A nonprofit listening room that has been booking world music, folk, and roots artists from across the globe since 1989. The room is small, the sound is excellent, and the curation reaches places few other American venues bother with. A West Bank institution.
Standing or seated depending on the show — check the listing. The room is small enough that there is no bad spot. The West Bank is a real neighborhood; stick around after.
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Oregon-based comedy troupe Puppeteers for Fears specializes in original horror and science fiction musicals performed with puppets.
Mexico City’s Sonido Gallo Negro fuse cumbias with psychedelic tropicalia to create hypnotic, dancefloor-ready sounds.
Summer at The Cedar kicks off with Wic Whitney, who creates an eclectic, genre-spanning blend of hip-hop, folk, and funk, brought together by soulful vocals and thoughtful lyricism that invite you to …
Fabiano do Nascimento is a Brazilian-American guitarist, composer, producer & arranger deeply rooted in Brazilian heritage & unique sound.
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 r…
Closed for private event. Interested in renting The Cedar Listening Room for your event? Email booking@thecedar.org.
Featuring duets from Davu Seru & deVon Russel Gray, Michael Gallope & Mary Hanson Scott, and Dameun Strange & Leyna Marika Papach.
Originally on a career path towards social work, Olive Klug utilizes their gifts for singing and storytelling as a means to accomplish lifelong goals of inspiring emotional catharsis and social change…
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 revu…
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 Huber…
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…
The Foxgloves are an all-female Midwestern Americana band from the Twin Cities that meets you wherever you are and pulls you in.
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 histo…
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 …
TAIGA is an electronic duo from Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, blending traditional sounds with modern techniques.
Danish musician, composer, and producer ML Buch makes her Minnesota debut at The Cedar this Summer. Layering clean, 7-string guitar tones in open tunings over ethereal digital landscapes, ML Buch crea…
Daniel Villarreal moves fluidly from psychedelia and jazz to Latin rock, fusion, funk, blues, ballads, salsa, and soul.
Movie Couple Therapy: Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean.Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright dive into a treasure trove of relationship dynamics …
Dustin Laurenzi and Matt Gold, key collaborators in the Chicago creative scene and with genre-spanning artists such as Bill Callahan and Makaya McCraven, step forward on Devotional Fade (We Jazz Recor…
The music of Creekbed Carter Hogan (he/they) is a quiet act of defiance made at the end of your rope. It is the warm feeling of solidarity coursing through your body as you link arms with strangers. I…
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 Co…
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.
Minneapolis-based quintet Rabeca is celebrating the release of their third full-length album with Full Catholic and Third Date, plus surprise musical guests. Join us as we tear down the old, let it gr…
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…
Nashville’s psychedelic punk-grass rockers, Sicard Hollow, grew up sick of any existing institution telling them who and what to be.
Son Lux strives to question assumptions about how music is made and construct their own from a molecular level, cultivating a musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites. Over two dec…
The Cedar returns to the Minnesota State Fair’s International Bazaar stage for the 4th year of our Global Get Together. Wednesday, September 2, Minnesota’s very own OBI ORGINAL AND THE BLACK ATLANTICS…
The Cedar returns to the Minnesota State Fair’s International Bazaar stage for the 4th year of our Global Get Together. Wednesday, September 2, Minnesota’s very own OBI ORGINAL AND THE BLACK ATLANTICS…
Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson aka Yellow Swans carved an influential path through America’s experimental music underground, at the axis of noise, psychedelia, industrial, drone, and hardcore…
Maria Chávez, Shahzad Ismaily (Arooj Aftab, Ceramic Dog) and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) came together as a trio for the first time for a show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in May 2025. That debut performanc…
Bear Ghost is an Adventure Rock band that fuses fun and quirky musicianship with complex melodies, phat harmonies, heavy riffitude, and pop structure to deliver a sound purposely crafted to fill all b…
Norwegian indie-pop songwriter SONDRE LERCHE celebrates the release of his 11th album at The Cedar.
First Avenue presents Aldous Harding
What if 40 minutes of instrumental music made by two friends passing files across state lines could capture the range of human experience, or at least a disproportionate chunk of it,worry and camarade…
Gordi’s trademark is tender, cerebral pop songs full of poignant moments and surprising amounts of joy. Sean Carey’s songs explore themes of nature and sustainability, draw on jazz roots, and feature …
The award-winning call-in advice show Perfect Person is back on tour! Miles Bonsignore expertly solves your morally ambiguous problems live on stage with his special guests, and explores what it means…
TaikoArts Midwest presents TaikoGroove , a genre-defying collision of taiko tradition and industrial power. Ensō Daiko and Savage Aural Hotbed join forces for an electrifying night of high-energy perc…
From the heart of Brittany comes a duo redefining traditional sound. Accordionist Tangi Le Gall-Carré, founding member of the iconic band Startijenn and a key figure of the Breton scene for decades, j…
We Intend To Cause Havoc (W.I.T.C.H.) are progenitors of the Zamrock scene. Fusing Western rock and rhythm & blues with traditional African sounds, W.I.T.C.H. were among Zambia's most popular and infl…
Copeland is an American indie rock band formed in 2001 in Lakeland, Florida. Led by singer-songwriter, pianist and producer Aaron Marsh, the group is famous for its lush arrangements, rich keyboard te…
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.
Canadian songwriter Jesse Roper is a master at connecting his personal story and experiences to his songwriting - crafting narratives that hit on life's challenges and eccentricities - but that remain…
Portland, OR-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has forged a career singing personal songs of romantic intoxication, everyday vignettes, and social commentary that are often heavy on introspection an…
With a 20-year background studying polyphonic music around the world, the four members of Windborne share a vibrant energy onstage.
Called “one of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation” by The New York Times.“Teddy’s glorious tenor is bracing but warm and never showy.” The Associated Press. “Buoyant, soulful.” Billb…
Great Lake Swimmers founder Tony Dekker has always been akin to a wildlife photographer, often choosing to make records in unique surroundings with a connection to Ontario history. For the band’s late…
“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…