The Cedar Cultural Center
A nonprofit listening room on Cedar Avenue in Cedar-Riverside that presents music from around the world: folk and Americana, African and Nordic roots, and new and experimental music.
Evenitto's guide · Minneapolis–St. Paul
Concert venues in Minneapolis–St. Paul
From First Avenue and the 7th St Entry to the Turf Club, the Palace and the Cedar: the rooms that carry Twin Cities live music, with what makes each of them different.
The venues to know
First Avenue
A 1937 Greyhound bus depot that became a club in 1970. Prince filmed Purple Rain in its Mainroom, and the stars on its outside walls honor the artists who played there. Still independent, still booking bands most nights.
Minneapolis
7th St Entry
The small room in the First Avenue building, a club for a few hundred people where local bands and touring acts on their way up play.
Minneapolis
Fine Line
A Warehouse District club that opened in 1987, run by First Avenue since 2018: a mid-size room a few blocks down First Avenue from the Mainroom.
Turf Club
A 1940s dance hall on University Avenue in St. Paul's Midway, now a 350-capacity rock club run by First Avenue, with the Clown Lounge bar in the basement. Shows are strictly 21+.
Saint Paul
Palace Theatre
A downtown St. Paul vaudeville house from 1916, reopened in 2017 after a renovation. Owned by the city and run by First Avenue and JAM Productions, with a standing floor and seated balconies.
Minneapolis
The Fillmore Minneapolis
Live Nation's music hall in the North Loop, next to Target Field, opened in February 2020 with standing room for about 1,850.
Minneapolis
The Armory
A National Guard armory from 1936 downtown that spent years as a parking garage and reopened as a concert hall for the 2018 Super Bowl, with room for about eight thousand.
Minneapolis
Dakota
Jazz club and restaurant on Nicollet Mall. It opened in St. Paul in 1985 and moved downtown in 2003: jazz first, with soul, blues and gospel too.
Minneapolis
Icehouse
A music club and restaurant on Eat Street, open since 2012, with local and touring bands most nights.
Saint Paul
Amsterdam Bar & Hall
A bar and music hall at 6th and Wabasha in downtown St. Paul, with live music most nights, a long gin list and frites.
Saint Paul
Grand Casino Arena
St. Paul's arena, home of the Minnesota Wild, and the stop for the biggest tours. It was called the Xcel Energy Center until 2025.
Minneapolis
Target Center
The downtown Minneapolis arena of the Timberwolves and the Lynx, a short walk from First Avenue, for arena tours.
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