The Cedar Presents
BLACK MARKET BRASS x OBI ORIGINAL with PURPLE FUNK METROPOLIS and BMB DJs
Friday, December 5, 2025 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
All Ages
Standing
$20 Advance, $25 Day of Show
*For Cedar Presented shows, a $4 facility fee is included in the ticket price (Ticket fee info here).
This is a standing show with an open floor. To request seating or other access accommodations, please go to our Access Page.
For Cedar presented shows, online ticket sales typically end one hour before the door time, and then, based on availability, tickets will be available at the door. Tickets purchased at the door will include a $1 Eventbrite fee.
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Black Market Brass is back again to showcase their continuing collaboration with Minnesota’s own Obi Original. Following a sold out night celebrating the initial release, ‘Battle Ready,’ they’re returning just as hard-hitting as they’ve started it. It’s going to be a dance-heavy evening making sure to turn the heat up on a cold MN night.
Black Market Brass
Psychedelic wasteland rascals, Black Market Brass is a Minneapolis-based group performing their own brand of originally composed afropsych music. Taking their cues from the godfathers, the band draws on complex polyrhythmic percussion, driving bass lines, dizzying guitar interplay, rolling keys, and room-commanding brass.
"Black Market Brass’ third LP Hox proves to be their best yet. By breaking down their original formula they created an entirely new one that still sounds undeniably BMB, but more advanced." – Ryan Dillon, GLIDE MAGAZINE
“Hox is a reminder that Black Market Brass is still on fire, and getting hotter and hotter with every new body of work” – Tone Scott, GOLDMINE MAGAZINE
“Black Market Brass are taking the Afro Beat scene by storm…” – Flea Market Funk
“The band’s stamina was unbelievable — from the moment the curtain lifted to the end of the very last note, there was hardly a moment without music. The result was a continuous wall of Afrobeat that washed over the crowd and felt like a tangible force flowing from the speakers for those in the front few rows...Black Market Brass were a powerhouse of sound and energy.” – The Current
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Purple Funk Metropolis
Purple Funk Metropolis is a charismatic seven-piece instrumental band with a raw sound inspired by soul, jazz, funk, and fusion. Jamming, writing, recording, and performing since 2016 has honed their sound; sharpened it like a blade that could make an angel's ears bleed purple blood. But an angel wouldn't care. Because the angels, too, groove with abandon to the infectious earworm grooves. The maniacal horn lines atop the four-on-the-floor pulse. The hypnotic thump that marionettes the feet. The wandering, nostalgic shred that finds its way to the heavens. Indeed in this world and the next, it is known– PFM's energy gets the whole room dancing.
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