The Zoo Bar

The Zoo Bar The Zoo Bar is a music venue and nightclub located in downtown Lincoln, Ne, on 136 N. 14th. ZOOFEST 2025-July 11 & 12 It’s just great in every way.
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The Zoo Bar is a blues music venue and nightclub located in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska, on 136 North 14th Street. Styled around the Chicago blues clubs, it is a long, narrow venue in a building built in 1921. Numerous live albums have been recorded in the club. Magic Slim and his band were regular performers at the bar, playing week-long stints. In the 1990s, Magic Slim moved his family from Chica

go to Lincoln. In 1993 the Zoo Bar won the Blues Foundation's Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Club of the Year. James Harman wrote a song on behalf of the club called "Everybody's Rockin' (At The Zoo Bar)", which can be found on Harman's 1995 Black And White CD.

“The Zoo Bar is one of my all time favorite bars and it’s also one of my all time favorite places to play the blues. I could fill pages of all the good times I’ve had there and all the reasons it’s a great place, but the short version is that the staff and the owners have always been really nice to the musicians and the patrons are all real blues lovers and all together that makes it a great place to play."
-Charlie Musselwhite

Please direct booking messages to [email protected] and [email protected]
* Zoo Bar Hours: Mon-Sat: 3pm-close, open at noon on Sundays.
*Please visit zoobar.com to see who is on our calendar, what time they start and door cover.

06/02/2026

Special thanks to photographers, Brad Elligood and Tom Joyce Pix.

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06/02/2026

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05/31/2026
2026 Zoo Bar Open is in the books. Thanks to everyone who golfed today. You make it so fun!Pioneers Golf Course Lincoln ...
05/31/2026

2026 Zoo Bar Open is in the books. Thanks to everyone who golfed today. You make it so fun!
Pioneers Golf Course Lincoln NE

We asked if you’d been to see a “new to you” show in the last 30 days at The Zoo Bar.I put all of your names in a beer p...
05/29/2026

We asked if you’d been to see a “new to you” show in the last 30 days at The Zoo Bar.
I put all of your names in a beer pitcher and drew 3 names out. Those 3 winners get to choose a show in June (and JUNE only) to attend at no charge.
Thanks for being open to trying new bands!

05/29/2026

We thought that the Zoo Bar's golf tournament was sold out, but we've had 4 teams that had to cancel. The tournament is this Saturday at Pioneers Golf Course at 1 pm, $85 a player for the 4 person scramble. Chefs Otto and Allison will feed us afterwards at the bar. If interested please email Amanda at [email protected]. Thank you!
P.S. That’s a whole lotta food made for fewer players.

05/29/2026

***Thanks for playing! I’ll be back in a bit.*****
If you have attended a show with a band you’ve never seen before at The Zoo Bar within the last 30 days,
please comment below with who it was. Thank you.

Address

136 N 14th Street
Lincoln, NE
68508

Opening Hours

Monday 3pm - 2am
Tuesday 3pm - 2am
Wednesday 3pm - 2am
Thursday 3pm - 2am
Friday 3pm - 2am
Saturday 3pm - 2am
Sunday 12pm - 2am

Telephone

+14024358754

Website

http://www.facebook.com/zoobarblues

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