Eric Hutchinson at Music in the Zoo 2017 reveal, Mall of America, Bloomington (15 Apr 2017)

Music In The Zoo 2017 Season Schedule

It was a set of twenty-fifth anniversaries at the Mall of America—

The Mall itself is celebrating its own 25^th anniversary, with events planned all year, and provided free dessert from Cupcake in the main rotunda as the 25^th season of Music in the Zoo summer concerts from promoter Sue McLean and Associates at the MN Zoo’s Weesner Family Amphitheater was revealed, highlighted by a short performance from one of the summer’s acts, singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson. 

The affable Washington DC native is a Twin Cities favorite, regularly stopping by on tour and has played almost every venue in the metro, returning to the Zoo for his own headlining appearance on Sunday, August 20.  He’ll be in support of latest full-length, Easy Street (Let’s Break Records/Kobalt) which was released last August. 

For his brief twenty-minute solo appearance, Hutchinson made the most of his time, showcasing a few songs from his latest, as well as working in the songs that most people are familiar with him from, beginning with ‘Dear Me’, a letter to his younger self, from the new record. 

“How’s everybody feeling today?” he asked smiling, “how ‘bout you guys, in the cheap seats” Hutchinson joked scanning the people along the rails of the mall’s four upper levels.   ‘Watching You Watch Him’, a song supposedly inspired by his wife watching tennis star Roger Federer play, was next, from 2012’s second album. 

‘Lost in Paradise’ followed, a new song about the feeling that many of us have, of a vacation that should never end.  2008’s ‘Rock & Roll’, his breakthrough song from debut Sounds Like This, was laid back but bouncy, Hutchinson in dark suit and armed with acoustic guitar, trying to fill out the song as best he could. 

2014’s ‘Tell the World’ closed his short set, the song best known as the soundtrack for the first Microsoft Windows 10 commercial (as well as NBC’s short sit-com Growing Up Fisher).

Look for Eric Hutchinson to play all of these songs, and more with full band as he returns to our area in late August, as part of the Music in the Zoo 25^th Anniversary season of summer 2017 concerts.

Eric Hutchinson at Music in the Zoo 2017 reveal, Mall of America Bloomington (15 Apr 2017)

Eric Hutchinson

Eric Hutchinson

Eric Hutchinson

Eric Hutchinson

Eric Hutchinson