Penguin Cafe Concert History

Arthur Jeffes has brought together a group of musicians to create Music from the Penguin Cafe (now known simply as Penguin Cafe), playing the music of his father, Simon Jeffes and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra and combining it with his own compositions.

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Penguin Cafe Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026 - 2027) (Page 5)

Date Concert Venue Location
Jul 21, 2019
Penguin Cafe

Latitude Festival

Henham Park Henham, England, United Kingdom
Jul 18, 2019 –
Jul 21, 2019
Latitude Festival 2019
Lana Del Rey / George Ezra / MØ / CHVRCHES / Marina / Stereophonics / Cat Power / Primal Scream / Underworld / Ben Folds / Khruangbin / AURORA / Cavetown / Frank Turner / Everything Everything / Sigrid / The Japanese House / Gomez / Parcels / Jenny Lewis / Neneh Cherry / The Futureheads / Freya Ridings / No Vacation / Tom Grennan / Kero Kero Bonito / Ray BLK / Palace / Anna Calvi / Elder Island / Julia Jacklin / Girlpool / Pale Waves / A Place To Bury Strangers / Baxter Dury / Nilüfer Yanya / The Teskey Brothers / Celeste / Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever / The Magic Gang / Jonathan Wilson / Walking on Cars / The Twilight Sad / Foxing / Georgia / Laurel / The Big Moon / Teleman / Grace Carter / Let's Eat Grandma / Honeyblood / Nadine Shah / Viagra Boys / Sons of Kemet / IDER / Black Country, New Road / Dry Cleaning / Adekunle Gold / Billy Lockett / She Drew The Gun / LUCIA / Self Esteem / The Murder Capital / Martha / Penguin Cafe / Pixx / Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs / Crows / Indoor Pets / Whyte Horses / Low Island / Zuzu / Drahla / Childcare / Kingdom Choir / FLING / Saltwater Sun / Lazy Day / Queen Zee / Steam Down / Charlotte Carpenter / Michelle Wolf / Hat Fitz and Cara / STORME / Nish Kumar / Magick Mountain / David Morgan / Kapil Seshasayee / AVAERA / Rachel Parris / Glenn Moore / Marcel Lucont / Bill Jefferson / Felicity Ward / RHGCOVERS / Lola & the Cosmic Getaway / Kiri Pritchard-McLean / Lolly Adefope / Myra Dubois / Soft Play (fka Slaves) / The Comet Is Coming Show all bands
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Henham Park Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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Jun 09, 2019
Penguin Cafe

Reflektor Nils Frahm

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Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal, Hamburg, Germany
May 29, 2019 –
Jun 02, 2019
Long Division Festival 2019
We Are Scientists / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Avi Buffalo / Art Brut / Asian Dub Foundation / Skinny Living / Bill Ryder-Jones / Peter Hook & The Light / Bis / After School / One Day / Penguin Cafe / Alessi's Ark / Meursault / Menace Beach / Keston Cobblers Club / Liela Moss / Too Many T's / International Teachers of Pop / False Advertising / Cloth / Cowtown / Mik Artistiks Ego Trip / Two Weeks In Nashville / Graft / Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert / Imperial Wax / Dead Naked Hippies / Mi Mye / The Golden Age of Tv / Sly Antics / Weekend Recovery / Living Body / Sister John / Manuka / Ceiling Demons / Knuckle / ALLORA / Mansion of Snakes / Brooders / Sex Cells / Hello Cosmos / Jellyskin / Oliver Asadi / Sandra's Wedding / Cowgirl / Mayshe-Mayshe / Let Man Loose / Scott Wainwright / The New Nostalgia / Homesteads / Fossway / Cruel World / Seckar / Heir (UK) / Vibeology / Tiger by the Tail / Shake Your Halo Down / Knitting Grooves / Chloe Juliette Beswick / The Passing Fancy / Disguises / IAMOMEGA / Guy North / My Fake Empire / Dan Greaves / Fran Bundey / the Hyde and Macroscope / Alice Simmonds / Youth Anthems / Manchester Jazz Collective / Ancient Infinity / Joe Russell Brown Show all bands
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Long Division Festival 2019 Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
May 24, 2019
Penguin Cafe Bath Pavilion Bath, England, United Kingdom
May 15, 2019
Penguin Cafe Inchyra Arts Club Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom
Oct 09, 2018
Penguin Cafe EartH London, England, United Kingdom
Feb 18, 2018
Penguin Cafe Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Jan 27, 2018
Erased Tapes is ten. 2018
Rival Consoles / Ben Lukas Boysen / Penguin Cafe / Lubomyr Melnyk / Masayoshi Fujita / Anne Müller / Daniel Brandt & Eternal Something
Funkhaus Berlin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Dec 11, 2017
Penguin Cafe
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Union Chapel London, England, United Kingdom
Sep 13, 2017
Penguin Cafe / Allred & Broderick / Daniel Brandt & Eternal Something Colston Hall Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Sep 09, 2017
Penguin Cafe Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London, England, United Kingdom
Sep 08, 2017 –
Sep 09, 2017
Erased Tapes is ten. 2017
Kiasmos / Peter Broderick / Rival Consoles / Douglas Dare / Dawn of Midi / Penguin Cafe / Lubomyr Melnyk / Michael Price / Masayoshi Fujita
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London, England, United Kingdom
Aug 11, 2017
Penguin Cafe

Haldern Pop Festival

Alter Reitplatz Haldern, Germany
Jul 11, 2017
Penguin Cafe
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Shanghai Symphony Hall - Concert Hall Xuhui Qu, China
May 18, 2017
Penguin Cafe Omeara London, England, United Kingdom
May 05, 2017
Rubin Kodheli / Rival Consoles / Penguin Cafe
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Le Poisson Rouge New York, New York, United States
Mar 11, 2017
Penguin Cafe Saffron Hall Saffron Walden, England, United Kingdom
Jul 02, 2016
Penguin Cafe / Anna von Hausswolff
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Barbican Centre London, England, United Kingdom
Apr 27, 2016 –
May 02, 2016
Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2016
Corinne Bailey Rae / Lianne La Havas / Jamie Cullum / Hiatus Kaiyote / The Brand New Heavies / José James / Mulatu Astatke / Beverley Knight / Jacob Collier / Joanne Shaw Taylor / Elkie Brooks / Guy Garvey / Ibibio Sound Machine / Melt Yourself Down / Penguin Cafe / Becca Stevens / Marcus Strickland / Shiver / Marcus Strickland's Twi-Life / Mads Mathias / Randolph Matthews / Zoe Gilby / The Printmakers Show all bands
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Imperial gardens, Cheltenham Jazz Festival Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom

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 Poole, England, United Kingdom
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Jul 18 - 21, 2019
 Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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Jul 28 - 31, 2011
 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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  1. Air à Danser
  2. From the Colonies
  3. Steady State
  4. Telephone and Rubber Band
  5. Southern Jukebox Music
  6. The Sound of Someone You Love Who’s Going Away and It Doesn’t Matter
  7. In the Back of a Taxi
  8. Bean Fields
  9. Giles Farnaby's Dream
  10. Paul's Dance
  11. Dirt
  12. Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter
  13. Oscar Tango
  14. Numbers 1-4
  15. Air
  16. Music for a Found Harmonium
  17. Perpetuum Mobile
  18. Salty Bean Fumble
  19. Harry Piers
  20. Swing the Cat

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Concerts Per Year:

2027 1 concert
2026 5 concerts
2025 14 concerts
2024 8 concerts
2023 16 concerts
2022 15 concerts
2021 4 concerts
2020 6 concerts
2019 17 concerts
2018 3 concerts
2017 9 concerts
2016 2 concerts
2015 2 concerts
2014 13 concerts
2013 3 concerts
2012 1 concert
2011 12 concerts
2009 3 concerts
2007 3 concerts
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