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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 / 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 / 8
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01 / 9
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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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01 / 22
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01 / 24
Music Starts:6:30 pm
Even after making nine brilliant recordings, English guitar great and raconteur Adrian Legg's true home is onstage. “Playing live is the whole point,” he says. “Everyone makes a journey, an effort; we all come together – me, the audience, the people who run the venue – to share this wonderful, universal, human emotional interaction. This is where music lives.”
"To say Legg plays a good guitar is like saying Menuhin saws a fine fiddle. This man is ridiculously talented." (Music Week)
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01 / 25
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Diane Jarvi
Diane Jarvi's music can best be described as poetic cross-cultural jazzy bilingual world folk -- OK, her music is hard to describe. But it's certainly not hard to like. Dubbed the "Minnesota nightingale" by fans in Finland, Jarvi is the star of two Finnish documentary films. She's also an award-winning poet under the name Diane Jarvenpa, with a new volume of poems -- "The Tender, Wild Things" -- just issued by New Rivers Press. Best known for her sensual vocals, Jarvi also plays guitar and various multi-stringed kanteles, or Finnish zithers. Jarvi officially releases her fifth CD, "Wild Gardens," with an all-star supporting cast from the jazz, folk, blues and bluegrass worlds. And the music is as varied as their backgrounds, with detours into the British Isles ("Wild Mountain Thyme"), Tex-Mex cantinas ("You Are My Flower"), and the world of vivid dreams ("This Is Rain"). (Tom Surowicz, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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01 / 26
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Inaugural night in a new concept for the Cedar: The 416 Club series, where The Cedar presents established AND up-and-coming artists, mostly but not exclusively local, in a relaxed evening showcase. Musicians have a chance to explore new material, to play with new combinations of line-ups, and to woo appreciative new audiences. Tonight, with Kari Larson and Lisa Schultz from the Ditch Lilies, Jon Rodine, Molly Maher, Jennifer Markey, Steve Kaul and Dave Babb, and the incomparable High 48's. This month's line-up curated by Jon Rodine!
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01 / 27
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 D'GaryInternational Guitar Night is the annual mini-festival that allows you to hear in one evening four of the best acoustic guitarists on the planet, providing an inspirational experience for guitarists and guitar-lovers alike. There are always an intriguing range of styles on display during International Guitar Night, and this year is no exception. Madagascan guitarist D'Gary headlines, and as David Lindley (co-producer with Henry Kaiser of the influential "A World Out of Time" album that first brought D'Gary to the attention of the wider world) says, D'Gary "is a monster guitarist".
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01 / 28
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01 / 29
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01 / 31
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Tomorrow is the last day to help The Cedar win a grant of up to
$50,000 through facebook.com. Click here to learn more.
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02 / 1
Music Starts:1:00 pm
Support live music and The Cedar! Donate $10 to The Cedar through
facbook.com by 2pm today and The Cedar could win a grant of up to $50,000.
Click here to find out how.
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Happy AppleHappy Apple is Erik Fratzke (fender bass, guitar, composer), David King (drums, cymbals, toys, composer), and Michael Lewis (saxophones, keyboards, upright bass, composer), who have been making innovative freeform jazz together since 1996. It has been a while since the Apple last played at The Cedar, but the group has not been idle: in August 2007 they released a new record modestly titled "Happy Apple Back on Top" We're glad to hear it, and glad to have them back! Opening will be James Buckley Trio, lead by James Buckley on bass, and featuring J. T. Bates (drums), and Brian Nichols (piano). Their debut album Stitches has been praised as "a weathered and care-worn gem whose best quality is the way its resolutely lo-fi sound accents and enhances the comfortable and intimate interplay between the players." (Steve McPherson, ReveilleMag.com)
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02 / 2
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 Ellis is a rising star in the independent music scene. With her joyful, unpretentious acoustic folk rock style, this Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter has been steadily building a loyal fan-base of thousands. Tonight we'll be celebrating the release of Ellis' sixth CD, Break The Spell, a few days before it becomes available to the general public on Feb 5, 2008. Ellis will perform as part of a trio featuring her long-time drummer/percussionist Jennifer "JJ" Jones, and Anne Heaton will play keys and also join Ellis on backing vocals. Anne will also do a short opening set. Break The Spell is a collection of soulful songs with complex arrangements that skillfully avoid overpowering the message. Fans and music critics alike describe Ellis' music as a journey of self- discovery and awakening. Break The Spell embodies this sentiment, featuring lyrics rich with meaning. In the songs, Ellis explores the power and complexity of loss as well as the opportunity we all have to re-invent ourselves each day.
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02 / 3
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 The perfect Superbowl Sunday show! Two excellent singer-songwriters in one evening, featuring New England's Catie Curtis, and Minneapolis' (formerly of Asheville, NC) own Brianna Lane.
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02 / 4
Music Starts:6:30 pm
 Tim FinnNew Zealand legendary singer-songwriter Tim Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House, The Finn Brothers) in a smash double-bill with White Bear Lake native Alice Peacock! Tim's latest release Imaginary Kingdom is the best record of his solo career. There's something in the writing that stamps the album as a modern classic. Tunes such as 'Astounding Moon', 'Couldn't Be Done' and 'Show Yourself' become ingrained in your cranium and stay there for days. The tunes were dreamt up in New Zealand and recorded in Nashville with producer Bobby Huff (Jordan McCoy/Julian Lennon/LeAnn Rimes). Later, mixes were streamed down the internet and Finn would drive his car on roads lit by the moon listening to MP3 files. Crackling through the speakers, the mood of the new material spoke volumes. The lyrics venture towards magic realism, Finn invites the listener into a private world … his own Imaginary Kingdom. The melodies are sharp and engaging, the instrumentation serves the tunes; while the lush strings occasionally add a seductive quality rarely realized in contemporary music. 'Winter Light', which appeared in the film The Chronicles Of Narnia, was inspired during a winter photo shoot when the photographer talked of the way the light seemed to bounce back up from the ground.
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