MarchFourth is a joy-inducing force of entertainment! Quite like The Cedar itself, MarchFourth celebrates over two decades of FUN! A larger-than-life group of 15 musicians, dancers and acrobats bringing a spirit of high-energy party. This band is your band. “Mighty, Explosive, Carnivalesque Brass Band Funk” ~New York Music Daily

First Avenue Presents the chart topping podcast, Ladies & Tangents - on tour with their "Camp Tangents" live program. Creating companionship by discussing anything and everything while almost certainly getting completely sidetracked along the way with, well, tangents!

Having separately played The Cedar with other co-bill partners, we are honored to present this pairing for the first time as they tour together in all of their acoustic glory. Peter Mulvey, self-described as a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur, and almost-poet since before he can remember...Susan Werner has earned a reputation as “one of the most innovative songwriters working today”. Together they make for a contemporary folk dream team for a Friday spring night!

Direct from Ames, Iowa it's Leslie Hall’s Live Show Spectacular.! Leslie has been making internet content since her return to the public eye in 2023 and she’s ready to share it with Minneapolis. New costumes, old costumes, new songs, old songs, she’s a Midwest Treasure who wants to put on a show all while sealed in a tub of gold spandex for all to see. Bringing friends from her Yarn House internet show and Midwest Diva Queens Dominique Cass and Ava Tremaine Cass.

QWANQWA , the Amharic word for “language", is an experimental, psychedelic, traditional, string based rock band that plays beloved and rare Ethiopian tunes with a unique twist! A highlight performance from our Global Roots Festival in 2022 - we are absolutely thrilled to welcome them back to our stage.

With his haunting, soulful voice, Blick Bassy has become one of Africa’s most inventive and distinctive singer-songwriters. Born in Cameroon, West Africa, he has worked in Brazil and is now based in a village in northern France. It’s here that he has developed a style mixing African, Latin and American musical influences with lyrics in the Cameroonian Bassa language. We have been working on this confirmation for over a year and we are absolutely thrilled to host Blick Bassy's Cedar debut and the unveiling of his stunning 2023 release Mádibá (which means "water").

An immersive concert experience that illuminates hidden Asian American histories through folk songs, sound pieces, live projections, and storytelling - The Cedar is delighted to welcome back NO-NO BOY!

The Cedar is honored to host the debut of HATIS NOIT: Japanese vocal performer hailing from distant Shiretoko in Hokkaido who now resides in London. Hatis Noit's accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. Chama Devora to open.

The one & only Minneapolis Afrobeats Dance Party is back!! Celebrating our 35th Anniversary in full shake body festive form, charismatic host/Culture Rapper, Fananka Nation brings his fusion of hip-hop, African and other worldly sonic delights together with his band and DJ King Swank. This version of the Dance Party features the very special performance of DYNAMQ, aka The Nile Crocodile, The Sudanese Son, DJ Dynamq. Get your dancing shoes on for this one!

The cutting-edge fiddle and cello explorations of Scottish and global music partnership of Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas returns to The Cedar! "… you would think they'd been playing together for centuries. While his fiddle dances, her cello throbs darkly or plucks puckishly. Then [Haas] opens her cello's throat, joining Fraser in soaring sustains, windswept refrains, and sudden, jazzy explosions. Their sound is as urbane as a Manhattan midnight, and as wild as a Clackmannan winter." — Boston Globe

Reimagining traditional music from Canada, France, and America, The Cedar welcomes the debut of Myriam Gendron. Critically lauded, the Canadian songwriter features thoughtful and transformative interpretations of traditional folk music as both a meditation on the past and a novel step forward. Deeply aligned with our programming as we celebrate and commune in this 35th Anniversary year. Minneapolis guitarist/banjoist/sonic alchemist, Paul Metzger, opens the evening - showcasing a maximalist aesthetic and a tinkerer's sense of adventure in his rambling, percussive solo works.