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Fountains of Wayne acoustic with Jon Auer

Thu, 07 May 2009 16:41:53 -0500

Start: 07/07/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 07/07/2009 - 8:00pm

Full band acoustic show from the power pop quartet. Their last release Traffic and Weather (Virgin) was described by Entertainment Weekly as "a simply wonderful CD of songs about love, lust and loneliness.", and awarded four stars by Rolling Stone. Opener will be Jon Auer, co-founder of The Posies, in a sole acoustic set.

Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb.
$18 advance, $20 day of show

Cedar Outdoors presents The Brass Kings

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:33:48 -0500

Start: 07/09/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 07/09/2009 - 7:00pm

This summer, check out the inaugural Cedar Outdoors series as we take to the patio with our programming every Thursday from July 2nd to August 27th. You can enjoy a local/regional artist perform two sets on our patio, along with a different beer special each week from our fantastic local beer makers. The concerts are free to the public and patrons of all ages are welcome. This week, Cedar Outdoors presents The Brass Kings (Steve Kaul on Acoustic and Resonator Guitars & Vocal, Mikkel Beckmen on Washboard, Refrigerator Door, Butter Dish, and Djembe, and Brad Ptacek on Washtub Bass).

Patio opens at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
FREE!

Bicycle Film Festival Program 3: I Love My Bicycle: The Story of FBM Bikes

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:08:01 -0500

Start: 07/10/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 07/10/2009 - 7:00pm

I LOVE MY BICYCLE: THE STORY OF FBM BIKES
USA 2009 | HDV 75 min.
Dir. Joe Stakun
In reaction to big business BMX companies in the early 90's, 17-year-old Steve Crandall started a company of his own called Fat Bald Men (FBM). What began as selling t-shirts out of a backpack has turned into one of the most well respected DIY bicycle companies around. Through fortune and misfortune, the film follows FBM through their 15 years of mayhem as told by Crandall and the rest of the BMX bicycle community from close friends to influential icons like Dave Mirra and Mat Hoffman.

Tickets are on sale online from Brown Paper Tickets.

Bicycle Film Festival Program 4: Down By The Weep Hole: The Story of the Stupor Bowl

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:12:07 -0500

Start: 07/10/2009 - 9:00pm

End: 07/10/2009 - 9:00pm

DOWN BY THE WEEP HOLE: THE STORY OF THE STUPOR BOWL
USA 2009 | 22min.
Dir. Nathaniel Freeman
Down by the Weep Hole is the story of Minneapolis' Stupor Bowl, the world's coldest and most inebriated alley cat race. The movie chronicles the race's development from a twenty-person local event in 1997, through 2009 when over four-hundred national and international competitors made the harrowing journey through the Twin Cities' frozen streets.

Tickets are on sale online from Brown Paper Tickets.

Bicycle Film Festival Program 5: The Third Wheel

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:16:20 -0500

Start: 07/11/2009 - 3:00pm

End: 07/11/2009 - 3:00pm

THE THIRD WHEEL
USA 2009 | miniDV 65min.
Dir. Brian Schoenfelder
The Pedicab industry in New York City was founded by George and Peter. We see how government legislates their small business while catering to special interests in this not to be missed documentary.

Tickets are on sale online from Brown Paper Tickets.

Bicycle Film Festival Program 6: Keirin Queen/Onna Keirin Oh

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:19:48 -0500

Start: 07/11/2009 - 5:00pm

End: 07/11/2009 - 5:00pm

KEIRIN QUEEN/ONNA KEIRN OH
Japan 1956 | DVD 88min.
Dir. Kokusai Hoei
A classic Japanese Keirin track film screened for the first time in the United States (with English subtitles)!
Miki, a daughter of a tiny fish storeowner in a mountain village, gains confidence riding a bicycle because of her morning routine of riding to the fish market. Miki starts training very hard at the Nippon Keirin School and begins to ride the road to success on the way to becoming a Keirin Queen.

Tickets are on sale online from Brown Paper Tickets.

Bicycle Film Festival Program 7: Le Dernier Voyage of Maryse De Lucas

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:22:41 -0500

Start: 07/11/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 07/11/2009 - 7:00pm

LE DERNIER VOYAGE OF MARYSE DE LUCAS
FRANCE 2008 | 22min.
Dir. Artus De Lavilleon, David Ledoux
David and Artus ride to the town where Artus' mother is from to scatter her ashes.

Tickets are on sale online from Brown Paper Tickets.

Bicycle Film Festival Program 9: Anima D'acciaio (Soul of Steel)

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:25:16 -0500

Start: 07/11/2009 - 9:00pm

End: 07/11/2009 - 9:00pm

ANIMA D'ACCIAIO (SOUL OF STEEL)
USA/Italy 2009 | HD 11min.
Dir. Daniel Leeb
A Portrait of the legendary Italian Frame Builder Giovanni Pelizzoli aka "Ciocc" . Ciocc shares his wisdom and life story while hand building a revolutionary new frame for urban fixed gear cycling. Ciocc demonstrates that the tradition and craft of frame building's Golden age can be re-born and push the technical frontier of Cycling's future. Also features Ed "Wonka" La Forte and Antonio Colombo with an original soundtrack by Blonde Redhead.

Tickets are on sale online from Brown Paper Tickets.

Deep Blues Film Festival

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:11:29 -0500

Start: 07/12/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 07/12/2009 - 7:00pm

A free screening of Hill Country Troubadour (the compelling story behind 2001 International Blues Competition winner, north Mississippi hill country disciple and one-man band phenom Richard Johnson, directed by Max Shores), and Songs Inside The Box (an introduction to the culture of cgar box guitar music via the 3rd annual Cigar Box Guitar Extravaganza held in Huntsville, Alabama in 2007, directed by Max Shores), with a possible visit by Max to a Q and A session following the screening.

FREE!

Cedar Outdoors presents Joe Roberto and Poverty Hash

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:37:20 -0500

Start: 07/16/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 07/16/2009 - 7:00pm

This summer, check out the inaugural Cedar Outdoors series as we take to the patio with our programming every Thursday from July 2nd to August 27th. You can enjoy a local/regional artist perform two sets on our patio, along with a different beer special each week from our fantastic local beer makers. The concerts are free to the public and patrons of all ages are welcome. This week, Cedar Outdoors presents the carnival blues of Connecticut-based Joe Roberto and Poverty Hash, featuring Tim Brennan, Jon Chapman and Jason Murray.

Patio opens at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
FREE!

Cedar Outdoors presents Hud

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:44:42 -0500

Start: 07/23/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 07/23/2009 - 7:00pm

This summer, check out the inaugural Cedar Outdoors series as we take to the patio with our programming every Thursday from July 2nd to August 27th. You can enjoy a local/regional artist perform two sets on our patio, along with a different beer special each week from our fantastic local beer makers. The concerts are free to the public and patrons of all ages are welcome. This week, Cedar Outdoors presents the blues/roots sounds of Hud, featuring Javier Matos on guitar and vocals, Grant Wibben (Luther the Devil) on upright bass and Dave Levine (Luther the Devil) on snare drum.

Patio opens at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
FREE!

Cedar Outdoors presents James Buckley Trio with Davu Seru

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:45:48 -0500

Start: 07/30/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 07/30/2009 - 7:00pm

This summer, check out the inaugural Cedar Outdoors series as we take to the patio with our programming every Thursday from July 2nd to August 27th. You can enjoy a local/regional artist perform two sets on our patio, along with a different beer special each week from our fantastic local beer makers. The concerts are free to the public and patrons of all ages are welcome. This week, Cedar Outdoors presents jazzy James Buckley Trio (James Buckley bass/composer, Bryan Nichols keyboard/piano, JT Bates drum set) with percussionist Davu Seru

Patio opens at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
FREE!

Cedar Outdoors

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:25:56 -0500

Start: 08/06/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 08/06/2009 - 7:00pm

Patio opens at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
FREE!

Cedar Outdoors

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:26:53 -0500

Start: 08/13/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 08/13/2009 - 7:00pm

Patio opens at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
FREE!

Cedar Outdoors

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:19:56 -0500

Start: 08/20/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 08/20/2009 - 7:00pm

Patio opens at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
FREE!

Bloodshot Records 15th Anniversary Beer-B-Q featuring Bottle Rockets, Waco Brothers, Ben Weaver and more

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:36:24 -0500

Start: 08/23/2009 - 3:00pm

End: 08/23/2009 - 3:00pm

Bloodshot Records 15th Anniversary Beer-B-Q featuring: Bottle Rockets, Waco Brothers, Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals' Starvation League, Ben Weaver, Deadstring Brothers, Ha Ha Tonka, Deano w/members of The Meat Purveyors. One of a limited number of shows around the country commemorating the 15th Anniversary of Bloodshot Records, and 70 Years of Rolling Rock. And it’s your way of getting some good eats, some extra pale lager, and some honest-to-god Rock-and-Roll at small town prices. This Bloodshot B-B-Q will have a bunch of the best bands from Bloodshot Records, buckets of razor-cold Rolling Rock and fall-off-the-bone barbecue. That, friends, is most definitely the recipe for a good time.

Cedar Outdoors

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:24:33 -0500

Start: 08/27/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 08/27/2009 - 7:00pm

Patio opens at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
FREE!

Rebellion Politik EP release concert with Carnage The Executioner, Samosa, and surprise special guest!

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:35:59 -0500

Start: 09/04/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 09/04/2009 - 8:00pm

Join politically-charged hip-hop group Junkyard Empire as they celebrate the release of their EP Rebellion Politilk, with help from their friends.

Tickets go on sale at noon Fri Jun 26 from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb.
$10 advance, $12 day of show

Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles CD release concert

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:14:14 -0500

Start: 09/05/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 09/05/2009 - 8:00pm

Come celebrate the release of everyone's favorite uke player's brand new CD! Full band show.

Tickets go on sale at noon Fri June 26 from the Cedar Ticketline, Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb.

$10 advance, $12 day of show LIMITED SEATING

Crooked Still with Jake Armerding

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:35:12 -0500

Start: 09/09/2009 - 7:30pm

End: 09/09/2009 - 7:30pm

The nines have it, and we can't wait to welcome them back, just shy of a year since their memorable Halloween 2008 appearance at The Cedar! The Boston-based string-band revivalists Crooked Still feature the captivating and angelic voice of Aoife O'Donovan, virtuosic solos from banjo master Greg Liszt, Corey DiMario on double bass, and the most recent additions, brilliant young musicians fiddler Brittany Haas and cellist Tristan Clarridge. Whether you are seeing them for the first time or are an old-hand, Crooked Still continue on their still deliciously crooked path of injecting new energy into traditional and roots music.

Opening tonight will be Boston-based singer-songwriter Jake Armerding.

17 Hippies

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:55:46 -0500

Start: 09/10/2009 - 7:30pm

End: 09/10/2009 - 7:30pm

From Krautrock to Punk, and Jazz to Classical Music … you can tell, the 17 Hippies have been around! The 17 Hippies started off playing “unplugged” - meaning unplugged - with their line-up changing from three to twenty or so musicians. A few years later they “condensed” into the current line-up, and for the past six years or more, they’ve been playing with the same thirteen people (with the exception of Danda, their new bass player) Their groove foundation is bass, banjo, guitar and ukulele (and sometimes accordion and tenor horn), and then they add cello, violins, clarinets, trumpet, and trombone … and no percussion!

Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:21:50 -0600

Start: 09/11/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 09/11/2009 - 8:00pm

A national treasure! Ralph Stanley’s voice is not of this century. Nor of the last one, for that matter. Its stark emotional urgency is rooted in a darker time, when pain was the common coin of life and the world offered sinful humanity no hope of refuge. Preserved in the cultural amber of remote Appalachia, this terse, forlorn sound is the bedrock of Stanley’s inimitable style. Now 82 years old, Stanley has been performing professionally since he and his older brother, Carter, formed a band in their native southwestern Virginia in 1946. Between that date and 1966, when Carter died, the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys became one of the most celebrated bluegrass groups in the world, rivaling in popularity such titans as Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs.

Chicha Libre

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:53:32 -0500

Start: 09/12/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 09/12/2009 - 8:00pm

When journalists in Lima want to write about Chicha, the psychedelic-meets-Amazon music once popular in Peru, ironically, they place a call to Brooklyn’s Chicha Libre. The new band—led by Barbès club owner Olivier Conan—is reviving the style that was popular among indigenous empowerment groups in the 1970s, but frowned down upon by the middle class and mainstream. Antibalas did it with Afrobeat. Sidestepper did it with Afro-Colombian music. Now Chicha Libre does it with the funky wah-wah groove and psychedelic organ of Peru’s Amazon. Their debut album, Sonido Amazonico (Barbès Records), features cover songs from the era alongside originals arranged not only in the sound of the time, but using the spirit of Chicha’s syncretism.

Roger McGuinn

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:16:26 -0500

Start: 09/16/2009 - 7:30pm

End: 09/16/2009 - 7:30pm

As the frontman and co-founder of the Byrds, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Roger McGuinn and his trademark 12-string Rickenbacker guitar pioneered folk-rock and, by extension, country-rock, influencing everyone from contemporaries like the Beatles to acolytes like Tom Petty and R.E.M. After spending nearly a decade in The Byrds, McGuinn felt a solo career beckoning. In 1973, he released his solo debut 'Roger McGuinn', featuring participation from former band mates including innovative country-rock guitarist Clarence White, Crosby and Hillman. Bob Dylan even contributed mouth harp on "I'm So Restless". A year later McGuinn released his second solo LP, 'Peace on You'.

The Twilight Hours

Fri, 22 May 2009 04:54:54 -0500

Start: 09/18/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 09/18/2009 - 8:00pm

A beautiful band name. A beautiful band. Two beautiful men, in balance with each other. Savage flowers of masculinity. They are John Munson and Matt Wilson of Minneapolis. They are the world's foremost connoisseurs, students and historians of their own music.

Tickets go on sale at noon Fri May 22 from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb.

$18 advance, $20 day of show

Kelley Hunt

Fri, 08 May 2009 09:45:36 -0500

Start: 09/19/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 09/19/2009 - 8:00pm

It's been three long years since roots/R&B singer/pianist/guitarist Kelley Hunt last graced The Cedar stage--now it's time for her many loyal fans to welcome her back! The fans already know that Kelley is a genuine rarity -- a woman who has muscled her way onto the scene on her own terms with an identity steeped in blues/roots/Gospel traditions and a refreshing originality. She makes music with it's righteous roots intact that also crosses boundaries, has an open-minded, exploratory attitude and takes on social and political issues. She's just released her fourth release Mercy, an intense, creative burst that fuses Hunt’s righteous roots influences and contemporary overlays with rich veins of political and social commentary.

An evening with Väsen (CD Release Concert)

Fri, 22 May 2009 05:02:03 -0500

Start: 09/20/2009 - 7:30pm

End: 09/20/2009 - 7:30pm

Everyone's favorite tall Swedish acoustic trio with a new CD on the fabulous NorthSide label!

Tickets go on sale at noon Fri May 22 from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb.

$18 advance, $20 day of show

The Cedar presents Ani DiFranco (at First Avenue)

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:49:23 -0500

Start: 09/20/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 09/20/2009 - 8:00pm

Ani's coming back! The Cedar is proud to present iconic feminist singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco in concert at First Avenue.

18+ show.

Tickets $32.50 plus fees, available from Ticketmaster, First Avenue, and First Avenue outlets only.

Marshall Crenshaw

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:18:36 -0500

Start: 09/22/2009 - 7:30pm

End: 09/22/2009 - 7:30pm

Over 25 years since breaking through to critical and commercial acclaim with his 1982 self-titled debut and its infectious, era defining Top 40 hit “Someday, Someway,” Marshall Crenshaw creates an incredible new chapter in his stage and film-worthy life with his highly anticipated 429 Records debut Jaggedland. Jaggedland is a musically dynamic and lyrically intimate collection of songs creating a truly career-defining record harkening back to the best and brightest from one of America's greatest songwriters and performers.

Global Roots Festival 2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:44:17 -0500

Start: 09/24/2009 - 8:00pm

End: 09/27/2009 - 11:00pm

The Cedar presents the 2009 Global Roots Festival, September 24-27. Expanding upon its ten year run of Nordic Roots Festivals, this annual event will now encompass performers from all over the world, each with their own unique take on their "local" music.

Global Roots music is not necessarily what most people easily identify as "world music." Conventions of rock, hip hop, jazz, and music from many cultures are blended. Barriers are crossed both geographically and stylistically. Like our previous focus with Nordic Roots, the presentation is decidedly contemporary, but the roots go back centuries.

All of this year's festival evening shows will be "standing room only," presented on an open floor for dancing and rocking...