Tortoise Concert History

Tortoise's almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization. The group gained significant attention from their early career. The members have roots in Chicago's fertile music scene, playing in various indie rock and punk groups. Formed in 1990, Tortoise was among the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk that had dominated indie rock for years.

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Past Tortoise Tours & Concerts (Page 17)

Date Concert Venue Location
Nov 18, 2010
Tortoise Teatro Kursaal Santa Lucia Bari, Apulia, Italy
Nov 17, 2010
Broken Social Scene / Tortoise / Menomena
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Élysée Montmartre Paris, Île-de-France, France
Nov 16, 2010
Broken Social Scene / Tortoise
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KOKO London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 15, 2010
Broken Social Scene / Tortoise KOKO London, England, United Kingdom
Sep 13, 2010
Tortoise Northside Tavern Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Sep 12, 2010
Tortoise / Imperial China Black Cat Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Sep 11, 2010
Hopscotch Music Festival
"Hopscotch Music Festival" / Public Enemy / No Age / The Love Language / Bear In Heaven / Nomo / Tortoise / Dex Romweber Duo / U.S. Christmas / Weedeater / Floating Action / Kylesa
Various Venues Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Sep 10, 2010
Tortoise / Greg Davis & Ben Vida
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The Orange Peel Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Sep 10, 2010 –
Sep 11, 2010
Hopscotch Music Festival 2010
Americans in France / The War on Drugs / Kaze / Javelin / The Alpha Theory / Schooner / Locrian / Bellafea / The Moaners / The Light Pines / Spider Bags / Bowerbirds / Ned Rothenberg / The Dynamite Brothers / Actual Proof / Ponderosa / Nomo / The Golden Filter / Pictureplane / Mountains / Richard Buckner / Ear Pwr / Kylesa / Plague / Big Remo / Caitlin Cary / Lonnie Walker / John Howie Jr. & the Rosewood Bluff / Deakin / Future Islands / The Kingsbury Manx / Washed Out / Weedeater / Harvey Milk / Sightings / Merlin / Pattern Is Movement / U.S. Christmas / HORSEBACK / DJ George Brazil / Kill The Noise / Floating Action / In the Year of the Pig / Gray Young / Bright Young Things / Erin McKeown / Dungen / Woods / Marissa Nadler / Golden Boys / Sharon Van Etten / Skyzoo / Megafaun / Tigercity / All Tiny Creatures / Jeb Bishop / Double Dagger / Thien / Lucero / Atlas Sound / Kooley High / I Was Totally Destroying It / Thee Tom Hardy / The Ocean / The Monologue Bombs / Fucked Up / Best Coast / Raekwon / Keith Fullerton Whitman / The Love Language / Balmorhea / Dex Romweber Duo / Cults / Veelee / Treasure Fingers / American Aquarium / Harlem / First Rate People / Double Negative / Goner / Ben Frost / Hammer No More The Fingers / Active Child / Birds of Avalon / Tyler Woods / Black Congo / Sleepy Sun / Wet Mango / The Exmonkeys / Akron/Family / Old Bricks / Bear In Heaven / Luego / AMINAL / No Age / Aquarelle / Greg Davis / Midtown Dickens / Brutal Knights / The Remix Project / Max Indian / Ryan Gustafson / Public Enemy / The Rosebuds / Cannabis Corpse / Whatever Brains / 9th Wonder / Pontiak / Collections of Colonies of Bees / Burning Star Core / Yip-Yip / Jon Mueller / Followed By Static / Juan Huevos / Motor Skills / Broken Social Scene / Panda Bear / Tortoise Show all bands
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Kings Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Sep 09, 2010
Tortoise / Greg Davis The Canal Club Richmond, Virginia, United States
Sep 08, 2010
Tortoise / Greg Davis World Cafe Live - Downstairs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Sep 07, 2010
Tortoise / Greg Davis
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Paradise Rock Club Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Sep 06, 2010
Tortoise / Greg Davis Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Sep 05, 2010
Tortoise / Greg Davis
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Higher Ground South Burlington, Vermont, United States
Sep 04, 2010
All Tomorrow's Parties (Monticello)
"All Tomorrow's Parties" (Monticello) / Sonic Youth / Explosions in the Sky / The Breeders / Fuck Buttons / Tortoise / Bardo Pond / Beak> / The Books / Sleepy Sun / APSE / Avi Buffalo / Hallogallo 2010 - Michael Rother And Friends Perform The Music Of NEU! Show all bands
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Kutshers Country Club & Resort Monticello, New York, United States
Sep 03, 2010
moe. / Tortoise / Nas / Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

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The Big Lawn Mohawk, New York, United States
Sep 03, 2010 –
Sep 05, 2010
All Tomorrow's Parties - ATP 2010
Explosions in the Sky / Kurt Vile / Raekwon / The Breeders / The Black Angels / The Brian Jonestown Massacre / Iggy & the Stooges / Girls / Mudhoney / Sonic Youth / Tortoise / Sleep / Fucked Up / Fuck Buttons / Avi Buffalo / The Books / GZA/Genius / Wooden Shjips / Vivian Girls / Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions / Beak> / Scientists / Papa M / Jim Jarmusch / Sunn O))) & Boris / APSE / Sian Alice Group / DJ Kool Herc / Hallogallo 2010 / T Model Ford Show all bands
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Monticello, New York, United States
Sep 02, 2010
Tortoise
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Big Orbit Soundlab Space Buffalo, New York, United States
Jul 29, 2010
Tortoise Jay Pritzker Pavilion Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jul 10, 2010
Tortoise / Escape Act Whelans Dublin Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Jul 09, 2010
"Kongsberg Jazz Festival" / Bill Frisell / McCoy Tyner / Tortoise

Kongsberg Jazz Festival

Various Venues Kongsberg, Norway
Jul 07, 2010
Tortoise

Kongsberg Jazz

Tubaloon Kongsberg, Norway

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Genres:

Indie
Indie Rock
Experimental
Electronica
Instrumental
Noise Rock
Post-Rock
Vyrzukhisuc-Artiest
Experimental Rock
Math Rock
Krautrock
Slowcore
Noise Pop
Jazz Rock
Chicago Indie
Double Drumming
Warp
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  3. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men
  4. Layered Presence
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  6. Works and Days
  7. Gesceap
  8. Prepare Your Coffin
  9. Dot/Eyes
  10. Ten-Day Interval
  11. Vexations
  12. The Lithium Stiffs
  13. Crest
  14. The Equator
  15. Swung From the Gutters
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Concerts Per Year:

2026 58 concerts
2025 12 concerts
2024 5 concerts
2023 10 concerts
2022 5 concerts
2020 3 concerts
2019 6 concerts
2017 33 concerts
2016 118 concerts
2015 2 concerts
2014 11 concerts
2013 13 concerts
2012 35 concerts
2011 16 concerts
2010 55 concerts
2009 64 concerts
2008 16 concerts
2007 31 concerts
2006 10 concerts
2005 43 concerts
2004 76 concerts
2003 19 concerts
2002 12 concerts
2001 81 concerts
2000 3 concerts
1999 13 concerts
1998 78 concerts
1997 12 concerts
1996 62 concerts
1995 14 concerts
1994 14 concerts
1993 2 concerts
1992 1 concert
1968 1 concert
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