A spooktacular Sunday Halloween show with Keep for Cheap, Huhroon, Allergen, and creeping charlie! Plus a costume contest!

A delightful pre-Halloween co-bill for all! Celebrating Dylan Hicks & The Small Screens' new release, Airport Sparrows, and the rare special gathering of Aby Wolf & Eric Mayson who will open the show.

DOMi & JD Beck are a jazz duo consisting of French keyboardist DOMi Louna and American drummer JD Beck. The two met in 2018 and have since worked with Thundercat, Anderson.Paak, Herbie Hancock, Eric Andre, Ariana Grande, Earl Sweatshirt, Bruno Mars and many more. They released their first single, "Smile," and debut album, "NOT TiGHT," as a duo in 2022 and we are beyond excited to host their Minneapolis headlining debut on our Cedar stage!

This free, all-ages Halloween dance party with a 90s vibe that is bound to be epic! Expect live bands performing 90s covers, dance to your favorite 90s music videos provided by The 90s Preservation Society, and win the Halloween costume contest with your spook-tacular attire.

This performance is a part of KFAI’s Minneculture “Live From Minnesota” series, and is being recorded for future broadcast on KFAI 90.3 FM, and video will also be available on KFAI's Minneculture YouTube page. Support for Live from Minnesota on KFAI comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

The local Manouche jazz group Hot Club Mania Quartet is going to light up The Cedar stage! they'll be joined by The Red Hot Django Peppers! Manouche jazz is a blend of traditional Roma music and swing jazz. Originating in Paris in the early 1930s, it was first popularized by the Quintette du Hot Club de France, led by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli.

The Cedar, The Current & Theater Mu present: "Crazy Broke Asians" - a Celebration of Asian Excellence in the Twin Cities’ Music Community featuring: Kiss the Tiger, Diane, Mayda, D'Lourdes, Vulgar Tongue and Tekk Nikk.

Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee are two kindred spirits who first met on the banks of the Mississippi while touring the Midwest festival circuit. Born and raised in Arkansas, Winter found herself drawn to the evergreens and damp air of the Pacific Northwest, as well as the boundless music scene of Olympia, Washington. She released three solo records on Olympia-based indie label, K Records, and performed in ramblin’ folk bands and anarchic punk bands before serendipitously meeting Palmer T. Lee in 2013. Lee had built his first banjo when he was 19 from pieces he inherited and began cutting his teeth fronting Minneapolis string bands before convincing Winter that they should form a banjo duo. Named for a mutually beloved John Hartford song, The Lowest Pair, the duo will celebrate the release of their latest album, Horse Camp, on our stage. Welcome home!

The Waco Brothers was formed by Jon Langford of the Mekons. The group grew out of Langford's wish to play more country-influenced music as the Mekons concentrated more on a punk sound. The band recorded the first of its studio albums in 1995. That album, Waco Express: Live & Kickin' at Schuba's Tavern is a concert recording which Ken Tucker, the pop music critic for NPR's Fresh Air and editor-at-large at Entertainment Weekly, described as "country as it should be written and played, with a long memory for roadhouse honky-tonks rather than TV-ready music videos."

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On their first US tour since 2018, the Tuareg quintet will be celebrating their third studio album, Aboogi, at The Cedar. The diversity, beauty, and struggles of life in Imarhan’s home city of Tamanrasset in Southern Algeria are reflected in the songs on Aboogi, the first album the band recorded on their native soil in a studio they built themselves. It is as serene and open as the desert it emerged from.

Tinariwen, the world-renown and Grammy-award winning Tuareg group from the Sahara Desert, are bringing back to The Cedar the sounds that are impossible to capture in the studio since most were created by desert fires, in community, and for the community.

The Cedar welcomes the return of quintessential folk singer, David Wilcox, for an autumnal acoustic evening of good feels. 2022 Kerrville Folk Festival 'New Folk Songwriting' contest winner, Jean Rohe, opens the show.

10,000 Laughs is returning for their 10th year October 6-8, 2022! A comic-centered, artist-run stand up comedy festival with heart. Since 2011, 10,000 Laughs has been bringing national headliners and unknown talent together with 35+ shows and nearly 80 comedians, it’s a comedy festival unlike anything else in Minnesota! Dulcé Sloan closes out the night ton October 8th.

10,000 Laughs is returning for their 10th year October 6-8, 2022! A comic-centered, artist-run stand up comedy festival with heart. Since 2011, 10,000 Laughs has been bringing national headliners and unknown talent together with 35+ shows and nearly 80 comedians, it’s a comedy festival unlike anything else in Minnesota! Ashley Gavin headlines on October 8th with two shows (this is the late show).

10,000 Laughs is returning for their 10th year October 6-8, 2022! A comic-centered, artist-run stand up comedy festival with heart. Since 2011, 10,000 Laughs has been bringing national headliners and unknown talent together with 35+ shows and nearly 80 comedians, it’s a comedy festival unlike anything else in Minnesota! Ashley Gavin headlines on October 8th with two shows (this is the earlier show).

10,000 Laughs is returning for their 10th year October 6-8, 2022! A comic-centered, artist-run stand up comedy festival with heart. Since 2011, 10,000 Laughs has been bringing national headliners and unknown talent together with 35+ shows and nearly 80 comedians, it’s a comedy festival unlike anything else in Minnesota! Jackie Kashian headlines on October 7th.

Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings are teaming up again for a new album with a tour behind it. On August 12, 2022, the collaborating artists released Love Is The Only Thing via Righteous Babe Records.

SistaStrings, a string and vocal duo from Milwaukee, moved to Nashville last year. The duo – Monique and Chauntee Ross – have performed with Grammy-winners Brandi Carlisle and Allison Russell at venues around the country. Monique, who plays cello, and Chauntee, who plays violin, are both classically trained string players who blend classical, gospel and R&B genres in their music. Mulvey is a Milwaukee-based artist who writes and performs folk music. He’s released 19 albums with his most recent solo LP being 2019’s There Is Another World.

Dynamic and texture-heavy experimental media artist William Basinski presents his reflective soundscapes. His most recent release is “…on reflection,” a collaborative album with Janek Schaefer. In Pitchfork’s review of the project they shared that “the experimental musicians’ first full-length collaboration gives the impression of life, fertility, and verdancy. It’s one of the most sumptuous works of either artist’s career.”

Summer Cypher and The Cedar are excited to welcome you to this year's final outdoor celebration of hip-hop culture in all its facets of music, dance, graffiti, DJing, and MCing. Returning to the neighborhood where the genesis of Summer Cypher took place, there will be music flowing throughout the day, as well as live spray painting and a variety of vendors to check out. Come on out to The Cedar plaza for a low-key, easy time and catch artist performances and live painting; grab some merch, food, and drinks from local small businesses; and connect with each other around a love for hip-hop.

The Cedar and Hennepin Theatre Trust welcome acclaimed Ethiopian Israeli musician Gili Yalo and his band for a Saturday night dance party of modern psychedelic sounds, Ethiopian roots, funk, jazz and a deep soulful good time.

Come join us out on The Cedar plaza for a West Bank Block Party before we all head inside for the winter! We’re bringing together artists, community members, and organizations to celebrate the hard work going on in Cedar-Riverside to move our community in a positive direction. Using art as a catalyst to bring people together, we aim to uplift the diversity of our community, while shining a light on our similarities and opportunities for connection.

Head on down to this free event on Saturday, October 1st - you won’t want to miss the performances, the food, and the folks who make this neighborhood a cultural gem of Minneapolis. We’ve got a wide range of local community artists sharing their music and art throughout the day including Lady Midnight, Hassan Shahid, DJ Fawzi, Jada Brown, Deeq Abdi, Buranburr dancing and a short preview set from Fanaka Nation.

Make your own West Bank day of it, hopping around to local restaurants to grab food and drinks. And for the adventurous among you, join us for our ticketed show in the evening in The Cedar hall with outstanding Ethiopian Israeli artist Gili Yalo who swirls together funk, psych, jazz, roots artist and local hip-hop, Afrotrap rising star, Fanaka Nation with his full band - come celebrate!