The World’s Music. Here.
Welcome to The Cedar Cultural Center!
We’re a nonprofit music venue located in the heart of Minneapolis offering 200+ shows a year plus programming supporting artists and communities
The World’s Music. Here.
Welcome to The Cedar Cultural Center!
We’re a nonprofit music venue located in the heart of Minneapolis offering 200+ shows a year plus programming supporting artists and communities
Curator Ritika Ganguly and The Cedar Cultural Center invite music makers in any genre interested in unusual time signatures to audition to showcase their work in the first-ever Odd Measures Even-ing.
Following a decade long break after Silver Jews disbanded in 2009, David Berman returns to the music scene for the first tour with his new project, Purple Mountains. It’s Berman’s most to-the-bone album yet, full of double-jointed wit and wisdom, up to the neck in his special recipe of hand-crafted country-rock joys and sorrows.
Curator Ritika Ganguly and The Cedar Cultural Center invite music makers in any genre interested in unusual time signatures to audition to showcase their work in the first-ever Odd Measures Even-ing.
In their podcast, This Might Get Weird, Grace and Mamrie talk nonsense, common sense and make jokes at their own expense all the while trying to provide you with 30+ minutes of your day you might not hate completely.
A five time Grammy nominee, Robben Ford is one of the premier electric guitarists of today. Though he plays a variety of genres, he’s well-known for his skills in slinging the blues. Despite his fame, Robben ford brings an intimacy to his live set, responding to audience energy, making it an unforgettable experience for all.
This August 30th and 31st, join Mother Goose’s Bedtime Stories as we mark 2 years of creating a space of artistic abundance and meaningful connection and collaboration. This fantastical cabaret is part showcase, variety show and part theatrical production, blending established acts with brand new, and newer acts.
The High Kings, a Celtic supergroup comprised of former members of Riverdance, the Clancy Brothers, The Three Irish Tenors, and more, are charting a new course for traditional Irish ballad music, equal parts rousing and reflective, energetic and insightful.
An energetic acoustic band with a mix of folk, hip-hop, and son jaracho influences, Las Cafeteras perform in such a way that audiences can’t help but join in the singing and dancing.
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians™ (AACM)’s Great Black Music Ensemble features some of Chicago’s most visionary artists of improvisation and creative music, carrying on the legacy of Chicago’s South Side creative music by expressing the excitement of new sounds and rhythms while invigorating Black musical traditions including funk, reggae, bebop, swing and African and Caribbean styles.
Curator Ritika Ganguly and The Cedar Cultural Center invite music makers in any genre interested in unusual time signatures to come audition on August 22nd and 24th to be part of the first-ever Odd Measures Even-ing
Have you ever looked at The Cedar’s calendar, and wondered, “Why are they presenting THAT?” Hear from The Cedar’s Executive Director David Hamilton about booking, the complicated definition of “global” music, and how rentals fit into The Cedar’ bottom line.
La Misa Negra will be performing with Dos Santos at The Cedar this Friday, July 19th. We interviewed the founder of La Misa Negra, Marco Polo Santiago, to learn more about their unique blend of cumbia and high-energy Afro-Latin music.
Dos Santos, who are performing with La Misa Negra at The Cedar this Friday, July 19th, create cutting edge music that fuses cumbia influences with psychedelic, Latin jazz, and punk threads. We interviewed Alex Chávez, the lead singer of Dos Santos, to learn more about their musical and cultural influences, and their thoughts on politics, community, public dialogue and more.
The 2019 Global Roots Festival features an eclectic roster of international artists performing free concerts on The Cedar’s mainstage: the hypnotic women-led Tuareg blues of Les Filles De Illighadad; Afro-Argentine reggae icon Fidel Nadal with Mr. Pauer; masterful Korean percussion from Kim So Ra; Dublin folk miscreants Lankum; Chadian-Canadian Afrofuturist electro-fusion DJ AfroTroniX; and Jordanian-Palestinian shamstep pioneers 47SOUL.
Daniel Kahn is a Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter whose poetically and politically charged music has been described as “Klezmer Yiddish Punk Cabaret.” Read on to learn more about his musical and cultural influences, and his thoughts on politics, resistance, healing, and much more.
