new arrangements of their rich body of musical works, with deeply satisfying results.

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

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Multi-instrumentalist and singer David Bromberg returns to the Cedar with his quartet, also featuring Butch Amiot (bass), Mitch Corbin (mandolin), and Nate Grower (fiddle). Expect an evening of sublime musicianship as David and crew sample from and give life to a broad swathe of American roots music.

Acoustic blues/roots guitarist and singer Tom Feldmann opens tonight.

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The Cedar welcomes back multi-instrumentalist (fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo and who knows what else) and singer Tim O'Brien! Tim's latest solo release is Chicken & Egg, put out on his own Howdy Skies imprint. Mixing originals, collaborations, and a handful of outside compositions, Chicken & Egg is an illuminating, engaging, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on the art of living. “This stuff reflects what goes on in the life of someone my age,” O’Brien reflects. “I’m 56 years old. I’m not the young kid on the scene – and I’m happy about that. I’m at a strange point in my life: my kids are growing up, while my parents and teachers are passing on. There’s a lot happening – but it’s just life, and that’s what this album is about. There’s a little love song action here and there, but mostly it’s about living life.”

Piedmont blues guitarist and singer Mary Flower opens the evening.

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

Celebrating his 70th year, and sounding as sweet as ever, the legendary fingerstyle guitarist, founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jorma Kaukonen returns to The Cedar, hot on the heels of the release of the first Hot Tuna studio album in twenty years, Steady As She Goes (Red House Records). Barry Mitterhoff will be there as well, effortlessly throwing off his astonishingly hot mandolin licks. Always a treat.

Advance tickets go on sale at noon Fri Nov 5 from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), from hard-working Cedar volunteers in the front lobby during shows (NO FEES!), 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.

The Cedar sure knows how to pick 'em--and so do the artists on tonight's smash bluegrass double bill: providing a living link to bluegrass founder Bill Monroe, the inimitable Peter Rowan has assembled an allstar cast in his aptly named Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, touring in support of their brand new release Legacy (Compass Records), recorded earlier this year with the help of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Del McCoury, and Ricky Skaggs. And in a more contemporary vein, the Boulder Acoustic Society take roots music in startling new directions.

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.

The Infamous Stringdusters represent the cream of the crop of young bluegrass musicians. With Andy Hall on Resonator Guitar, Travis Book on bass, Chris Pandolfi on banjo, Jesse Cobb on mandolin, Jeremy Garrett on fiddle and Andy Falco on guitar, the band pulls together skill and experience well beyond their years. They boast a combined resume that includes collaborations with artists like Dolly Parton, Leftover Salmon, Earl Scruggs, Bering Strait, Ronnie Bowman and Levon Helm. Catch the 'Dusters on fire at The Cedar, just two days after their third Read more »

The Cedar welcomes back a long-time favorite: Peter Ostroushko, who has come to be regarded as one of the finest mandolin and fiddle players in acoustic music. His tours have taken him to the stages of clubs, performing arts centers, music festivals and theaters across North America and Europe, and he has earned an international reputation as a versatile and dazzling master of instrumentation and composition. Read more »

For fifty years, Del McCoury's music has defined authenticity for hard core bluegrass fans, as well as for a growing number of fans among those only vaguely familiar with the genre. The most recent decade of that half-century of music making has been filled with new and ongoing triumphs. The Del McCoury Band has shown unprecedented stability, with but a single change in membership in fifteen years. Del earned membership in the cast of the legendary Grand Ole Opry in 2003, and the Band earned their first Best Bluegrass Album Grammy award two years later. Read more »