The venerable Robert Earl Keen headlines
this installment of the zoo’s family-friendly, kid-packed,
surreptitiously wine-soaked summer concerts, but “special guest”
Todd Snider is why I’m excited about it. With his rich, lithe,
deeply witty tales of day laborers, call girls, and dry-drunk
presidents, Snider is as good a songwriter as anyone alive; in concert,
he’s like the child Steve Earle and Bill Hicks would’ve
produced, if either had a uterus. (Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N 59th
St, find ticket locations at www.metropolitan-market.com.
6 pm, $17, all ages.)

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...