JPP and Trio Brasileiro

Headline act Terakaft canceled its U.S. tour last week, but the Global Roots Festival goes on at Cedar Cultural Center. Tuesday’s headliner is JPP, a fiddle-dominated ensemble from Finland that balances its string-driven Celtic-Slavic-Finnish folk mesh with the harmonium of Timo Alakotila. Opening is Trio Brasileiro, an exciting new threesome of guitar, mandolin, and percussion that plays in the buoyant, urban Brazilian style known as choro, full of fast-paced, syncopated grooves. (7:30 p.m. Tue., free.) Wednesday, Movits! is a Swedish casserole of hip-hop beats and swing grooves who got their big break on “The Colbert Report.” They’re paired with MC Rai, a politically earnest Tunisian transplanted to San Francisco who plays slick yet heartfelt music that mixes hip-hop with the catchy, mutable rhythms of North African rai. (7:30 p.m. Wed., free.) Closing night features M.A.K.U. Soundsystem, an octet of mostly native Colombians now living in Brooklyn, who combine everything from cumbia to reggae to Afrobeat and hip-hop into a rollicking, funky porridge. Mexican singer-songwriter Rana Santacruz opens. (7:30 p.m. Wed., free.) Britt Robson