Zoë Keating is a Canadian-born cellist and composer continually experimenting within the realm of contemporary classical music. Merging her love of music and technology, Keating records layer upon layer of cello with breathtaking, cinematic results.

Vocalist Sofia Rei and multi-instrumentalist JC Maillard make avant-jazz, folk influenced music that pushes at the confines of what world music can be. Rei grew up singing classically and soaking in the Buenos Aires, Argentina punk scene. Now, she explores traditions of South American folklore, jazz, and electronic sounds.

Author, columnist, and comedian Steve Hofstetter is often called the hardest working man in show-business. With all due respect to the late James Brown. Steve is known for his unapologetic comedic flair, sometimes getting into verbal spats with hecklers at his comedy shows.

Best known as the frontman for the Walkmen, Hamilton Leithauser embarked on a solo career once that band went on hiatus following its 2011​. Hamilton’s forthcoming album was entirely written, recorded, and produced by Hamilton himself, and is due out sometime in 2020 through Glassnote Records.

Are you a musician, sound artist, or composer looking to learn more about how grants can support your art, and trying to figure out how to get support on writing grants? Join The Cedar, American Composers Forum, Minnesota Music Coalition, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Springboard for the Arts, and past grantees at a free mixer introducing you to some of the grant support available to Minnesota musicians!

Calling to mind Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke at times, along with influences from Foals, Joy Orbison, and Gorillaz, Bakar is making a music all his own. The 26-year-old London native’s latest, Will You Be My Yellow, features his gently plucked guitar, his part-sung, part-spoken words reverberating at bassy Leonard Cohen frequencies.

Having royally shaken up South African music with their powerful blend of “Africangungungu”—BCUC’s Afro-psychedelic mix of a cappella street music, funk, soul, hip-hop, and rock-and-roll—the seven-piece Soweto band is ready to rock Minneapolis audiences for the first time with their inimitable live energy.

One of the most unique and brilliant acoustic guitar players of our time, Pierre Bensusan is a French-Algerian guitarist, singer, and composer. His music defies classification, crossing boundaries between world, classical, jazz, traditional, and folk, calling on Brazilian, Arabic, and French influences throughout the journey.

Hailing from LA, Inner Wave is an indie rock band mixing influences like the psychedelic pop of Ariel Pink and the poetry of Julian Casablancas of The Strokes. Chicago-based Divino Niño will open with their rhythmic, soulful, and bilingual flavored indie rock with Latin American roots, shrouded in woozy guitars and hazy vocals.

As a uillean piper and Irish flutist, Paddy Keenan clearly proves his virtuosity with his flowing, open-fingered style of playing, while demonstrating a sensitivity when he plays slower, evocative melodies. One of the founding members of the legendary group The Bothy Band, Paddy is one of the greatest living uilleann pipe players.

Juana Molina is a singer/songwriter from Argentina whose atmospheric blend of folk, electronica, and experimental pop have brought her international acclaim. In 2019 Juana released ForFun, a joyful EP with 4 of her songs re-arranged and performed in a punkish mood, and this tour centers that work.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of his album The Reluctant Graveyard, jeremy messersmith returns to The Cedar (also host to the Reluctant Graveyard CD release show in 2010). Accompanied by his full band and a string quartet, jeremy will perform the record in its entirety, and other death-themed songs from his catalog.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of his album The Reluctant Graveyard, jeremy messersmith returns to The Cedar (also host to the Reluctant Graveyard CD release show in 2010). Accompanied by his full band and a string quartet, jeremy will perform the record in its entirety, and other death-themed songs from his catalog.

The Jimmy Dore Show is a comedy lifeline for people on the left and right (but definitely NOT the center) who are sick of bought politicians and gaslighting corporate journalists manufacturing consent for wars. A certified YouTube sensation, The Jimmy Dore Show boasts over 200 million views and over 680,00 subscribers.