The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Avenue South will be beginning its 31st season with its annual Global Roots Festival coming in a few days. The free three-day event will present new international vocal artists.
On September 23, starting at 7:30, Les Filles De Illighadad, a female-led rock group featuring traditional Nigerien music, will bring driving rhythm, percussion, handclaps, and polyphonic resonant vocals that make up African melodies.
At 8:30 pm, the stage will feature Fidel Nadal, who will lead the Afro-Argentine rasta-punk band Todos Tus Mertos. They will be followed by the reggae trio Lumumba. Mr. Pauer, father of “electropico”, will join Nadal.
The second night will feature Kim So Ra-A’s “Sign of Rain”. Kim So Ra, a renowned Korean composer and percussionist, will present a program of wind instruments, projections, Koran zither, and percussion that will take the audience through a range of emotions. She will be followed at 8:30 pm by the four-piece Dublin group Lankum, playing dark, transcendental traditional folk music with contemporary nuances.
On September 25, the show will feature Afrotronix, a DJ that combines live drums, digital art, African urban dance and electronic music. He will be followed by 47SOUL, a group of Jordanian and Palestinian musicians presenting their interpretation of “Shamstep”, a fusion of electro-Arab dabke, hip-hop, and dubstep.
Patrons of the center may want to get some flyer printing done to get the word out about these performances.
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527 2nd Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
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Mon: 8:00 - 4:30
Tue: 8:00 - 4:30
Wed: 8:00 - 4:30
Thu: 8:00 - 4:30
Fri: 8:00 - 4:30
Sat: Closed
Sun: Closed