Public Concert History

Public is a three-piece indie pop group hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio. The band consists of John Vaughan on lead vocals and guitar, Ben Lapps on drums, and Matt Alvarado on bass. They formed in 2008, initially starting as a songwriting duo with Vaughan and Lapps before Alvarado joined to complete the current lineup of Public.

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Public Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026) (Page 7)

Date Concert Venue Location
Mar 20, 2015
Public
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Aisle 5 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Mar 12, 2015
Public The Demo St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nov 15, 2014
Walk the Moon / Public

Walk The Moon / Public

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Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Nov 02, 2014
Public Bowery Ballroom New York, New York, United States
Nov 01, 2014
Public / Walk the Moon

Shut Up and Tour

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The Sinclair Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Oct 30, 2014
Public / Walk the Moon

Walk The Moon / Public

Ottobar Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Oct 29, 2014
Public / Walk the Moon
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Visulite Theatre Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Oct 25, 2014
Walk the Moon / Public

Walk the Moon / PUBLIC

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Trees Dallas, Texas, United States
Oct 23, 2014
Walk the Moon / Public recordBar Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Oct 22, 2014
Walk the Moon / Public
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The Ready Room St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Sep 25, 2014 –
Sep 27, 2014
Midpoint Music Festival 2014
Across Tundras / Adia Victoria / Alex G / All Them Witches / Alpha Consumer / Ancient Warfare / Apache Dropout / Arum Rae / Automagik / Baby Bee / Bailiff / Barrence Whitfield & The Savages / Baskery / Bella Clava / Bethesda / Black Owls / Blaire Alise & the Bombshells / Blues Control / Body Language / Bonesetters / Bulletville / Bully / Caroline Glaser / Chromeo / Colony House / Comrade Question / Corners / Coves / Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands / Culture Queer / Darlene / Deafheaven / Dessa / Drowners / DVA / Dylan LeBlanc / Earth / EMA / Empires / Ex Hex / Ex-Cult / Fairmount Girls / Fathers / Fists of Love / Flint Eastwood / Fort Wilson Riot / Frontier Folk Nebraska / Froth / Gardens & Villa / Gizmo / Goodbye June / Great Caesar / HEAF / Heavy Hinges / Holy Ghost Tent Revival / Honey and Houston / Honey Locust / Honeyspiders / Indigo Wild / Injecting Strangers / Jeecy and the Jungle / Jessica Lea Mayfield / Joseph Arthur / Joshua Powell & The Great Train Robbery / Juniper Rising / Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds / Knox Hamilton / Lab Partners / LandLady / Left Lane Cruiser / Leggy / Liturgy / Machineheart / Magnolia Sons / Margo & the Price Tags / Mary Bragg / Maserati / Milagres / Miniature Tigers / Miss Geo / Modoc / Molly Sullivan / Motel Beds / Mr. Elevator & the Brain Hotel / Mustered Courage / Mutual Benefit / My Gold Mask / Nikki Lane / OK Go / Old City / Old Hundred / Panda Bear / Pike 27 / Pontiak / Pop Goes The Evil / Prim / Public / Pujol / Quiet Life / Real Estate / River Whyless / Rubblebucket / Saintseneca / Saturn Batteries / Scott and Charlene's Wedding / Shivering Timbers / Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor / Smasherman / Sol Cat / Speedy Ortiz / St. Paul & the Broken Bones / State Song / Steelism / Sun Kil Moon / The Afghan Whigs / The Almighty Get Down / The Appleseed Collective / The Ghost Wolves / The Infatuations / The Locals / The Nepotist / The Raveonettes / The Ready Stance / The Ridges / The Tillers / The Tontons / The Yugos / Twin Smith / Tycho / Us, Today / Vic and Gab / Violent Mae / Warren Byrom & Fabled Canelands / Watter / Why? / Wild Leaves / Woody Pines / Wussy / Wyatt Blair / Xoe Wise / Young Heirlooms Show all bands
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Various Locations Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Sep 20, 2014
Young the Giant / Public 4th Street Live! Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Jul 25, 2014
Public Fountain Square Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Mar 15, 2014
SXSW
Gripin / Blondfire / Decorator / Sirsy / Kiven / Twenty7 / The Ivorys / Public / Yellow Red Sparks
Hyde Park Bar and Grill Westgate Austin, Texas, United States
Nov 30, 2013
Healing Power / Public Sanctuary, The Southgate House Revival Newport, Kentucky, United States
Sep 26, 2013 –
Sep 28, 2013
Midpoint Music Festival 2013
The Breeders / A Delicate Motor / Adm / Allan Pray / Alone at 3AM / American Royalty / Angela Perley / Archer's Paradox / Bad Veins / Bare Mutants / Baths / Bear's Den / Bella Clava / Bella Ruse / Ben Lapps / Bethesda / Birds of Chicago / Black Owls / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / Black Signal / Bleached / Caveman / Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer At A Bar / Cody Chesnutt / Come On Caboose / Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons / Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands / Culture Queer / Daap Girls / Damien Jurado / Darlene / Daughter / Dead Fame / Dead Gaze / Deap Vally / Dent May / Doe Eye / DTCV / Dutch Pink / Eclipse Movement / Electric Citizen / Fairmount Girls / Fluffer / Folk Soul Revival / Fort Shame / Fort Wilson Riot / Frontier Folk Nebraska / Goodbye June / Goose / Grandfather Child / Great Divide / Ha Ha Tonka / Halvsies / Helado Negro / Honeyspiders / Hunters / Indigo Wild / Izzy and the Catastrophics / James Wallace & The Naked Light / Jeecy and the Jungle / Jerome LOL / Jody Stapleton and the Generals / Johnathan Rice / Juniper Rising / Justin Walter / Kelly Thomas / Kentucky Knife Fight / Kishi Bashi / Kurt Vile / Larry and His Flask / Leogun / Low Cut Connie / Mad Anthony / Magnolia Mountain / Magnolia Sons / Metz / Modoc / Molly Sullivan / Murder by Death / Mutts / Nat Baldwin / Nativity Singers / Nerves Junior / New Vega / Nicholas David / Ohio Knife / On An On / Perfume Genius / Phox / Plastic Inevitables / Potty Mouth / Psychic Twin / PUBLIC / Pure X / Redkattseven / San Fermin / Saturday Looks Good To Me / Saturn Batteries / Seabird / Secret Colours / Shivering Timbers / Shuggie Otis / Sidewalk Chalk / Silver Tongues / Snowmine / Sohio / Sol Cat / South of France / Spectrals / Sphynx / Strange Vine / Sugar Baron / Sun Country / Swift Technique / Sylvana Joyce & the Moment / The Cincy Brass / The Defibulators / The Delta Saints / The Dumb Easies / The Ghost Wolves / The Grahams / The Happy Maladies / The Harlequins / The Head and the Heart / The Infatuations / The Kickaways / Kickback / The Locals / The Mitchells / The Natives / The Perfect Children / The Pinstripes / The Ready Stance / The Regrettes / The Ridges / The Shilohs / The Speedbumps / The Switchmen / The Technicolors / The Thermals / The Tiger Lillies / The Whiskey Gentry / The YEAH Babies / Toy Soldiers / Tweens / Twin Peaks / Us, Today / Vandaveer / Warpaint / We Are Snapdragon / Wild Cub / Wild Leaves / Young Empires / Young Heirlooms / You, You're Awesome / Youth Lagoon Show all bands
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Various Locations Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Jul 12, 2013
Bunbury Music Festival
"Bunbury Music Festival" / Fun. / Walk the Moon / Tegan and Sara / Devotchka / Tokyo Police Club / Youngblood Hawke / Delta Rae / Sky Ferreira / The Features / Red Wanting Blue / The Dunwells / Everest / Those Darlins / Beat Club / American Authors / Seabird / Buffalo Killers / Jay Nash / Josh Eagle / We Are Snapdragon / State Song / Old Baby / Alone at 3AM / Public / The Mitchells / Pete Dressman / Billy Wallace and the Virginia Blues Show all bands
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Sawyer Point Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Jul 12, 2013 –
Jul 14, 2013
Bunbury Music Festival
Fun. / Walk the Moon / Tegan and Sara / Devotchka / Tokyo Police Club / Youngblood Hawke / Delta Rae / Sky Ferreira / The Features / Red Wanting Blue / The Dunwells / Everest / Those Darlins / Beat Club / American Authors / Seabird / Buffalo Killers / Jay Nash / Josh Eagle / We Are Snapdragon / State Song / Ohio Knife / Old Baby / Public / Alone at 3AM / The Mitchells / Pete Dressman / Billy Wallace / MGMT / Cake / twentyonepilots / Atlas Genius / Chairlift / We Are Scientists / Oberhofer / Robert DeLong / Civil Twilight / The Mowglis / Empires / Ambassadors / Vacationer / Bear Hands / The Pinstripes / You, You're Awesome / Ben walz band / Christopher Paul Stelling / Culture Queer / Black Owls / The Bears of Blue River / Messerly & Ewing / New Vega / The Ready Stance / Tim Carr / Taylor Alexander / Margaret Darling / The National / Belle & Sebastian / Yo La Tengo / Camera Obscura / Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Night Terrors of 1927 / A Silent Film / Gregory Alan Isakov / Joe Purdy / Savoir Adore / Daniel Martin Moore / Benjamin Francis Leftwich / Gringo Star / Daap Girls / The Hiders / Channing & Quinn / The Harlequins / The Upset Victory / Mia Carruthers / Mark Utley / Ben Knight Show all bands
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Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Show Duplicate for Jul 12, 2013
Sep 20, 2012
Paper Route / Public MOTR Pub Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Aug 10, 2012
Public 20th Century Theatre Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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Why Don't We / AJ Mitchell / Public / Asher Angel
Dec 19, 2019
 Southaven, Mississippi, United States
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 Southaven, Mississippi, United States
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 Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Nov 15, 2014
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sep 23 - 25, 2016
 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Sep 23 - 25, 2016
 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Sep 23 - 25, 2016
 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Sep 23 - 25, 2016
 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Latest Setlist (11/19/2021):

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  2. Der Sumpf (Sinfonie der Großstadt)
  3. Im Licht
  4. Der Rhythmus Der Maschinen
  5. Progress
  6. People Will Always Need Coal
  7. Sputnik
  8. Night Mail
  9. Gib Mir Das Licht
  10. Blue Heaven
  11. Spitfire
  12. All Out
  13. Lichtspiel II: Schwarz Weiss Grau
  14. Lichtspiel III: Symphonie Diagonale
  15. The Other Side
  16. Go!
  17. People, Let's Dance
  18. Gagarin
  19. Everest

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2026 1 concert
2021 3 concerts
2020 27 concerts
2019 27 concerts
2018 23 concerts
2017 25 concerts
2016 8 concerts
2015 8 concerts
2014 12 concerts
2013 3 concerts
2012 2 concerts
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