Minnesota Zoo summer concert lineup is out
The annual Music in the Zoo concert series provides one of the top music venues here in the Twins, combining a comfortably relaxed capacity (couple thousand at most, I believe), above-average sitelines, and the great outdoors of Minnesota summer. Try as they might, no one ever succeeded in building a large-scale outdoor amphitheatre in this market, but the zoo in Apple Valley does a decent job of filling the void.
The only down side: tickets for many of these shows go very fast. Wait until the weather is warm and you may have waited too long. I’ve learned this the hard way.
The series gets started June 12 with Aimee Mann and continues every few days through August 30 when Billy Bob Thornton (yes, that Billy Bob) takes the stage. A few dates in particular tweaked my interest:
- Alt-country rocker legend Lucinda Williams comes back to the Zoo on June 30th.
- Duluth’s Charlie Parr brings his guitar(s) to warm up local favorite Gear Daddies on August 1st.
- Keb Mo brings his delta blues, on August 8th.
- Los Lobos and The Los Lonely Boys pair up for a pair of shows on August 4th and 5th. Zesty.
Check out the rest of the lineup and other details.
You’re not kidding about the tickets Howie. Chris Issac (August 13th) appears to already be sold out and I believe tickets just went on sale for that late this week.
wondering why billy bob cancelled at the zoo? was it so he could smoke during the show? communication of the cancellation on the zoo’s part was very poor.