Twin Cities hip-hop collective Doomtree will take over downtown St. Paul’s new CHS Field Oct. 3 for an event they’re calling the Doomtree Zoo.
Advance tickets are $35 and will go on sale at 11 a.m. Saturday online at doomtree.net/zoo. Members of Doomtree will also be selling tickets in person from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the CHS Field box office. The price will increase to $45 the day of the show. VIP tickets, dubbed Baller Passes, are $100 and include access to the soundcheck, a photo and Q&A session with the group, an autographed poster, drink tickets, indoor seats and other perks. Just 300 Baller Passes are available.
Doomtree will headline the all-day event at CHS Field, which hosted its first concert, New Orleans’ Dr. John, during the Twin Cities Jazz Festival in June. Doomtree hand-picked the rest of the lineup, a process they say “took many months, many meetings, innumerable text threads, secret ballots and a three-digit trail mix budget.” It includes national acts Aesop Rock with Rob Sonic, Trash Talk, Shabazz Palaces, Open Mike Eagle and Serengeti as well as locals Aby Wolf, Koo Koo Kanga Roo and Anonymous Choir.
The afternoon performances will be kid-friendly, with face painting and roving performances by In the Heart of the Beast Theatre puppeteers between sets. Children 8 and under get in free.
Doomtree is known for splashy special events. In December, they presented their 10th annual, and final, Blowout. The series of sold-out shows around the Twin Cities wrapped with three nights at Minneapolis’ First Avenue and sold a total of 7,000 tickets. CHS Field could hold more than twice that number for the Doomtree Zoo, which the group hopes will become an annual event.
Pop music critic Ross Raihala can be reached at 651-228-5553. Follow him at Twitter.com/RossRaihala.
