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Taj Mahal Quartet with special guest Stan Kipper Trio

  June 15, 2019 7:30 PM
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
Mahal's career has been full of and defined by colorful twists and turns, unexpected whimsical ventures and a commitment to a muse that has long preferred freewheeling innovation to conformity. So there's always the challenge of finding the right words and phrases to capture just what he's meant to American music over the past half century. Miles Mellough, who wrote the start and honest, no holds barred liner notes for The Complete Columbia Albums Collection, captures the complexities perfectly on several posts he penned on his blog Birds with Broken Wings after the box set came out.   "Here's the thing, plain and simple," he writes. "Taj Mahal has always been a conundrum; a man who is capable of mirroring many things to many people, and the reason why is because he's an enigma --- an alchemist and a contrarian...Through his music he's been a dirt farmer, a man of gentry, and a Mississippi riverboat gambler. He's played the role of the pious country preacher of old South camp meetings to a chain gang prisoner breaking rocks in the hot, midday sun. He's been a hard-boiled harp player with a gold tooth and process blowing gritty on the South side of Chicago to a West Indies fishing boat captain sipping Banana Daiquiri's with a St. Kitts woman...Like the blues tree with its many roots, Mahal has become the sum of many parts. But if you were to strip him of the elements that have come to define him publicly, you'd no doubt find that beneath it all he's really just a simple man with a harp, a steel guitar, and a banjo in his rucksack; a man making music with a whole hell of a lot of heart and soul."

Additional Event Information

Doors 7:00PM | Music 7:30PM | All Ages
Box Office Opens at 6:30PM on day of show
Rain or Shine
10:30PM Curfew

***In accordance with Minnesota Zoo policy, no smoking is allowed anywhere on Zoo property, including the use of lighted cigarettes, cigars, pipes or other smoking materials as well as e-cigarettes.

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