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Soundtrack to your summer

Music in the Zoo at the Minnesota Zoo

Weesner Family Amphitheater

13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, MN 55124

Past Seasons

2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

2019

6/01/19 The Cactus Blossoms
6/15/19 Taj Mahal Quartet
6/21/19 Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Toad the Wet Sprocket
6/22/19 Mason Jennings
6/23/19 Keb’ Mo’
6/26/19 Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
7/2/19 An Evening with Dark Star Orchestra
7/3/19 Jonny Lang
7/10/19 I’m With Her: Sarah Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aiofe O’Donovan
7/14/19 POP 2000 Tour – hosted by Lance Bass of *NSYNC featuring O-Town, Aaron Carter and Ryan Cabrera
7/17/19 Robert Earl Keen and The Lone Bellow
7/19/19 Rosanne Cash
7/20/19 Tower of Power
7/22/19 Guster
7/23/19 Belle and Sebastian
7/24/19 The Psychedelic Furs and James
7/28/19 Conor Oberst
8/2/19 Steve Earle & The Dukes
8/7/19 Gaelic Storm
8/9/19 Mat Kearney
8/10/19 Marc Cohn
8/24/19 Josh Ritter
8/25/19 Dave Koz and Friends
8/28/19 Robert Cray

2018

6/02/18 Los Lonely Boys and Ozomatli
6/12/18 An Acoustic Evening with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo
6/15/18 Trombone Shorty
6/16/18 Trombone Shorty
6/17/18 Gomez
6/20/18 Xavier Rudd
6/23/18 Keb’ Mo’
6/24/18 George Thorogood and the Destroyers
6/27/18 Jonny Lang
6/28/18 Buddy Guy
6/29/18 Chaka Khan
7/2/18 Black Violin
7/3/18 Yonder Mountain String Band
7/11/18 St. Paul & The Broken Bones with Hiss Golden Messenger
7/13/18 Mary Chapin Carpenter
7/15/18 The Jayhawks
7/23/18 Joe Jackson
7/25/18 Guster with Van William
7/28/18 Rufus Wainwright
8/4/18 Jerry Jeff Walker
8/10/18 Marc Cohn
8/11/18 The Mavericks
8/12/18 The Mavericks
8/13/18 Son Volt
8/14/18 Blackberry Smoke and JJ Grey & Mofro
8/19/18 The Okee Dokee Brothers
8/25/18 Michael Franti & Spearhead with AHI and HIRIE
8/27/18 Ziggy Marley

2017

6/14/17 Delta Rae with Lauren Jenkins
6/16/17 Buddy Guy
6/18/17 Boz Scaggs with Jeff LeBlanc
6/22/17 An Evening with Dark Star Orchestra
6/24/17 Mason Jennings with The Pines
6/25/17 Texas Dance Hall Tour: Asleep At The Wheel & Dale Watson
6/30/17 Ziggy Marley
7/2/17 The B-52’s
7/6/17 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
7/9/17 Choo Choo Soul
7/10/18 An Evening with Natalie Merchant
7/12/17 Robery Cray with Special guest Jack Broadbent
7/14/17 Jonny Lang
7/18/17 Amos Lee with Bailen
7/19/17 Amos Lee with Bailen
7/21/17 Jerry Jeff Walker
7/29/17 Mary Chapin Carpenter
7/30/17 Steve Earle & the Dukes with special guests                                                          The Cactus Blossoms & The Mastersons
8/5/17 Gear Daddies with the Nadas
8/8/17 Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
8/9/17 Los Lonely Boys with Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
8/10/17 Dave Koz & Larry Graham
8/11/17 An Evening with Herbie Hancock
8/12/17 BoDeans
8/13/17 Josh Thompson with Chris Hawkey
8/18/17 John Butler Trio with Landon McNamara
8/20/17 Eric Hutchinson
8/22/17 Gregory Alan Isakov & Blind Pilot
8/25/17 Five for Fighting with String Quartet
8/29/17 Indigo Girls
8/30/17 Indigo Girls

2016


6/10/16 Five for Fighting with String Quartet with Marie Miller
6/11/16 Blondie with The Step Rockets
6/12/16 Home Free with The Sound Exchange
6/13/16 Ziggy Marley
6/18/16 Soul Asylum with The English Beat
6/19/16 Los Lobos with Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers
6/23/16 Dark Star Orchestra
6/24/16 Buddy Guy with Matt Andersen
6/30/16 Morris Day & The Time with Mina Moore
7/1/16 The Jayhawks with Folk Uke
7/2/16 Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers with Gill Landry
7/6/16 Guster with KT Tunstall
7/8/16 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Baylor Wilson
7/13/16 Trevor Hall with Cas Haley
7/15/16 The Willis Clan
7/20/16 George Thorogood & The Destroyers with Crankshaft
7/21/16 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
7/25/16 Indigo Girls with Great Caesar
7/27/16 Tower of Power with Nooky Jones
7/29/16 Marc Cohn with special guests Blind Boys of Alabama
7/30/16 Marc Cohn with special guests Blind Boys of Alabama
7/31/16 Laurie Berkner
8/2/16 Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle
8/7/16 Grace Potter with Brynn Elliott
8/8/16 Grace Potter with Brynn Elliott
8/9/16 The Mavericks with Wain McFarlane and George Scot Mckelvey
8/10/16 case/lang/veirs (cancelled)
8/20/16 Har Mar Superstar with Fog
8/20/16 Jerry Jeff Walker with Django Walker

2015


6/6/15 Marc Cohn & Shawn Colvin
6/9/15 Lucinda Williams with Buick 6
6/16/15 Los Lonely Boys with Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers
6/19/15 BoDeans with GB Leighton
6/20/15 Michael McDonald
6/26/15 Buddy Guy with The Record Company
7/8/15 Salt-N-Pepa with DJ Shannon Blowtorch
7/9/15 Kacey Musgraves with Sugar & The Hi Lows
7/12/15 Patty Griffin, Mavis Staples, & Amy Helm
7/16/15 Ry Cooder, Sharon White, & Ricky Skaggs with Willie Watson
7/17/15 Indigo Girls with Michelle Malone
7/18/15 Dave Koz with Rick Braun and Kenny Lattimore
7/19/15 John Butler Trio with Ethan Tucker
7/21/15 The Mavericks with The Last Bandoleros
7/23/15 Black Joe Lewis and Caroline Smith
7/24/15 Blackberry Smoke with The Steepwater Band
7/25/15 Mason Jennings with S. Carey
7/26/15 The Okee Dokee Brothers
7/31/15 Jerry Jeff Walker with Albert and Gage
8/6/15 Keb’Mo’
8/11/15 Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo with Erik Koskinen
8/12/15 Easton Corbin with Shane Martin
8/15/15 Tina & the B-Sides with Molly Maher and her Disbelievers
8/18/15 Robert Cray with special guest Sonny Landreth
8/22/15 Jonny Lang with Guthrie Brown & The Family Tree
8/24/15 James Vincent McMorrow with Kevin Garrett
9/3/15 Robert Randolph & The Family Band with Ben Miller Band

2014

6/2/14 The Monkees
6/3/14 Indigo Girls with Hannah Thomas
6/8/14 Steve Earle & The Dukes with The Mastersons
6/11/14 3 Doors Down Acoustic with Jordis Unga
6/15/14 Okee Dokee Brothers
6/17/14 moe. with The Chris Robinson Brotherhood
6/19/14 Aaron Neville with Cory Chisel’s Soul Obscura
6/21/14 Jonny Lang with Johnny P.
6/22/14 Los Lobos with Crystal Bowersox
6/23/14 John Hiatt & The Combo and The Robert Cray Band
6/24/14 Rufus Wainwright with Lucy Wainwright Roche
6/27/14 Big Head Todd  & The Monsters
6/29/14 Taj Mahal & Mavis Staples
7/2/14 Railroad Earth with The Big Wu
7/3/14 Bela Fleck & Brooklyn Ryder String Quartet
7/5/14 The Hold Steady with Cheap Girls
7/7/14 Gillian Welch
7/18/14 Gov’t Mule
7/19/14 Marc Cohn
7/25/14 BoDeans with American Scarecrows
8/3/14 Lyle Lovett & His Large Band
8/6/14 Trombone Shorty with The Main Squeeze
8/12/14 Ziggy Marley with Young Ry
8/13/14 Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo with Tim Mohoney
8/15/14 Nicholas David with David Mayfield
8/17/14 Dave Koz
8/18/14 Jamey Johnson with Chris Hennessee
8/23/14 Josh Turner with Barbara Jean

2013

6/6/13 Joan Baez
6/8/13 Richard Thompson with Field Report
6/14/13 Pert Near Sandstone
6/15/13 Eric Hutchinson with Alex Rossi & Root City, Elliott & the Sensitive Fellas
6/21/13 BoDeans
6/22/13 Carolina Chocolate Drops with Steve Kaul & the Brass Kings
6/23/13 The James Hunter Six with Shemekia Copeland
6/28/13 Melissa Etheridge
6/30/13 Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo with Brynn Marie
7/5/13 Dark Star Orchestra
7/6/13 Cheap Trick
7/7/13 Los Lobos & Los Lonely Boys
7/8/13 Great Big Sea
7/10/13 Mary Chapin Carpenter & Marc Cohn
7/11/13 Mary Chapin Carpenter & Marc Cohn
7/12/13 Xavier Rudd with Nahko and Medicine for the People
7/16/13 Willie Nelson
7/19/13 Dr. John with special guest Sonny Landreth
7/21/13 Trombone Shorty and Mavis Staples
7/22/13 Chris Isaak
7/26/13 Dave Koz featuring Mindi Adair, Gerald Albright & Richard Elliot
7/27/13 Brian Wilson with Al Jardine & David Marks
8/1/13 John Hiatt & the combo and Steve Earle
8/4/13 John Butler Trio
8/7/13 Rock n’ Blues
8/18/13 Carly Rae Jepsen & The Wanted
8/21/13 Lyle Lovett and his Large Band
8/25/13 Robert Cray Band with Lamont Cranston Band
8/28/13 Elvin Bishop with Ruthie Foster
8/29/13 Jerry Jeff Walker with Paul Thorn Band

2012

6/2/12 Feist with The Low Anthem
6/16/12 Jimmy Cliff with Toki Wright
6/17/12 Jerry Jeff Walker with GB Leighton
6/19/12 Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers with Van Ghost
6/20/12 Brandi Carlile
6/21/12 Brandi Carlile
6/23/12 The Pines with Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles
6/24/12 Tedeschi Trucks Band with Ryan Shaw
6/25/12 Tedeschi Trucks Band with Ryan Shaw
6/27/12 Gavin DeGraw & Colbie Caillat
6/28/12 Emmylou Harris with Field Report
6/29/12 John Prine with Willie Watson (of Old Crow Medicine Show)
7/1/12 David Gray with Yuna
7/3/12 Ziggy Marley with The New Primitives
7/5/12 Dark Star Orchestra
7/6/12 DeVotchKa with Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps
7/13/12 Marc Cohn with Rebecca Pidgeon
7/14/12 Marc Cohn with Alison Scott
7/21/12 Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Band
7/22/12 Los Lonely Boys with Ozomatli
7/25/12 Los Lobos and Steve Earle
7/27/12 BoDeans with Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts
7/28/12 BoDeans with Honeydogs
7/29/12 Robert Randolph & the Family Band and JJ Grey & Mofro
8/1/12 Mary Chapin Carpenter with Tift Merritt
8/3/12 Dave Koz featuring Bebe Winans
8/4/12 Tommy Castro and the Painkillers & Marcia Ball
8/7/12 Barenaked Ladies, Blues Traveler & Cracker
8/8/12 Taj Mahal & Blind Boys of Alabama
8/11/12 Rufus Wainwright and his band with Adam Cohen
8/15/12 Tower of Power with Mick Sterling Acoustic Soul
8/18/12 The 4onthefloor with Charlie Parr
8/30/12 The Suburbs with Magnolias
9/2/12 Little Feat

2011

6/14/11 The Go-Go’s
6/16/11 James Cotton Band & Charlie Musselwhite
6/17/11 Florence and the Machine with Hanni El Khatib
6/22/11 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with Lubriphonic
6/25/11 Nanci Griffith with Michael Johnson
6/27/11 Dark Star Orchestra
6/28/11 Jack’s Mannequin with Steel Train
6/29/11 Taj Mahal & Mavis Staples
6/30/11 Matisyahu & North Mississippi All Stars (duo)
7/1/11 The Monkees
7/2/11 The Monkees
7/9/11 Toots and the Maytals with Natty Nation
7/10/11 Little Feat
7/12/11 Sara Bareilles with Raining Jane
7/13/11 Indigo Girls with Mount Moriah
7/15/11 The Suburbs with The Suicide Commandos
7/16/11 Dave Koz – Hello Tomorrow Tour
7/22/11 BoDeans with Alison Scott
7/27/11 Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
7/31/11 Marc Cohn with Shawn Mullins
8/3/11 Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
8/4/11 Big Head Todd & the Monsters with Cedar Avenue
8/5/11 David Sanborn, Marcus Miller & George Duke
8/6/11 Wanda Jackson & Justin Townes Earle
8/9/11 Los Lobos & Los Lonely Boys
8/13/11 Brandi Carlile with Ivan & Alyosha
8/16/11 Railroad Earth with John Wayne & the Pain
8/17/11 George Thorogood & the Destroyers with Eddie Shaw
8/18/11 Boyz II Men with Heatbox
8/19/11 Jeremy Messersmith with Rogue Valley
8/21/11 HippieFest
8/25/11 Gaelic Storm
8/26/11 Tedeschi Trucks Band
8/27/11 Tedeschi Trucks Band

2010

6/6/10 Straight No Chaser
6/12/10 Yonder Mountain String Band
6/16/10 Blues Traveler with Root City Band
6/18/10 Larry Graham with Mint Condition
6/19/10 Gear Daddies with Alison Scott
6/24/10 Dark Star Orchestra
6/25/10 Wailers with The Aggrolites
6/26/10 Edwin McCain & Pat McGee Band
6/30/10 Buckwheat Zydeco & Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
7/3/10 Devo
7/6/10 Levon Helm Band & John Hiatt and the Combo
7/7/10 Mary Chapin Carpenter with The Pines
7/8/10 Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue & Tab Benoit
7/9/10 Greg Brown with Bo Ramsey
7/10/10 Taj Mahal with Willy Porter
7/12/10 Moe.
7/13/10 Joan Baez
7/14/10 Los Lobos with Chester Bay
7/15/10 Los Lobos with Moreland & Arbuckle
7/16/10 Dave Koz & Jonathan Butler – Together Again
7/18/10 Los Lonely Boys with The Bridge
7/22/10 Squeeze with The English Beat
7/31/10 Lucero & Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
8/6/10 Marc Cohn with Kristina Train
8/7/10 Jimmy Cliff with Trevor Hall
8/10/10 Hanson with Rooney
8/12/10 Gaelic Storm
8/15/10 Black Crowes
8/17/10 George Thorogood & the Destroyers with Eddie Shaw
8/20/10 David Sanborn with Patty Peterson & Friends
8/21/10 Jerry Jeff Walker with The Bobby Vandell Band
8/27/10 Carolina Chocolate Drops with Roma di Luna
9/4/10 Crowded House with Lawrence Arabia

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