Breakestra Concert History

Formed by breaks fanatic Miles Tackett, Breakestra is a constantly morphing hip-hop orchestra based in Los Angeles. The group came together in 1997-1997 around Tackett's DJ gigs at a coffeehouse. A multi-instrumentalist whose work on cello has appeared on recordings by B.B. King, Macy Gray, and Black Eyed Peas, Tackett was a funk fan who got into hip-hop during the late '80s -- courtesy of the Ultramagnetic classic Critical Beatdown -- when he realized it was keeping the funk flame alive.

Date Concert Venue Location
Jul 26, 2008
Breakestra Great American Music Hall San Francisco, California, United States
Jul 25, 2008
Breakestra Moe's Alley Santa Cruz, California, United States
Aug 18, 2007
Sunset Junction Street Fair
"Sunset Junction Street Fair" / Crosby Tyler / Medusa / The Broken West / Morris Day & The Time / The Emotions / Ben Harper / The Pity Party / The Parson Red Heads / Culver City Dub Collective / Renaissance / Blonde Redhead / Autolux / Ritmo Flamenco / Division Day / Sy Smith / Deniece Williams / Raks Majnoun / Sea Wolf / Breakestra Show all bands
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Sunset Junction Street Fair Festival Grounds Silver lake, California, United States
Sep 17, 2006
Breakestra / Panacea The Independent San Francisco, California, United States
Sep 13, 2006
Breakestra The Orpheum Theater Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Sep 11, 2006
Breakestra / Yo, Flaco! / Panacea Fox Theatre Boulder, Colorado, United States
Sep 04, 2006
Bumbershoot Festival
"Bumbershoot Festival" / Metric / Speaker Speaker / Copeland / A Tribe Called Quest / Breakestra / Cancer Rising / The English Beat / The Bellrays / Sparta / Kane Hodder / Mountain Con / Rocky Votolato / Feist / Nouvelle Vague / The Veronicas / Jacqui Naylor / The Subdudes / The Briefs / The Village Green / CocoRosie / Particle / Bettye LaVette / Yerba Buena / Atmosphere / Steve Miller Band Show all bands
Seattle Center Seattle, Washington, United States
Sep 02, 2006 –
Sep 04, 2006
Bumbershoot 2006
Kanye West / Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / Blondie / Feist / José González / Spoon / Metric / Steve Miller Band / Yellowcard / Atmosphere / AFI / of Montreal / Zero 7 / The Veronicas / Gossip / The New Pornographers / Brett Dennen / Rogue Wave / Nouvelle Vague / CocoRosie / Badly Drawn Boy / Hawthorne Heights / As I Lay Dying / Jamie Lidell / Matt Costa / Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / The English Beat / Deerhoof / Laura Veirs / Lady Sovereign / Mates of State / The Fall of Troy / Copeland / The Thermals / mewithoutYou / Blue Scholars / Shooter Jennings / John Mulaney / Cloud Cult / Vashti Bunyan / Lusine / Reggie Watts / Debbie Harry / Great Big Sea / Aziz Ansari / Sparta / Rocky Votolato / donald byrd / Dengue Fever / Bettye LaVette / Alejandro Escovedo / The Like / David Cross / Sons and Daughters / Common Market / Breakestra / 3 Inches Of Blood / The Lonely Forest / Dumpstaphunk / Maria Bamford / The Subdudes / Yerba Buena / Sonya Kitchell / Tony Rice / Doug Benson / sera cahoone / Jeremy Enigk / Deadbeat / The Bellrays / Todd Barry / Zach Galifianakis / Christian Finnegan / Particle / Halou / Paul F. Tompkins / Nomo / The Briefs / Erase Errata / Crystal skulls / Derby / Epoxies / Nick Thune / Jacqui Naylor / Village Green / Hari Kondabolu / Dana Gould / The Saturday Knights / P:ano / Korby Lenker / Rishi Rich Project / Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey / Matt Smith / Arj Barker / Bittersweet / Awesome / Carl Hancock Rux / The Purrs / Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson / Best Week Ever / Morgan Murphy / Kane Hodder / Anis Mojgani / Izabelle / The Lonely H / Matt Walsh / Matt Besser / Rob Huebel / Mon Frere / Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands / The Hollowpoints / Velella Velella / Horatio Sanz / The Transmissionary Six / Jon Benjamin / Slender Means / Erik Larson / Thee Emergency / Cancer Rising / Abyssinian Creole / Sirens Sister / Speaker Speaker / Sara Gruen / Mountain Con / Johanna Kunin / Randy Oxford Band / Michael Walker / MARK WHITE / Jerry Quickley / The Swains / Paul Scheer / the Invisible Eyes / Gokh-Bi System / George Saunders / Degenerate Art Ensemble / New Fangs / Eileen Myles / The Can't See / Go Like Hell / The Living Jarboe / Mary Lynn Rajskub / West Valley Highway / Mike Daisey / Gary Shteyngart / Brett Alexander / Daylight Basement / Ian Roberts / John Olson / Po'okela Street Band / James Greer / Jim Knapp Orchestra / Pat O'day / Ben Fong-torres / Pacific Northwest Ballet / Electric Shades of Blue / Stephanie Pearl-mcphee / Starlee Kine / Pk & What Army / Michelle Tea / Matthew Zapruder / Mary Gaitskill / John Moe / Craig Fisher / Charles Burns / Arthur Sze / Dub Championz / Greil Marcus / The Floyd Standifer Quartet / Rik Wright / Romance (US) / Synthclub / Sean Wilsey / Peter Greyy / Jimmy Mcdonough / Erin Belieu / Eric Slovin & Leo Allen / Christine Deavel / Bay Area Derby Girls / Olympic Sound Collective Show all bands
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Seattle, Washington, United States
Aug 03, 2006 –
Aug 06, 2006
Sudoeste 2006
Daft Punk / The Prodigy / José González / Goldfrapp / Madness / Nouvelle Vague / Seu Jorge / Gentleman / WhoMadeWho / Buraka Som Sistema / Breakestra / The Legendary Tigerman / Ivan Smagghe / Rui Vargas
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Herdade da Casa Branca Zambujeira do Mar, Beja, Portugal
May 20, 2006
Joshua Tree Music Festival
"Joshua Tree Music Festival" / Particle / Corinne West / Kaki King / Breakestra / Moonshine Still / Lotus / Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble / Brett Dennen / Toubab Krewe / Tom Freund / Groundation / Mojow & The Vibration Army
Joshua Tree Lake Campgrounds Joshua Tree, California, United States
Nov 16, 2005
Breakestra / People Under the Stairs / Cut Chemist / Dusk El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, California, United States
Sep 08, 2005
Breakestra Lee's Palace Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jun 14, 2001 –
Jun 16, 2001
Hultsfredsfestivalen 2001
Weezer / Phoenix / The Shins / Queens of the Stone Age / Limp Bizkit / Iggy Pop / Tool / Dropkick Murphys / Godsmack / The Hives / Zero 7 / Faithless / Manic Street Preachers / Opeth / Ladytron / Aimee Mann / Ash / Ane Brun / Starsailor / Turin Brakes / Soulfly / Kent / Håkan Hellström / Étienne de Crécy / Sage Francis / Danko Jones / I Am Kloot / The Skatalites / Ed Harcourt / The Hellacopters / The Soundtrack Of Our Lives / The Ark / The Haunted / Lisa Miskovsky / Backyard Babies / Rocket from the Crypt / Breakestra / Jello Biafra / Randy / Moneybrother / Nashville Pussy / Ulf Lundell / Sahara Hotnights / Tomas Andersson Wij / Looptroop / Magnus Carlson / The Nomads / Division of Laura Lee / Last Days of April / The Latin Kings / Chip Taylor / Bigelf / Wayne Kramer / J. Mascis & The Fog / 59 Times The Pain / El Caco / Fireside / The Bear Quartet / Lowgold / Organism 12 / Bad Cash Quartet / Silverbullit / Fattaru / David and the Citizens / Yvonne / Loosegoats / Uscb Allstars / Feven / Dub Sweden / Broder Daniel / Thug Murder / Headplate / Melinda Wrede / Sedlighetsroteln / Mobbade Barn Med Automatvapen / Spnka Nkpg Show all bands
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Hultsfreds Hembygdspark Hultsfred, Kalmar, Sweden
Aug 04, 1999
Dilated Peoples / Jurassic 5 / Beat Junkies / Breakestra The Bottleneck Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Aug 03, 1999
Jurassic 5 / Dilated Peoples / Beat Junkies / Breakestra First Avenue and 7th St Entry - Mainroom Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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Jun 23 - 27, 2010
 Shepton Mallet, England, United Kingdom
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 Seattle, Washington, United States
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Funk
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Modern Funk
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2018 1 concert
2015 2 concerts
2013 7 concerts
2012 5 concerts
2011 6 concerts
2010 13 concerts
2009 4 concerts
2008 4 concerts
2007 1 concert
2006 7 concerts
2005 2 concerts
2001 1 concert
1999 2 concerts
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


How many concerts has Breakestra had?

Breakestra has had 55 concerts.

What genre is Breakestra?

Breakestra is most often considered to be Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Afrobeat, Modern Funk, Breaks, and Bboy.

When was the last Breakestra concert?

The last Breakestra concert was on May 28, 2018 at Topanga Community Club in Topanga, California, United States. The bands that performed were: "Topanga Days" / Breakestra / Venice / Afrolicious.

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