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10 / 25
Music Starts:5:30 pm
Zipp's Liquors & The Seward Co-op present: The Bi-Annual
Zipp's/Seward Wine Show and Tasting...over 150 wines, tons of unique
spirits, lots of cool beer and fresh food to sample...all to benefit
one of the coolest non-profits around: The Cedar Cultural Center!
Tickets
$25 from LocalWineEvents.com
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10 / 26
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Issa
ISSA. That is the name she now goes by. The artist formerly known as Jane Siberry now answers to Issa (ee-sah). Why, you might ask her? “It was time.” In her own trademark fashion of never following fads or trends, Issa furthers her consistent evolution as an artist. In the spring of 2006, for example, she sold off or gave away most of her possessions, including a home in Toronto. “I want to live in a more grateful way and be available to follow the current,” said Issa. And how do these changes find a place in her artistry? Issa now finds her home where her he(art) is. Being weighed down only by a knapsack and performing commitments, she can stay and work wherever she is inspired. “In letting go of everything,” she says, “it also means letting go of knowing how to write music. But I do know the world is restless for a new kind of music. As am I. Past music is not serving us as it used to. We are all changing.”
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10 / 27
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Yuri YunakovBulgaria’s most famous saxophonist, Yuri Yunakov, was born in Haskovo, Bulgaria, of Turkish Rom ancestry and rose to fame with the band "Mladost" and his subsequent 10 year collaboration with Ivo Papazov and "Trakiya.." With his Romani Wedding Band, Yuri performs Bulgarian and Romani (Gypsy ) music from the Balkan countries of Bulgaria and Macedonia. This music is renowned for its haunting melodies, dense ornamentation, complex rhythms, and stunning improvisations.
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10 / 28
Music Starts:6:30 pm
The Pine Leaf Boys have been making a name for
themselves for presenting their own inimitable brand of
traditional Cajun and Creole music with youthful
exuberance.
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10 / 29
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Erin McKeown Ben Weaver
The dynamic Ms McKeown has packed a ton of music into her young career, and with a brand new live recording called Lafayette due out Sept 25, she’s showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon! Equally prolific, restless songwriter Ben Weaver has been praised as “riveting” (No Depression) and “a startling talent” (Time Out London) that “tells amazing stories” (Utne Reader) in his evocative songs populated by birds, phone booths, lovers, and plastic bags stuck in trees. His May 2007 release Paper Sky reveals a major songwriting talent, haunting and quietly beautiful.
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10 / 30
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10 / 31
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11 / 1
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Celebrated Congo-based choreographer Faustin Linyekula turns The Cedar into a Kinshasa social club, combining a spirited soukous party with an intensive performance installation.
Linyekula, his five-member company, an all-star band of local Africans (featuring Yawo Attivor and Siama Matuzungi), and catering by Tam Tam's African Restaurant come together to create an immersive, emotionally resonant piece that reimagines an age-old and surprisingly joyous combination of tradition and myth in which villagers gather to drink, dance, feast, and concoct outrageous lies about their leaders as a way to laugh about-and subvert-the violence, corruption, and poverty surrounding them.
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11 / 2
Music Starts:7:00 pm
Celebrated Congo-based choreographer Faustin Linyekula turns The Cedar into a Kinshasa social club, combining a spirited soukous party with an intensive performance installation.
Linyekula, his five-member company, an all-star band of local Africans (featuring Yawo Attivor and Siama Matuzungi), and catering by Tam Tam's African Restaurant come together to create an immersive, emotionally resonant piece that reimagines an age-old and surprisingly joyous combination of tradition and myth in which villagers gather to drink, dance, feast, and concoct outrageous lies about their leaders as a way to laugh about-and subvert-the violence, corruption, and poverty surrounding them.
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11 / 3
Music Starts:8:00 pm
Celebrated Congo-based choreographer Faustin Linyekula turns The Cedar into a Kinshasa social club, combining a spirited soukous party with an intensive performance installation.
Linyekula, his five-member company, an all-star band of local Africans (featuring Yawo Attivor and Siama Matuzungi), and catering by Tam Tam's African Restaurant come together to create an immersive, emotionally resonant piece that reimagines an age-old and surprisingly joyous combination of tradition and myth in which villagers gather to drink, dance, feast, and concoct outrageous lies about their leaders as a way to laugh about-and subvert-the violence, corruption, and poverty surrounding them.
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11 / 4
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Robyn HitchcockOver the past three decades, Robyn Hitchcock has built a large and
distinctive body of work that's established him as one of rock's most
respected and beloved iconoclasts. The prolific English
singer/songwriter/guitarist's vivid surrealist songcraft has won him an almost cult-like following, and will no doubt attract many more fans with the upcoming release by Yep Roc of I Wanna Go Backwards, a five disc compilation of some of his most pivotal albums from the 1980s. The release of I Wanna Go Backwards coincides with a recent career resurgence during which Hitchcock has released the acclaimed albums Spooked and Ole! Tarantula, and become the subject of the recent Sundance Channel documentary Sex, Food, Death & Insects.
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11 / 5
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11 / 6
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11 / 7
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11 / 8
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 The Owls
The Owls are back, celebrating the Oct 23 release of their long-awaited second album, the full-length Daughters and Suns, with help from ELK and other special guest animals. Apart from a few compilations, The Owls haven't seen a release since
2004's "Our Hopes and Dreams" mini LP, which garnered enthusiastic critical praise, drawing comparisons to the likes
of the Velvet Underground, the Mamas and Papas, and Belle and Sebastian, and landing The Owls on multiple Year-End-Best lists.
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11 / 9
Music Starts:4:00 pm
Music Starts:11/09/2007 - 4:00pm
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NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL ACCORDION MONTH
Tenth Anniversary Celebration, presented in association with the Walker Art Center. Festivities include concerts, jazz symposium, workshops, jams, dances, and even a Midwestern potluck. This year NE Accordion Fest (NEAF) honors "Daddy Squeeze" Dan Newton with the "NEAF Accordion Achievement Award" for his devoted and unflagging support of the accordion. The award ceremony is 8 PM Friday November 9, but the Accordion Fest runs from 5pm Fri 11/9 through to 5pm Sun 11/11!
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11 / 10
(all day)
Music Starts:11/09/2007 - 4:00pm
End: 11/11/2007 - 4:00pm
NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL ACCORDION MONTH
Tenth Anniversary Celebration, presented in association with the Walker Art Center. Festivities include concerts, jazz symposium, workshops, jams, dances, and even a Midwestern potluck. This year NE Accordion Fest (NEAF) honors "Daddy Squeeze" Dan Newton with the "NEAF Accordion Achievement Award" for his devoted and unflagging support of the accordion. The award ceremony is 8 PM Friday November 9, but the Accordion Fest runs from 5pm Fri 11/9 through to 5pm Sun 11/11!
Music Starts:6:30 pm
The New Riverside Ramblers will celebrate the release of their second recording, Les Grands Bois (Big Woods). Like their first award-winning recording, the new CD offers a generous helping of high-energy Cajun dance music - on fiddle, accordion, guitar, bass, percussion, and French vocals.<--break-->
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11 / 11
End: 4:00 pm
Music Starts:11/09/2007 - 4:00pm
End: 11/11/2007 - 4:00pm
NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL ACCORDION MONTH
Tenth Anniversary Celebration, presented in association with the Walker Art Center. Festivities include concerts, jazz symposium, workshops, jams, dances, and even a Midwestern potluck. This year NE Accordion Fest (NEAF) honors "Daddy Squeeze" Dan Newton with the "NEAF Accordion Achievement Award" for his devoted and unflagging support of the accordion. The award ceremony is 8 PM Friday November 9, but the Accordion Fest runs from 5pm Fri 11/9 through to 5pm Sun 11/11!
Music Starts:6:30 pm
In the case of Mary Gauthier, four words are worth a thousand pictures. Between Daylight and Dark, her new Lost Highway album, finds her aiming her compass at the sky and searching for home. It is from this longing for home that this group of songs has emerged, and they fill Gauthier’s new album with both hope and anguish, with faith as well as fear. Mary Gauthier knows these places well, having traveled through a night that had stretched into years, from a turbulent Louisiana childhood through odd juxtapositions of accomplishment and devastation. The result is reflected in the music, starting as a trickle of songs almost from the moment of her sobriety and swelling into the stream that fed her earlier albums (Dixie Kitchen, Drag Queens in Limousines, Filth and Fire), and the stunning Mercy Now.
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11 / 12
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11 / 13
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11 / 14
Music Starts:6:00 pm
 Open Stage with host Tony Wentersdorf. Tony is a Minneapolis musician, songwriter, and storyteller born in Germany, who has lived in the Twin Cities for 32 years. He writes and records songs, and performs folk music at churches, coffeehouses, and nursing homes as a soloist and with a folk music quartet, The Waxing Nostalgics.
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11 / 15
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Gorgeous costumes, handmade instruments, and the otherworldly overtone sounds of Sygt (a whistling sound, and an imitation of the gentle breezes of summer, the songs of birds), Kargyraa (the howling winds of winter or the plaintive cries of a mother camel after losing her calf), Khoomei (wind swirling among rocks), Dumchuktaar (singing through the nose), and Ezengileer (mimicking the rhythms of horseback riding) from the group that first brought the ancient, animistic art of Tuvan throat singing to the attention of the west.
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11 / 16
Music Starts:7:00 pm
The Tinariwen story is already well marinated in startling myths; fierce nomadic desert tribesmen toting guns and guitars, Ghadaffi's poet-soldiers spreading their gospel of freedom throughout the world, turbaned rock'n'roll troubadours, Stratocaster on one shoulder, Kalashnikov on the other, 17 bullet wounds and rawest desert blues on earth.
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11 / 17
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 John Gorka Meg Hutchinson
John Gorka was born in Newark, NJ on a Sunday in July, 1958 under Eisenhower skies. He grew up in Colonia, NJ and at age ten got his first guitar as a Christmas present. Before John's fingers were strong enough to press the strings down his older brother claimed the guitar for himself. and carved his name in it. The younger Gorka never recovered from this blow.
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11 / 18
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys return to the Cedar for a special evening of the finest bluegrass music. While he has long been revered by enthusiasts of folk, bluegrass and country music, Stanley has lately been commanding the kind of honors due a musical original.
In 2002, he won Grammys for Best Country Male Vocalist Performance (beating out Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Lyle Lovett and Ryan Adams) and Album of the Year (for his part in the O Brother collection). Last year, he was the subject of an admiring profile in the New Yorker, written by novelist David Gates, who traveled with Stanley for months gathering material. He is the central figure in the D. A. Pennebaker/Chris Hegedus documentary "Down From The Mountain."
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11 / 19
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11 / 20
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11 / 21
Music Starts:6:30 pm
The magnificently indefinable Asylum Street Spankers began in 1994 at a booze and hallucinogen-fueled party at the Dabbs Hotel in Llano, Texas. There Christina Marrs and Guy Forsyth met Wammo. During a night spent singing and playing along the banks of the Llano River they made a pact to keep the all-night-sing-along-anything-goes spirit of that party alive.
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11 / 22
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11 / 23
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Piper's CrowNamed “Best Acoustic Performer” by City Pages in 2007, Piper’s Crow celebrates the release of Dick Hensold’s solo CD “Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes”. They are joined by cellist Michelle Kinney and violist Ginna Watson.
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11 / 24
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Chris Koza JoAnna JamesTwo of the Twin Cities finest singer-songwriters share this special Thanksgiving weekend evening at the Cedar. Chris and JoAnna will each bring their full bands, and plan on contributing to each others' sets. To preserve the moment, they'll be recording the evening for possible future release as live recording(s). Special guest will be Jessy Green (Foo Fighters) on violin!
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11 / 25
Music Starts:6:30 pm
After more than 15 years making music, it’s obvious Ohio duo Over The Rhine is in it for the long haul, and for keeps. Their commitment is underscored by their latest, The Trumpet Child, and its opening track, “I Don’t Wanna Waste Your Time,” a manifesto of sorts for the artists recently named to Paste magazine’s list of 100 Best Living Songwriters.
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11 / 26
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11 / 27
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11 / 28
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Michelle Shocked“She seemed to her first fans a kind of punkier version of Suzanne Vega – a woman folkie with bite. Since then, she’s confused everybody with pretty much annual reinventions of her style and material.”
(Neil Blackmore, Rough Guides Music)
One of the true originators of what is commonly now referred to as “Americana”, well before it was popular, Michelle burst on to the scene in 1989 when her landmark album, “Short, Sharp, Shocked” landed her a Grammy Nomination as “Best New Artist”. Fiercely independent and versatile, she is is an incredibly prolific singer-songwriter who refuses to be categorized. Her music and performances are influenced by her Texas roots, her political activism, and a self-assured style. She has been likened to troubadours such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Woodie Guthrie, yet can swing, rock, and even melt your heart like no other. Michelle was one of the first artists ever to fight for her freedom and creative control and win release from a major label contract with all her rights intact, paving the way for the many others who in recent years have followed her lead.
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11 / 29
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 GloryLand PonyCatAvant-jazz saxophonist George Cartwright's trio with bassist Adam Linz and Alden Ikeda on drums, and helped out by Fog's Andrew Broder in an evening of free-flowing improvised jazz. Born in the Mississippi Delta, George has been performing composed and improvised musics for over 20 years. From totally improvised concepts to the relatively structured beat music of his band Curlew his experiences have been considerable. From a starting point at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio in 1977 and a move to NYC fall of 1979 he has seen and participated in musical changes and challenges no one could foresee. And he's loved it.
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11 / 30
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Peter LangPioneering American Primitive guitarist Peter Lang is back with a new album and a CD release party at The Cedar! Peter Lang: Live at Charlotte's Web is a marvelous 2 CD plus DVD package that is a must have for Lang fans and fans of guitar music in general. The CDs are archival recordings from the late 70s and represent some of Peter's best tracks of early original material. The DVD is a live concert performance featuring Lang and fellow Takoma records label mate Michael Gulezian.
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12 / 1
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Ben Glaros Slim DunlapMinneapolis singer-songwriter Ben Glaros and a host of his talented friends and guests celebrate the release of Ben's new CD, Lovesong Roulette.
The new album features Ben on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and vocals, supported by a couple of the best rhythm section players in town, Greg Schutte on drums and Brian Roessler on bass.
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12 / 2
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Brave ComboThey're coming back! Two-time Grammy award-winners, and indisputedly America’s best contemporary polka band, Brave Combo are sweeping back into town with their brand new album Polka's Revenge, and a full head of steam! Don't say you weren't warned...
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12 / 3
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12 / 4
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12 / 5
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12 / 6
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12 / 7
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Michael Monroe: Photo by David Brunet From vinyl to digital, Michael Monroe is in his fourth decade of
performing original music, blending rich vocals, guitars, bamboo and glass flutes. With music and technology working together, powered by creativity, Monroe recycles his music "live" on stage to deliver a powerful mix of acoustic folk, reggae and jazz.
Tonight, we'll celebrate the release of Michael's latest CD Wintersong, a
collection of vocal and instrumental music inspired by the beauty of the Winter season.
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12 / 8
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 A truly magical evening of Celtic music - trad. tunes, shining original compositions, and a great deal of fun and cameraderie.
A button accordion and concertina player of enormous integrity and innate empathy with the music, John Williams (founding member of Solas) received his music from his father Brendan and grandfather Johnny who lit up countless house dances in Doolin, County Clare with reels, jigs, and hornpipes on concertina and button box.
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12 / 9
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 The KlezmaticsThe Klezmatics have forever transcended genres: blending klezmer with aching shtetl melodies, raucous Latin stomps, wild jazz riffs and provocative Arabic, African, American and Balkan rhythms. The Klezmatics will be presenting a contagious celebration of Hanukkah, marrying their soulful and ebullient Jewish roots to Woody Guthrie's poignantly mesmerizing and newly discovered lyrics. This program highlights their two most recent CD releases: the multi-cultural folk sounds of "Wonder Wheel" and the ecstatically danceable, hoe-down worthy "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah."
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12 / 10
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12 / 11
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12 / 12
Music Starts:6:00 pm
Jerry Rau has crisscrossed the country numerous times playing house
concerts, clubs and festivals.
His greatest passion is singing on the streets and mixing with all levels of humanity. In this particular way Jerry has personally touched and inspired thousands of people.
Jerry is the writer of hundreds of original songs as well as an informed and skillful interpreter of other songwriters.
His material ranges from deeply
intimate to sweeping
historical pieces. Jerry's music has been described by critics as having
simplicity, subtle nuance, and quiet intensity.
"Jerry Rau embodies the warmth and depth
of Americana." - Tone Magazine
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12 / 13
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12 / 14
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Free Range Pickin'It is not the holiday season at the Cedar without the annual Free Range Pickin’ Holiday Show! This year, there is even more reason to celebrate, as the show is the official debut of FRP's third CD “Flight Risk.” Engineered and mixed by Matthew Zimmerman (Peter Ostroushko, Pat Donohue), this collection of all original material explores a diverse range of modern acoustic styles, showcasing the band’s innovative and eclectic musical perspectives. The Get Up Johns will kick off the evening.
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12 / 15
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Boiled in LeadAs they head into their 25th year of performing their unique blend of Celtic rock'n'reel, Boiled In Lead have retained a freshness and vitality that escapes far younger bands.
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12 / 16
Music Starts:1:00 pm
 Andrew Bird
TICKET ALERT: AS OF 1PM SUNDAY 12/16, A LITTLE OVER 100 TICKETS REMAIN. PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS AT THE DOOR--DOORS OPEN 1PM! Just announced! Violinist / singer/ songwriter/ whistler extraordinaire Andrew Bird will be making a special stop at The Cedar this Sunday (2pm Dec 16) for an intimate afternoon concert showcasing songs from his new album Armchair Apocrypha, with help from Dosh and Jeremy Ylvisaker. Following on from 2005’s The Mysterious Production of Eggs, Armchair Apocrypha has something for everyone, with songs about dark matter, plane crashes, the Scythian Empire, and the Apocalypse, and lots of unexpected, delightful twists and turns. A unique convergence of folk, pop, gypsy jazz and even classical influences! Limited seating.
A portion of the proceeds shall benefit CEDAR CULTURAL CENTER capital projects.
TICKETS ON SALE 10AM THURSDAY DEC 13, AVAILABLE ONLY FROM TICKETWEB.
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Neal and Leandra
SOLD OUT.
An annual tradition eagerly awaited by fans and Neal and Leandra alike: it's Neal and Leandra's Holiday Show!
The warmth of Neal and Leandra's songs and personalities radiates unimpeded in the cozy environs of The Cedar, and is well complemented by the excellent sound.
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12 / 17
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12 / 18
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12 / 19
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12 / 20
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12 / 21
Music Starts:5:30 pm
On the darkest day of the year, we
celebrate the
Winter Solstice with drums, dance and fire.
World percussionist, Robin "Adnan" Anders (Boiled In Lead) leads a group of exceptional drummers as they lay down a rhythmic backbone for the area's hottest fire dancers. Bring your drums and dancing feet and get involved in this annual celebration - all skill levels are welcome!
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12 / 22
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12 / 23
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12 / 24
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12 / 25
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12 / 26
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12 / 27
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12 / 28
Music Starts:7:00 pm
The first time I saw the Black-eyed Snakes, I thought I had walked into a parallel universe. Alan Sparhawk, typically a sedate and melancholy musician, appeared to be having some sort of epileptic fit. He was thrashing around violently and screaming sounds that didn't even sound human, let alone lyrical. Apparently, it was supposed to be blues he was singing, but it wasn't anything like blues I knew. He was like John Lee Hooker being electrocuted. Meanwhile, Bob Olson, Brad Nelson, and Justin Sparhawk backed him up on guitar and drums; their demeaner suggested they were not playing music but butchering pigs. The whole sound seemed to reach into my chest and drag out my soul like a vine. This wasn't a show, this was voodoo.
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12 / 29
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 The Pines
City Pages A-list Pick 12/29: "...The Pines paint brooding masterpieces in shades of sepia, gray, and tan, evoking the desolate winter prairie...Jeremy Messersmith writes laconic, meticulously crafted pop-folk songs with a major dose of Brian Wilson-like pop smarts and quirky introspection laced with literary turns....Roma di Luna play sparse tunes that squirm and fret under thriving uncertainty...<they> etch tales of harrowing brittleness on their debut, Find Your Way Home, Channy in particular singing with a fractured radiance that sometimes seems like the bittersweet murmuring of ghosts." (Rick Mason, City Pages)
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12 / 30
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12 / 31
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01 / 5
Music Starts:7:00 pm
Recognized as one of the leading bands outside Louisiana, the Ramblers are not afraid to add their own twists and turns to the deep soul of Cajun music. Their compelling groove and contagious spirit have rocked the dance halls of the Upper Midwest for nearly two decades. Join their loyal following for another evening of roots, rhythms and rollicking.
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01 / 10
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01 / 11
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01 / 12
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Cafe Accordion OrchestraCafé Accordion Orchestra feels as cozy as a Parisian sidewalk cafe, with music full of French flavor, the occasional Spanish spice, plus a little swing. While others cop styles with a deadpan irony that gets old fast, it's refreshing to encounter a whimsical labor of love like this one. Led by the quietly dazzling Dan Newton, this quintet knows the value of understatement, warmth, discretion, subtlety and easy and genuine swing.
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01 / 13
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01 / 14
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01 / 15
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01 / 16
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01 / 17
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Old School Freight Train"After forty years of recording acoustic music, it's not very often that a new band catches (and keeps) my attention. Old School Freight Train has done that and more. Their finely-crafted tunes and innovative arrangements bring creativity, taste and wit to a broad spectrum of contemporary styles - vocal and instrumental, all firmly rooted in many traditions. They are certainly an emerging force to reckon with in today's wide world of acoustic music." (David Grisman)
Old School Freight Train, from Charlottesville, VA, combines thought-provoking lyrics with captivating melodies, soulful vocals, virtuosi instrumentals and imaginative arrangement. Blending folk, jazz, soul, pop, bluegrass, Latin and Celtic, OSFT offers a unique musical experience the Boston Globe claims is "the Next Big Thing" and the Chicago Tribune claims is "accessible but uncompromising in creativity."
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01 / 18
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Haley Bonar: Photo by Cameron Wittig
 Pieta Brown
An evening of great songs and great voices from two highly literate women with a knack for melody and metaphor.
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01 / 19
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Orange Mighty TrioEqually conversant in traditional roots music, classical forms and jazz improvisation, the Orange Mighty Trio delves into mostly original material, sprinkled with a few fiddle tunes and other favorites. This adventurous cross-pollination by Zack Kline (Piper's Crow) on violin, Mike Vasich on piano and Nick Gaudette on bass creates a unique crossover ensemble with a wide range-- a contemporary chamber-music-fiddle-band, you might say. If you're a fan of the likes of Tin Hat, Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, Ethel, or Kronos Quartet, then you won't want to miss OMT, especially with the added spice of this being the first live appearance of the band performing with guitar maverick Dean Magraw! EDITOR'S NOTE: WE HAD A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE NEW COMBINATION OF DEAN WITH ORANGE MIGHTY TRIO WHEN THEY DID A SURPRISE CAMEO APPEARANCE BEFORE THE OLD SCHOOL FREIGHT TRAIN SHOW ON 1/17. AMAZING MUSIC, RANGING FROM INSPIRED VARIATIONS ON APPALACHIAN FIDDLE TUNES TO TRANSCENDENT THREE-PART EPIC ORIGINALS!
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01 / 20
Music Starts:1:00 pm
 Carolina Chocolate DropsPlease join the wonderful Carolina Chocolate Drops for a free afternoon workshop at the brand new MacPhail Center for Music!
2--3pm at the Gary Sipes Performance Stage, MacPhail Center for Music
A co-presentation of the Cedar Cultural Center and the MacPhail Center for Music!
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Carolina Chocolate Drops
SOLD OUT! A LIMITED SUPPLY OF TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS AT THE CEDAR MONDAY EVENING.
"Dazzling in its velocity and virtuosity...defiantly ecstatic music." (David Fricke, Rolling Stone)
"Joyous, rambunctious and full of fun" (Amazon.com reviewer)
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas’ piedmont. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson both hail from the green hills of the North Carolina Piedmont while Dom Flemons is native to sunny Arizona. Although the members of the group have diverse musical backgrounds, they draw their musical heritage from the foothills of the North and South Carolina, with help from Joe Thompson, said to be the last black traditional string band player, of Mebane, NC. They strive to carry on the long standing traditional music of the black and white communities.
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01 / 21
Music Starts:6:00 pm
Carolina Chocolate Drops A LIMITED SUPPLY OF TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS AT THE CEDAR FOR THE EVENING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY. THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS WILL PERFORM ONE SET, FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION.
"Dazzling in its velocity and virtuosity...defiantly ecstatic music." (David Fricke, Rolling Stone)
"Joyous, rambunctious and full of fun" (Amazon.com reviewer)
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas’ piedmont. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson both hail from the green hills of the North Carolina Piedmont while Dom Flemons is native to sunny Arizona. Although the members of the group have diverse musical backgrounds, they draw their musical heritage from the foothills of the North and South Carolina, with help from Joe Thompson, said to be the last black traditional string band player, of Mebane, NC. They strive to carry on the long standing traditional music of the black and white communities.
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