Dikanda
Global Roots Festival 2011Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 7:30pm
7:00pm
FREE! Cedar donors admitted first. Partial seated
At The Cedar
The third night of Global Roots Festival 2011 salutes travellers, and the contributions that migrations have made and are making to the evolution of music.
Dikanda is a young Polish band that plays a mix of traditional East-European and gypsy music, plus their own compositions.
Please note: Aar Maanta, originally scheduled to perform tonight, has been forced to cancel his USA tour due to visa problems.
This event is FREE! Cedar donors will have the option of early admission (6.45pm). Partially seated show.
Teachers and educational organizations: Are you interested in scheduling a daytime class visit with musicians participating in the Global Roots Festival? Please contact The Cedar at 612-338-2674 ext 0, or info@thecedar.org to discuss possibilities.
Ask Poland’s Dikanda what they play, and they’ll answer in a word: Truth. It’s that wellspring of deep emotion that can just as easily arise at village kitchen tables as in global sonic hitchhiking. To reach it, the six-piece band invents languages, re-...
Major Funders
This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota.
