When:
Zoo gates open at 5:00 p.m. Concerts begin at 6:00 p.m. and end no
later than 8:30 p.m. Concerts are held rain or shine – no
ticket refunds.
Where:
Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle. The North Meadow is near the North
Entrance off N. 59th St. & Phinney Ave. N. Other entries are through
the South Entrance at N. 50th St. & Fremont Ave. N. and the West Entrance
at N. 55th St. & Phinney Ave. N. Call Metro at 206.553.3000 for bus service
to the zoo. Parking is free, but limited. Free parking also is available
at lower Woodland Park.
Tickets:
Tickets go on sale beginning May 5 at 8:00 a.m. at all Metropolitan Market locations:
Sand Point, Queen Anne, West Seattle, Uptown, Dash Point and Proctor. They
are on sale each day at Metropolitan Market from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.
Visit www.metropolitan-market.com for store locations. A $2 service fee is
added, with 90% of the fee coming back to the zoo. One child 12 and under
per paid ticket is admitted free. Tickets sell out fast, so purchase early!
A limited
number of tickets are available at Woodland Park Zoo gates during
zoo hours: 9:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. daily. On May 5 only, tickets at zoo gates
will be
available 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. A very limited number of tickets will be available
on www.ticketweb.com.
Info:
For more information, call Woodland Park Zoo at 206.548.2500 or visit the ZooTunes
Web site.
Other:
Beer and Wine Garden – Enjoy a stroll through the zoo’s Butterflies & Blooms
exhibit and enjoy a great selection of wine and beer with excellent views of
the concert. A portion of every dollar spent in the Beer and Wine Garden goes
to support the zoo’s quality animal care, engaging education programs and
wildlife conservation initiatives around the world. The Beer and Wine Garden
opens at 5:00 p.m. You must be 21 to purchase alcohol. No one will be served
alcohol without proper photo I.D., regardless of age. Alcohol must stay within
the designated Beer and Wine Garden area. Note: Alcohol from outside the zoo
is not allowed.
Bike
corrals –Biking or riding the bus helps to minimize
traffic congestion and on-street parking in the neighborhoods surrounding the
zoo. Secure bike corrals
will be available during all concerts.
Metro
bus service: Take the #5 bus, just minutes from downtown Seattle
or Greenwood. The bus stops by the
zoo’s West Entrance at N. 55th & Phinney Ave.
N. For routes and information, call 206.553.3000 or visit www.transit.metrokc.gov.
Who:
June
24 & 25 – Keb’ Mo’ / Taj Mahal
Keb’ Mo’ – Singer-songwriter and guitarist Keb'
Mo's music is a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled
up the Mississippi
River and across the expanse of America. Born Kevin Moore in South
Los Angeles to parents originally from the Deep South, he adopted his better
known stage name, Keb’ Mo’, when he was a young player who became
inspired by the force of this essential African-American legacy. His acclaimed
self-titled 1994 debut album
introduced that now famous appellation to the world, and his latest album, 2006’s “Suitcase,” brings
it to new heights.
Taj Mahal – Singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, ethnomusicologist,
two-time Grammy-winner, world-class musical collaborator, musicians’ advocate,
and world traveler, Taj Mahal has been playing his own distinctive brand of
music for more than 40 years. Part Afro-Caribbean blues, folk-world-blues,
hula blues,
and folk-funk, Taj’s music mixes Caribbean, Hawaiian, African, Latin,
and Cuban sounds with folk, jazz, zydeco, gospel, rock, pop, soul, and R&B
rhythms, all layered on top of a solid country blues foundation. Taj says of
his music, “I
have songs in my head from so many languages and people. I know my sound is
in the middle of this whole.”
June
29 – Indigo Girls
Devoted environmental and social justice activists and lifelong
music-industry mavericks, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, known as the
Indigo Girls, have spent
over two decades pushing musical and social boundaries. Their 10th studio
album, “Despite
Our Differences,” celebrates change and progress – it’s
the first CD they’ve released since signing a new record deal with
Hollywood Records and it’s a creative step outside their established
Georgia comfort zone, having been recorded over a speedy month-and-a-half
this spring at veteran
producer Mitchell Froom’s home studio in Santa Monica, Calif. Ray explains, “We
just want to keep evolving – there isn’t a point where that doesn’t
apply.”
July
16 – Marc Cohn / Aimee Mann
Marc Cohn – In the years that preceded the release of his new Decca album “Join
the Parade,” Marc Cohn passed through several life-changing events that
enabled him to reconnect with his songwriting muse. A work of art emerging from
tragedy, “Join the Parade” is being called Marc’s most accomplished
and compelling album to date. Cohn has translated some of his most complex
and private emotions into lyrical song-poetry and then set those words to music
of
remarkable depth and soul. In doing so, Marc has created a work that is certain
to touch a universal chord of memory and feeling.
Aimee Mann – From her work in the ‘80s with MTV favorite Til
Tuesday through her acclaimed solo discs “Whatever” and “I’m
With Stupid” in the ‘90s, Aimee Mann has always been at the
forefront of contemporary songwriters. Known for pairing the bleakest of
poetry with soaring,
infectious melodies, Mann’s songcraft often has been compared with
the Beatles. Look for Aimee’s seventh solo release, “Smilers,” coming
in spring 2008.
July
23 – Andrew Bird
Josh Ritter
Andrew Bird – Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist Andrew Bird
spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.
Now Bird is known for his musical experiments, playing his violin in a most unconventional
manner: accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling
to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process. Since beginning
his recording career, Andrew has released nine albums. “Armchair Apocrypha,” released
on March 2007, marks his tenth release.
Josh Ritter – “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter” catches
the Idaho musician in the midst of a radical transformation. While last year’s “The
Animal Years” had Ritter thinking about the state of the nation, his latest
offering finds him pining for Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane and Florence Nightingale. “For
some reason it seemed like there was a premium [in songwriting] being placed
on earnestness and that can be pretty stifling. There was a lot of talk about
true love and righteous indignation. I wanted to write about gunslingers and
missile silos,” says Ritter.
July 24 – Emmylou Harris
Jimmy Gaudreau and Moondi Klein
Emmylou Harris – Emmylou Harris has been hailed as a major figure
in several of America’s most important musical movements of the
past three decades, including country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk
music, and the Americana
movement. In recent years, she also has carved out a sound uniquely her
own with 1995’s “Wrecking Ball” album, combining world-music
elements with acoustic folk instruments, and 2000’s “Red
Dirt Girl.” Billboard
magazine honored Emmylou Harris with its prestigious Century Award in
1999 “to
acknowledge the uncommon excellence of (her) still-unfolding body of
work.”Between 2000 and the present, she appeared on the “O
Brother Where Art Thou” soundtrack, collaborated with the Chieftains
on their “Down
the Old Plank Road” album and TV special, performed at countless
concerts and in duets, and sang backup on albums for Sheryl Crow, Tracy
Chapman, the
Dixie Chicks, Patty Griffin, Patty Loveless, Delbert McClinton, Jim Lauderdale,
Pam
Tillis and Nanci Griffith.
Jimmy Gaudreau – Jimmy has long been regarded as one of the top bluegrass
performers in the world. Since getting the call in 1969 to move to the Washington,
D.C. area from his native Rhode Island and join the legendary Country Gentlemen,
he has performed with a veritable Who's Who of bluegrass bands and earned a
reputation as a mandolin maverick with a sound and a style all his own.
In addition to two stints with the Country Gentlemen, Jimmy has also
performed with JD Crowe and the New South, with The Tony Rice Unit (for
nine years),
and with his own bands Country Store, Spectrum (with Bela Fleck), Chesapeake,
and
Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau. In 2005, Jimmy was inducted into the Society
for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America's “Hall of Greats” and
featured in a “Mandolin Magazine” cover story.
Moondi Klein – While on a trip to The Carter Fold in southwest
Va. with his dad, Moondi Klein, born in Manhattan, got his first taste
of mountain music
and hasn’t looked back since. He learned to play the guitar and
banjo, and after studying music in college, moved to the Washington D.C.
area and helped
form Rock Creek. Later he replaced John Starling as lead singer with
The Seldom Scene and eventually went on to help form the band Chesapeake,
whose three albums
released on the Sugar Hill label have gained critical acclaim. Moondi’s
music can be classified as reggae-, rock-, Celtic- and country-influenced
bluegrass.
July
27 – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Marc Broussard
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – When asked what makes great
music, Sharon Jones says, “You’ve got to feel it! In your
bones, your heart, in everything and everywhere!” And if you’ve
ever been to a Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings show, you know you can’t
but help feel their music: from the rumble and grumble of thick funk
jerking you to the dance floor, to the soaring
soul guaranteed to make you sigh. “Naturally” is her most
recent full-length effort.
Marc
Broussard – The son of Louisiana
Hall of Fame guitarist Ted Broussard (of the legendary blue-eyed soul
combo, the Boogie Kings), Marc and his 2004
major-label debut, “Carencro,” drew national acclaim. Broussard
performs show-stopping sets at festivals like South By Southwest, Bonnaroo,
and the New
Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and tours with Dave Matthews Band,
Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Gavin DeGraw, O.A.R. and Maroon 5. In
his 2007 critically
acclaimed album “S.O.S.: Save Our Soul,” Broussard and
his band created 11 incendiary performances of soul classics originally
recorded by Al Green,
Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Bobby Womack, and other members of R&B
royalty.
August 13 – Boz Scaggs
Grammy Award-winning artist Boz Scaggs combines rock, jazz, R&B
and blues to create his trademark sound. With an extensive and distinctive
career that
has spanned 30 years and many accolades, Scaggs continues to prove
himself as one of music's most creative and original artists. Boz will
be releasing
a new
studio record in April 2008.
August
21 – Amos Lee
Inspired by soul greats, Amos Lee directs his music with a spirit
and presence rooted in American tradition. Amos delivers a unique
brand
of folk-soul
music that aims to unite, uplift and inspire. The “folk” side
is reflected in his nimble acoustic guitar playing and the intimacy
of his live performances.
The “soul” strain comes through in the engaging song-poetry
of his lyrics. His eponymous, 2005 Blue Note debut album features
11 tracks all
composed
by Amos.
August
27 – The Avett Brothers
Shawn Mullins
The Avett Brothers – Their songs are honest: just chords with
real voices singing real melodies. But the heart and energy with which
the Avett Brothers
performs have created a feverish following for their legendary performances
in bars, music clubs, and festivals across the nation. Rooted in
bluegrass and folk
traditions, the Avett Brothers transcend genres, blending in pop,
punk, and rock and roll to create timeless, truthful songs.
Shawn Mullins – Shawn Mullins’ vibrant new album “honeydew” (released
March 11) teems with humanity – hobos, railroad workers,
traveling salesmen, homeless troubadours, fearful old people,
youngsters yearning to escape from
a dead-end existence, and several generations of family members,
living and dead. There’s a ton of heartache and yet hope
in this record, as Mullins explores the dark corners of contemporary
existence while also delving back into the past,
capturing vivid pictures of his native Atlanta and the surrounding
South in a voice of plainspoken eloquence and uncommon genuineness.
This richly interwoven,
character-driven work is at once the most panoramic album of
Mullins’ distinguished
career and the most intensely personal..
