Live music, art openings, lectures, and screenings across Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Updated daily.
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Bia Ferreira is a poet and activist who describes her music as “MMP , Música de Mulher Preta (Black Woman Music).” Her music contains elements of soul, reggae, blues, funk, R&B, and gospel. The Cedar is thrilled to welco
Slow Joy and PONY
Dusty The Kid and Ross Thorn
VISION ARCADE and Callback
Member Events
Have you ever wanted to peek behind the scenes at the Cedar? Learn more about how to participate at our venue by attending our monthly Volunteer Orientation led by volunteer coordinator Jared Hemming!
American Sharks and Pink Fuzz
Teacher Events
Accordion-wielding Chilean songstress Pascuala Ilabaca is a true hidden gem in Latin American and World Music genres. A favorite in the new scene of young Chilean singer-songwriters, her music is rooted in traditional so
Latter and bosses
Haley E Rydell
Talks and Lectures
Canadian folk singer Garnet Rogers joins us for a night of “literate, passionate, highly sensitive, and deeply purposeful” songwriting.
Mock Media
Night Audit
Hiding Places
Gatlin
Free Thursday Nights
Free Thursday Nights
That Handsome Devil celebrates 20 years since their debut EP with support from Human Zoo. Based in Brooklyn, by way of Boston, the band blends rock, funk, cabaret, surf, rhythm and blues, rockabilly, and psychedelia. The
Eternal, Dying Remains and Another Enemy
From Indian Lakes and Flooding
Sway Wild
J Solomon and Devvy Dub
Jenny Don’t and the Spurs’ sound has been described as honky tonk, country & western, garage rock, and cowpunk. Emerging from the Pacific Northwest with a fierce DIY ethos, the band independently released the majority of
HIDE and The Treasury
Bandits on the Run
Tchotchke
Free Events
Eli Winter is a virtuosic guitar player, for fans of William Tyler and Yasmin Williams. Luke Schneider’s pedal steel has graced recordings by Orville Peck, Margo Price, and more. Deep listening and cosmic grooves abound
Beemer
Freak Slug
Nevertel and Orthodox
Free Events
Uni Boys
hallpass
judith
Joan of Profile
Kiernan
Scorched Waves
Sam Prekop is a pillar of the Chicago underground community, best known for his work with the Sea and Cake. In 2022, Prekop reunited with former Sea and Cake bandmate John McEntire for the release of Sons of, an album of
Wussy
Philadelphia pop-folk songwriter Carsie Blanton takes her cues from legends like Nina Simone, Cleo Brown, Joni Mitchell and John Prine. She’s a ferocious wordsmith who pulls no punches on her 2024 full-length After the R
INOHA
Hailey James
Twin Seas
Donovan Woods
The Point.
Join the Phoenix Flight Studio students for an evening celebrating dance, community and radical joy. The night starts with explosive aerial performances on lyra, trapeze and hammock, followed by hard-hitting, and clackin
Truman Sinclair
Ken Pomeroy
Jordan Patterson
RiGBY
Border CrosSing transforms into a full-fledged salsa band in this joyful, family-friendly program featuring a vibrant rhythm section and our amazing vocalists, joined by members of our community chorus Heritage Choir, fo
Luhh Dyl
Woolly Mack
The Drowns and Menstrual Tramps
Facing and Sandpaper
Babehoven
Scandinavian duo Smerz “flits deftly between genres , dream pop, glitchy electro, power ballads, shoegaze, even shades of trip-hop , whipping up all these textures into a sonic soufflé that is uniquely their own.” Vogue
Call Me Fritz and Obadiah Gamble
Alex Amen
Celebrate the start of Summer with The Kickoff, a free Summer kickoff party on The Cedar’s outdoor patio.
Nourished By Time
Clean Plate Club and Matcha Fever
Portland-based guitarist and composer Marisa Anderson’s albums meld American traditional musics from blues, gospel, country, folk, and jazz to circus music, minimalism, improvisation, and drone. She’s recorded for esteem
Agnes Uncaged
The Qalanjo Project Presents What We Pass Between Us: On Mothers, Daughters, and Becoming is a curated evening of short films that centers the intimate, complex, and often unspoken relationships between mothers and daugh
Jordan Smart
Cecilia Castleman
L.A. Witch
Fluorescents
Brooklyn-based indie rocker Moon Walker explores themes of capitalism, religion, and warfare in his music, a message that has him selling out venues across the country. This is his first time performing at the Cedar, cel
Turn Turn Turn returns to The Cedar for their first full band show since the release of their third full-length album, All Hat, No Cattle, joined by the string collective Triple Fiddle.
Joseph Arthur is a storied songwriter, first signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World label in the mid-90s. In 2010, he joined forces with Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison to form the folk supergroup Fistful of Mercy. He’s join
Noise Party 14 featuring BIZLANG (Alana Horton, Christian Erickson), Dracala Gril! (Alan Sparhawk, Haley Fohr), Shahghasemi/Ylvisaker (Jeremy & Max Ylvisaker, Aida Shahghasemi), Robert Lehmann & Toby Ramaswamy, starflowe
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek are internationally recognized for their unique and infectious sound that combines Anatolian folk with psychedelia, pop and soul influences.
Mohanad Elshieky is a New York-based, Libyan-born comedian who made his national TV debut on Conan, has been featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Don’t Tell Comedy, Comedy Central, This American Life, and has
Dinkytown: A Tale of a Legendary Village tells the story of a unique village that has served as a small downtown for the University of Minnesota for over 150 years. Bob Dylan and Vice Presidents Hubert Humphrey and Walte
SOLIDARITY IN STEREO: A benefit concert for TakeAction Minnesota's organizing featuring jeremy messersmith, Robyn Jamner, Salty Fears, and Brass Solidarity.
John C. Van Orman and Adam Helwin are singer-songwriter neighbors in the bucolic countryside of southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless region, a place of unglaciated hills, fertile soil, and clear-running trout streams where
Transcending genres and trends, the Hot 8 Brass Band have performed and collaborated with the likes of Jon Batiste, Blind Boys of Alabama, Basement Jaxx, George Ezra and Alice Russell, and provided live support for Mos D
Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter and former frontman of The Ugly Americans and The Scabs, Bob Schneider is one of the most-celebrated musicians in the live music capital. Combining diverse styles, Schneider’s music
Inner Spaces invites audiences on a transcendent musical journey, blending ancestral and futuristic sounds, acoustic and electronic elements, and global traditions. Led by Amir ElSaffar and Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, this c
Indo-Canadian songwriter and producer Alysha Brilla is a 3x Juno-nominated artist. Guided by heritage and imagination, Brilla sculpts sonic constellations where the ancestral meets the electric.
Mexico City’s Sonido Gallo Negro fuse cumbias with psychedelic tropicalia to create hypnotic, dancefloor-ready sounds.
Best known as the frontman for indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Alec Ounsworth's intimate Piano & Voice tour showcases his songs in their purest form.
Horse Lords’ lengthy, hypnotic, polyrhythmic pieces draw from Krautrock, Afrobeat, and Appalachian folk traditions. The Baltimore-based quartet formed in 2010 and has spent the last 16 years touring relentlessly in the D
The Fanoos Ensemble features four brilliant Afghan musicians who are unable to perform inside Afghanistan today, as the Taliban has banned all music. Now living in the US, the ensemble performs a revue of Afghan culture
From the African drums to the dazzling colors of the Aurora Borealis, Aurora do Samba takes the audience on a vibrant journey through the history of samba , from sacred Afro-Brazilian ancestry and the rhythm of capoeira
First Avenue presents Wild Child
Magic Tuber Stringband probes the undercurrents of the landscapes around them, their music reflecting time spent living across the Southeast and studying its regional folk traditions and natural histories.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is the most gloriously unclassifiable American band in existence. Wendy Eisenberg is a singer-songwriter, improviser, and virtuoso guitarist. From art-rock and noise metal to free improv and frea
Micky and the Motorcars hail from Austin, Texas, by way of Stanley, Idaho. Brothers Micky and Gary Braun are the sons of Western Swing musician Muzzie Braun, and along with their brothers Willy and Cody (Reckless Kelly),
English songwriter Fink brings his trio to The Cedar Cultural Center for an intimate performance to celebrate their ninth album, the recently announced The City Is Coming To Erase It All.
Afro Dead is a musical collective formed in 2022 by Aaron Feder to reimagine the music of the Grateful Dead in Afro-Pop styles, such as soukous, Afrobeat, high-life, reggae and more. Featuring members of Chicago’s Alma A
First Avenue presents Aldous Harding
SYML is the solo venture of Seattle artist Brian Fennell. Welsh for “simple”, he makes music that taps into the instincts that drive us to places of sanctuary, whether that be a place or a person.
“After a few listens to the record it becomes apparent that Chicago Farmer has a refreshingly firm grip on where he comes from. The songs are covered to the elbows in dirt from the fields and smell of the sweaty factory