Minnesotans love to spend summer outdoors and folks in the Twin Cities love to spend summer weekends outside of the metro. Luckily, there are a wide array of outdoor concerts this summer for folks looking for a quick break. Here’s a look at what’s on tap at three venues, each an hour or more out of the city, in the coming months, and details about one of the biggest country music festivals around.
Keep in mind that ticket prices can fluctuate and the prices listed here do not include VIP and other options. (Concertgoers know full well that artists and venues will take all the money you’re willing to give them.) In 2022, Live Nation took over operations of this 30,000 capacity outdoor venue, located 30 miles northeast of St.
Paul in Wisconsin, which has since hosted a somewhat steady series of summer concerts. The big one this year, at least for aging nu metal fans, is Limp Bizkit (6:30 p.m.
July 16; $143.50-$45.65), who haven’t played the metro in a decade.
At the turn of the century, the band led rap-rock fusion boom, which offered an alternative to the boy bands that ruled the era. Limp Bizkit broke through with a roughed-up cover of George Michael’s “Faith” and went on to sell an astonishing 15 million copies of their albums “Significant Other” and “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.” Guitarist Wes Borland quit the band at the height of their success in 2001.
While he returned to the fold three years later, the group never returned to .
