The Cedar Cultural Center aims to promote intercultural appreciation and understanding through the presentation of global music and dance. Their annual Global Arts Festival offers accessible, free, and family-friendly opportunities to hear innovative and unique artists from across the globe.
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Opening: This is Minnesota’s Legacy: A look at the organizations and people who have benefitted from Minnesota’s unique Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.
BRITT AAMODT: Cedar Cultural Center resides in the heart of Minneapolis’s West Bank but its sound is international. Since 1989, the intimate concert venue has brought in performers, singing in different languages, on a wide array of instruments, with styles that defy genre. Sfx music different instruments, music
ROBERT LEHMANN: Our aim is to promote intercultural appreciation and understanding through the presentation of global music and dance.
AAMODT: Robert Lehmann has booked artists for the Cedar and its annual festival that hits town every fall.
ROBERT LEHMANN: Our Global Roots Festival is a free three-day festival that happens at the end of every September, featuring six international artists and then also US-based artists that are speaking to different international cultures.
AAMODT: The Cedar gets assistance from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to fill those three days with an international roster of talent.
LEHMANN: Music that is really richly rooted in different cultures from around the world but then also is innovating.
AAMODT: The best thing? You don’t need a passport for this world tour of music.
Closing: Minnesota’s Legacy is a production of AMPERS, with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, more at ampers dot org.