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
Hailed as one of the great songwriters of her generation, Rickie Lee Jones will be bringing her brand new covers album Kicks to The Cedar. With a heavy presence of Americana and blues, Rickie reimagines each track, inventively making them her own.
Part poetry, part lamentation, part book reading, part ribaldry, part concert, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there. What would you call such a thing? Nights of Grief & Mystery.
This is the second installment of the Lineage Black Music series, presented by guitarist Julian Manzara as part of The Cedar Artist Collective. This evening at Pimento will feature soulful singer-songwriter Kashimana followed by progressive jazz group Lifeforce led by Kenne Thomas.
English guitarist Adrian Legg is globally acclaimed for his unique blend of acoustic and electric fingerstyle playing. His creativity and virtuosity on the guitar combined with his witty English humor create an incredibly special, magical evening for new and old fans alike. Phil Heywood to open the night.
The Daily Show Writers Stand-Up Show features the comics behind the jokes that make you laugh every night on Comedy Central's premiere late night show. These comedians tour the country performing their own material that you won't see on The Daily Show. From making fun of their failed dating lives, being a cat owner, or talking Trump, this show has something for everyone!
Grammy-winning guitarist Pat Donohue and his Prairie Home All-Stars team up with eclectic Twin Cities guitarist Jerry Kosak to present a concert of contemporary Americana at The Cedar.
With a bit of fifties folk, tropical calypso, and country, Canadian Old Man Luedecke writes music that’s equal parts light hearted and pensive. Often penning lyrics about his experience as a father, the Juno award-winning artist comes to The Cedar supporting his new album, Easy Money. Ryan Acker (of the Last Revel) to open.
Prairie Fire Lady Choir returns to The Cedar to raise their collective voices in collaboration with PaviElle to support art, community, and creativity! Known for their covers of local artists and national artists, Prairie Fire Lady Choir is excited to co-create with powerhouse vocalist and interdisciplinary artist, PaviElle.
Nu Cosmos is a special evening of presented by Greg Grease of The Cedar's Artist Collective celebrating unity, culture, and community emboldened by multi-generational spaces and conversations, featuring performances by Temezgen, DJ Yon, Kamilla Love, BooBoo, Radio Ahlee, and The Lioness.
The Artist Collective, The Cedar’s first-ever multicultural, multi-genre music collective in the organization’s 30-year history, consists of Ritika Ganguly, Greg Grease, Harbi, Ifrah Mansour, Julian Manzara, and Dameun Maurice Strange. Read all about their focus projects taking place this fall and winter!
Sequoyah Murray is a vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Atlanta, Georgia - and he’s only 22. Though compared to Arthur Russell’s and ANOHNI’s work, Murray offers up his own eclectic art-pop sound, blending acrobatic vocals with buzzing synths, polyrhythms from East and West Africa, RnB, and Neo-Soul. Instead of fragmentation, there is wholeness as Murray presents listeners with his fullest, most open, and authentic self.
Samite, one of East Africa’s most acclaimed flutists, is known for his smooth vocals accompanied by kalimba, marimba, and litungu. Read on to learn about his musical and cultural influences, his thoughts on resilience, and stories from his world travels. Catch Samite live at The Cedar on October 9th.
If you don’t have a reservation to see Lankum and Kim So Ra tonight (Tuesday, September 24th) or to 47SOUL and Afrotronix tomorrow (Wednesday, September 25th) and want to attend the shows, PLEASE STILL COME! It is very, very likely that we will have room for you.
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.
