I first found Kassa Overall’s music via his hip-hop/jazz/soul/everything-but-the-kitchen sink 2020 LP “I Think I’m Good,” which succeeded at the blending of genres in a way most artists can only dream of. There is...
Ghanaian artist Ata Kak’s genre-bending Obaa Sima is one those albums that, when it was found decades after it’s original 1994 release and introduced to a larger audience than it received upon initial release,...
Photo coverage of Mdou Moctar and Pure Adult performing at the Cedar Cultural Center on 9/18/21
If you were at the September 2019 Les Filles De Illighadad show at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, you know it was a killer set from an amazing band who many of us...
Photo coverage of Rebecca Nichloson and Dua Saleh presenting their commission shows at the Cedar on 2/22/20
Photo coverage of Lucy Dacus at The Cedar Cultural Center on October 12, 2019 in Minneapolis touring in support of her 2018 gem “Historian” on Matador Records. Opening the evening were Sun June (Austin,...
Photo coverage of Afrotronix and 47Soul performing on the final night of the Cedar”s Global Roots Festival
Photo coverage of the 2nd annual Mother Goose’s Bedtime Stories concer at the Cedar Cultural Center on 8/31/19
