Oreka TX with Portico Quartet

Global Roots Festival 2010 takes you on a journey of exploration, letting you hear sounds ancient and modern. Tonight, enjoy young British jazzers The Portico Quartet, who feature a very cool sounding, modern steel drum-like instrument called the hang, and a multimedia production by Oreka TX, a Basque Spanish ensemble who play an unusual Basque mallet instrument called the txalaparta. They travelled the world with it seeking unusual musical accompanists and documented their adventure with the film "Nömadak Tx," and for this performance they will project sequences from the film while they play a live score.

Global Roots Festival Special: Buy a Festival Pass for only $49, and gain entry to all four Global Roots Festival 2010 shows! Buy passes from Ticketweb, or the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), or from a hard-working Cedar volunteer in the front lobby during shows.

Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), from hard-working Cedar volunteers in the front lobby during shows, from Cedar outlets (Electric Fetus, Irish on Grand, Homestead Pickin' Parlor, and Depth of Field), and online at Ticketweb.

All Cedar shows are all ages.

Tonight, there will be a limited supply of food available for purchase from Jakeenos.

Oreka TX

The Basques are a unique group of people whose origins are somewhat surrounded in mystery. They are believed to be prehistoric inhabitants of Europe and possibly the direct descendants of Cro-Magnon man; their language is entirely different from any other...

Portico Quartet

The Portico Quartet are a bunch of guys in their early twenties who play instrumental music. Formed four years ago from two sets of school friends, they share a house in East London, make recordings, and play festivals and clubs. Yet what distinguishes them...