Arkansauce calls forth melodies of the Ozark Mountains' rolling hills and raging rivers with their distinct blend of newgrass. Each member of the quartet sings lead and harmony parts as well as contributes to the lyrics, which offer authentic, intelligent songwriting with hard-hitting hooks - bending the rules and blurring the lines between bluegrass, folk, americana, with notes of country, blues, and funk.  Local old time/bluegrass project, Steam Machine kicks the night off!

Richard Shindell is a New Yorker living in Argentina: a craftsman and a true wizard of song. He’s played for coins in the Paris subway, and he’s studied for the priesthood. His gift for profound storytelling songs drew him into the world of folk music. Richard Shindell champions the downtrodden, exalts the disaffected, skewers prejudice, war, and religious intolerance. Richard announced his retirement several years ago, but he’s back, and we’re glad to be part of his Spring tour!

Last seen here at The Cedar in 2010, Swedish world music icon Ale Möller returns to the US to perform with American roots music hero Bruce Molsky! The duo’s music is the joyful confluence of a wide swath of cultures through their unique lens on fiddle, banjo, guitar, flutes, and Ale’s own version of the mandola (which features six string courses, quarter tone frets and a sound unlike any other.) Their reunion really is a deep musical conversation between two old friends whose tunes and songs have so much to say, to bring people together and to shine light on the things we have in common.

The Cedar is honored to debut Brazil-based Argentine composer and accordionist Alejandro Brittes. Interpreting chamamé, a music and dance genre forged from Baroque and Indigenous Guaraní influences of southern South America. Chamamé has been declared as an "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO."

The Cedar celebrates composer Ted Olsen and the Violette Ensemble's "Violette" - the new album of chamber works released on Shifting Paradigm Records.

"Peter Mulvey is a forthright singer and songwriter. He’s made a habit of mining emotion by sharing songs that avoid painting pretty pictures simply for the sake of wooing his listeners with an upward gaze. Yet it’s that very honesty that makes his music so compelling, given that it’s flush with realities that are often simply too difficult to avoid." — American Songwriter

30 years into a prolific career as a genre and gender-defying songwriter, Melissa Ferrick continues to disrupt normative categorization. Indie, Alternative, Folk, Punk….Melissa Ferrick won’t be labeled. With disarming wit and raw vulnerability, every lyric in Ferrick’s immense catalog is an invitation to confession or catharsis.

Tina Schlieske is joining Freaque in their return to The Cedar in support of Unite 2 Fight Paralysis, a Minneapolis based non profit fighting to restore federal cuts to spinal cord injury research by the current Administration.

Join us for an experiment pt II. an additional offering -  the second part of the experience.

Summer at The Cedar #1 with SINKANE - Soul with the rhythms of Sudan mixed with pop, funk, and JOY!

Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves create a sound that is adventurous, masterful, and original, as they expand on the eccentricities of old songs, while never losing sight of what makes them endure.

The Cedar is honored to welcome MARYNA KRUT back, during this critical moment. With her gorgeous voice and bandura, she brings the story and culture of Ukraine to our stage. 

“Not only is she a virtuoso on her 65-string harp, but she has a voice from the heavens, covering all the colors of the human vocal rainbow, seemingly effortlessly.” - Banning Eyre, AFROPOP

Summer at The Cedar #2 - Live from Columbia, the heir to cumbia, YEISON LANDERO and his band!

Shamarr Allen is the True Orleans Experience!

U.S. Cultural Ambassador and "musician Shamarr Allen played the National Anthem for President Obama, traveled the world for the State Department and lived in Atlanta for three years, but there’s only one place he calls home: New Orleans." - Forbes