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06 / 28
Music Starts:11:00 am
 Farmer Jason
TICKET UPDATE 6/27: GOOD SUPPLY OF TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE DOOR--PLENTY OF ROOM FOR EVERYONE TO HAVE FUN! When internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Jason Ringenberg created his children’s music character FARMER JASON in 2003, he had no idea he was launching what would prove to be the most commercially successful creation of his storied career. With JASON AND THE SCORCHERS, he pioneered the fusion of punk rock and country that turned the music world on its ear in the mid-1980s. Their first record, LOST AND FOUND, still shows up on critics’ “best of the 1980s” lists, and there is an exhibit of them in the COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME. When Jason went solo in 1999, the LONDON TIMES called him “one of the most dynamic live performers of his generation.” Jason could rest easily, assured that his place in rock’n’roll history was secure. However, with two sweet, beautiful, preschool daughters missing Daddy Jason during his 200 dates a year touring schedule, Jason wanted to make a CD that his kids could listen to while he was out globetrotting. Since they lived on a small farm near Bon Aqua, Tennessee, and Jason grew up on an Illinois hog farm, he reckoned that a roots oriented CD about farming and farm animals was just the ticket. Hence the first Farmer Jason CD, A DAY AT THE FARM WITH FARMER JASON, was born. He released it “purely for fun” in the fall of 2003, delighted to hear his daughters singing along to songs like THE TRACTOR GOES CHUG CHUG CHUG and A GUITAR PICKIN’ CHICKEN. That was the peak of his ambition for it. To his surprise, soon lots of other daughters and little sons were singing along as well. Disney’s magazine FAMILY FUN called it “one of the Top 5 kids’ CDs of 2003.”
Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Boiled in LeadIn the midst of 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. The current BiL lineup of Todd Menton (vocals / guitar / mandolin / bodhran / whistle), Drew Miller (bass), Dean Magraw (guitar), David Stenshoel (fiddle) and Robin "Adnan" Anders (drums / percussion) features uniformly great musicians who each bring a lifetime of far-flung musical exploration to the Boil.
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06 / 29
Music Starts:7:00 pm
 SiYAYA: Photo by Kurt MosesSouth African townships are overflowing with talented young people - singers, dancers and musicians. Poverty, the lack of opportunities and HIV/AIDS often results in all of this talent going undiscovered. Rev. Spiwo Xapile, director of the Zwane Community Centre in Guguletu, South Africa and Bongani Magatyana are determined to change this. Bongani Magatyana, an accomplished musician and composer, has formed SiYAYA - a performing group made up of 12 musicians who live in the townships surrounding Cape Town. In January of 2004 Magatyana held auditions and within a month the newly formed group was rehearsing daily at the Zwane Centre. Very quickly, word got out about this exciting new group and offers began coming in for SiYAYA to perform throughout South Africa, including an invitation to perform at Cape Town's prestigious jazz festival. Within a year, SiYAYA had recorded their first CD. In May of 2005, SiYAYA made their U.S. debut in Minneapolis. The Open Arms community was overwhelmed by their talent and the wonderful response from people.
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08 / 6
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Habib Koité: Photo by Dirk Leunis
[Habib Koité] sings his stories with soothing amiability, inviting you in, beguiling you with the implicit notion that the song he sings may be your history too... The telepathy among the members of Bamada is what you might expect of a sextet that has experienced few personnel changes over 20 years. Live, over the elastic braid of their interplay, Koité's voice alternately smoothes and scuffs the lyrics as if brushing them with suede. He's a global griot for the 21st century. (Britt Robson, Minnpost.com)
The must-see world music show of the summer, and a great kickoff to Twin Cities Pan African Festival! Malian guitarist and singer Habib Koité is one of Africa's most beloved and popular musicians. Featured in last year's Acoustic Africa tour along with Vusi Mahlasela and Dobet Gnahore, this show will be a whole evening's worth of Habib's high-energy, infectious rhythms, and sheer exuberance. His band Bamada features traditional instruments such polyphonic hunter's horns, alongside balafón (wooden xylophone), and n'goni (a Malian lute), and is the perfect complement for Habib's fluid kora-inspired guitar and soulful, earthy vocals. Lots of room for dancing!
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Music Starts:3:00 pm
Music Starts:08/22/2008 - 3:00pm
End: 08/24/2008 - 6:00pm
 Massive sale of 10,000+ LP records and books, music posters, memorabilia, videos, magazines!
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3pm--9pm Fri Aug 22
10am--6pm Sat Aug 23
noon--6pm Sun Aug 24
FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a full range of Cedar 20th Season tickets available for purchase (no service fees for cash, check or credit card purchases!).
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08 / 23
(all day)
Music Starts:08/22/2008 - 3:00pm
End: 08/24/2008 - 6:00pm
Massive sale of 10,000+ LP records and books, music posters, memorabilia, videos, magazines!
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3pm--9pm Fri Aug 22
10am--6pm Sat Aug 23
noon--6pm Sun Aug 24
FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a full range of Cedar 20th Season tickets available for purchase (no service fees for cash, check or credit card purchases!).
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08 / 24
End: 6:00 pm
Music Starts:08/22/2008 - 3:00pm
End: 08/24/2008 - 6:00pm
Massive sale of 10,000+ LP records and books, music posters, memorabilia, videos, magazines!
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3pm--9pm Fri Aug 22
10am--6pm Sat Aug 23
noon--6pm Sun Aug 24
FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a full range of Cedar 20th Season tickets available for purchase (no service fees for cash, check or credit card purchases!).
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09 / 4
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles Orange Mighty TrioThe Cedar’s 20th season kick-off event is free to the public and features storyteller Kevin Kling and local musicians Orange Mighty Trio and Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles. The event is sponsored by Schell Brewery. They will unveil one of their limited edition drafts, and your feedback will help Schell choose an anniversary beer in 2010. The event will also kick-off The Cedar’s “Light the Marquee” fundraising campaign which will fund the long-awaited renovation to The Cedar’s historic marquee.
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09 / 5
Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Punch BrothersPunch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
So goes the annoying jingle from Mark Twain’s amusing story of an early ear worm that spawned the name for virtuoso mandolinist/composer/singer and Grammy winning Nickel Creek-er Chris Thile’s latest project: Punch Brothers (formerly the How to Grow a Band), where Thile on mandolin and vocals is joined by Greg Garrison (Leftover Salmon, Ron Miles, Tony Trischka) on bass, Gabe Witcher (Willie Nelson, Randy Newman, Beck, Jerry Douglas) on fiddle, Chris Eldridge (Infamous Stringdusters, and son of the Seldom Scene’s Ben Eldridge) on guitar and Noam Pickelny (Leftover Salmon) on banjo. The project is an ambitious one, with the group’s debut release Punch (Nonesuch) a song cycle featuring at it’s core a 40-minute four-movement chamber bluegrass suite called The Blind Leaving the Blind, chronicling the story of Thile’s marital breakup and its aftermath through impressionistic lyrics that fall somewhere between a confession (directed, variously, to his listeners, to his ex, and to God), and an impassioned, late night, barstool soliloquy. Together, these performers helped Thile to realize the most conceptually daring, emotionally cathartic work of an already impressive career. Bluegrass, jazz, chamber and pop—all come together in a complex, but highly rewarding work that lead the New York Times to proclaim “expands the frontier of an emerging style of what might be called American country-classical chamber music.”
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09 / 6
Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Damien DempseyPart Van, part Bono, part Christy, and at times part Bob (Dylan or Marley, take your pick), powerhouse vocalist Dubliner Damien Dempsey puts a ton of energy into his passionate songs, and represents the undisputed new roots voice of Ireland. Damien has previously provided all-too-brief opening sets in Minneapolis for Sinead O'Connor and The Swell Season; this is his richly deserved local debut as a headliner. Openers tonight will be local Irish roots band Sweet Colleens, creating a doubly sweet opening weekend spectacular.
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09 / 7
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Eight HeadCome and help us show our deep appreciation to Bill Kubeczko, our leader and Artistic Director from 1993 until this past May. So many of the things we've come to love about The Cedar are the direct result of his efforts and talents. Just a few years back, Eight Head (Dean Magraw, guitars, Marc Anderson, percussion, JT Bates, percussion, and Jim Anton, bass) were Bill's favorite "house band," so it's only fitting that they are the hosts for this special event. And look for some very special guests to join in over the course of the evening including Ruth MacKenzie and Sowah Mensah!
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09 / 10
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 A Velvets-Beefheart-Zappa stew with Czech lyrics, free jazz saxophone, grungy viola, crunchy guitar solos, etc., but what makes it unique is the applause. This audience knows that rock & roll can start a revolution and set you free: It happened. (Steven Merritt, Time Out NY)
They've been called "the greatest obscure rock band of all time." Their name comes from a Frank Zappa song, their fame from being suppressed and jailed by Czechoslovakia's communist regime. PPU was just a psychedelic '60s band until the government took exception to their music. Forced underground in 1976, they played concerts at such venues as the barn at Vaclav Havel's country cabin. Their persecution was one of the factors that generated Charter 77, the manifesto criticizing the government and advocating for implementation of human rights, which gave its name to the dissident movement that swept the communists from power in 1989.
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09 / 11
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 One of Hungary’s most popular contemporary bands, Little Cow was conceived by László Kollár-Klemencz and his creative partner Igor Lazin in order to provide songs for their ‘Little yellow cow’ animations. From that auspicious beginning, the band in its current line-up began in 2005, brought to prominence by the incredible success of their song Szájbergyerek (Cyber boy). Although the video clip was not broadcast by any commercial channels, it became wide-known and popular via the internet. The song become a huge hit in the Hungarian music industry and was chosen as the ‘Song of the year in Hungary’ in the Fonogram Awards.
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09 / 13
Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Joan As Police WomanSinger, songwriter, pianist and violinist Joan Wasser spent the 1990s and early '00s in alternative rock groups, including The Dambuilders and Those Bastard Souls. Her skill on the violin made her an in-demand supporting player, tapped to collaborate with acts such as Lou Reed, Antony and the Johnsons, Sheryl Crow, and Rufus Wainwright. But a few years ago, she set out on her own under the name Joan as Police Woman, inspired by the character portrayed by Angie Dickinson. She earned raves for her emotional, punk-informed take on American soul music on her debut album Real Life. In June 2008, she released her second album To Survive, a homage to her mother who had died recently of cancer, and filled with stark, unusual imagery, with song titles such as To Be Loved, To Be Lonely, and To America (with vocals by Rufus). A highly distinctive, compellingly strong new female voice! Aviette will open.
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09 / 14
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Balkan Beat Box
“...a magnificent mash-up melding music from every conceivable corner of the globe and its history.” (Chicago Sun-Times)
"Take the rooster crow opening this CD as a warning, a wake-up call that your feet are going to want to dance and your head bob maniacally side to side. Balkan Beat Box does for Balkan music what fellow New Yorkers Yerba Buena done with Latin roots, twisting the tradition to their own nefarious ends. BBB blends Balkan horns and vocals, Middle Eastern rhythms, turntables, big fat power chords, and other musical flotsam into an exotic, compelling Balkan rave. Don't even try to resist." (Spin the Globe--World Music Magazine)
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09 / 17
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Dougie MacLeanDougie MacLean is one of Scotland's most successful, respected and popular musicians. Singer-Songwriter, Composer and 'magical' Performer, he is also a fine guitarist and fiddle player. From his home base in Butterstone near Dunkeld in the beautiful Tay Valley in Perthshire Scotland, MacLean tours the world with his unique blend of lyrical, 'roots based' songwriting and instrumental composition. His moving song Caledonia and melody The Gael (used in The Last of the Mohicans) have been recorded by hundreds of artists and enjoyed by millions worldwide.
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09 / 18
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko Spaghetti Western String CoAn evening of musical journeys across continents and through time, with a focus on that much-loved (and occasionally ridiculed) construct of wood, skin, metal and strings that we have come to know as the banjo. Canadian banjoist (and 2008 Juno Award winner) Jayme Stone went to Africa to immerse himself in the high-spirited soundscapes, the daily life and lore. What he came home with was knowledge of two banjo ancestors never revealed before in the West, aspects of African music that eluded its American counterparts, and musical friendships that reached across continents. The outcome of this journey is Africa to Appalachia, a collaborative album Stone recorded with Mansa Sissoko, a Malian griot singer and master-player of the kora (a 21 string African harp). On Africa to Appalachia, Stone and Sissoko blur the lines of time and location. Africa and America come closer together with the banjo being the bridge. The unshackled American banjo has gone back to Africa and returned with many stories left to tell.
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09 / 19
Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Rachel Unthank and the Winterset
Transcendent and grounded music folded around unsentimental old, new and imaginatively borrowed stories of booze, brawls, abuse, loss, fear, infantile death, depravity and sorrow.
The Cedar is thrilled to be one of only six centers within the USA to be presenting the stunningly enchanting new act from the northern reaches of England, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, on their debut US tour in the wake of a breakout 2007 that saw them make numerous Best of lists well beyond the trad folk arena, and a prestigious 2008 Mercury Award nomination (alongside the likes of Robert Plant/Allison Krauss, Radiohead, Burial). Sub Pop recording artist Daniel Martin Moore will open.
"If Fairport Convention's recent revival of their classic Liege and Lief album was a reminder of how English traditional music was radically transformed in the 1960s, then Rachel Unthank shows how the process is still continuing. She's a singer from the north-east, with a pronounced Geordie accent. And she reworks folk songs and new songs with a style that switches between bleak, charming, and unexpectedly intense and theatrical. She gets lead billing, but her all-female band play an equally important role, matching her compelling vocals with sparse piano and fiddle, harmony work or passages that veer towards free jazz. They bring an angry, dramatic setting to a well-known piece such as I Wish, move between chilling a cappella work and instrumental experimentation on My Donald, and add sturdy new settings to Robert Wyatt's Sea Song or the chorus from Bonnie "Prince" Billy's A Minor Place. One of the folk records of the year." (review of The Bairns, The Guardian 8/24/07)
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09 / 20
Music Starts:11:00 am
 Ralph's WorldThese days there may be lots of rockers making kid-friendly records, but there’s only one Ralph Covert, an irrepressibly enthusiastic performer who rocks just as hard for kids as he does for grown-ups. Perma-grin on his face, lime-green Chuck Taylors on his feet—even at the Grammies! —his traveling circus of catchiness known as Ralph’s World is equally loved by cool-seeking parents as it is by children, fortunate to be living in an era where their music both rocks and respects their intelligence and curiosity.
Music Starts:3:00 pm
Ralph's WorldThese days there may be lots of rockers making kid-friendly records, but there’s only one Ralph Covert, an irrepressibly enthusiastic performer who rocks just as hard for kids as he does for grown-ups. Perma-grin on his face, lime-green Chuck Taylors on his feet—even at the Grammies! —his traveling circus of catchiness known as Ralph’s World is equally loved by cool-seeking parents as it is by children, fortunate to be living in an era where their music both rocks and respects their iintelligence and curiosity.
Music Starts:7:30 pm
  Prudence JohnsonBenefit for the Obama Presidential Campaign, presented by Minnesota Mother's Peace Network
Please join us for an evening of song and community. Proceeds go to the Obama for President campaign. All are welcome.
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09 / 21
Music Starts:7:30 pm
 BaBa ZuLa: Photo by Alexander HackeBy mixing oriental instruments such as the darbuka, electric saz, and spoons with electronics and modern sounds, Turkish alternative music group BaBa ZuLa creates a sound all their own called "Oriental Dub". While a ney can represent the past Sufi-Islamic tradition, and a clarinet is the symbol of the music of the Turkish gypsies-an electric saz together with a wooden spoon can serve as musical compass to Turkish musical roots going as far back as pre-Islamic, shamanic times, through Anatolia reaches all the way up to present-day Istanbul. Despite sounds that might initially come to mind when one hears the phrase "Oriental Dub", Baba ZuLa’s music is in fact rock’n roll that rolls in a way that westerners haven’t heard since the late ’60s rock era. Baba ZuLa share their legacy through their music, a music born out of Istanbul and influenced by the memories of Istanbul passed on to them from generations past.
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09 / 26
Music Starts:8:00 pm
Music Starts:09/26/2008 - 8:00pm
End: 09/28/2008 - 11:00pm
 Please join us for the tenth and final annual Nordic Roots Festival. Artists scheduled to perform in 2008 include many of the artists who have transformed this weekend into an annual pilgrimage of Nordic bliss for so many people: Väsen, Hedningarna, Detektivbyrån, Triakel, Frigg, Waltz With Me featuring Annbjørg Lien and Bruce Molsky, Hoven Droven and Hurdy Gurdy.
Music Starts:8:00 pm
 Annbjørg Lien and Bruce Molsky of Waltz With Me VasenKicking off the Nordic Roots Festival this year will be favorites and good friends of The Cedar, Väsen, and a new project conceived by Annbjørg Lien, Waltz With Me.
Waltz With Me is an unusual string quartet project, informed by ancient traditions, but novel. Norwegian leader/composer Annbjørg Lien is a virtuoso of the Hardanger fiddle. Mats Edén (of Groupa) plays fiddle. Cellist and fiddler Tristan Clarridge also plays with Crooked Still, and Darol Anger's Republic of Strings. Bruce Molsky is a master of North American ‘ole-timey’ fiddle music.. and many other things besides. Here, he plays American and Scandinavian fiddles and guitar. Bruce also sings.
Väsen is a unique acoustic ensemble that transcends barriers and delight listeners with their music based in the rural Swedish tradition, delivered impeccably with a contemporary flavor.
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