Zappa Plays Zappa Concert History

The band debuted in 2006 with shows in Europe, Canada and the United States during May and June (the tour was also known as Zappa Plays Zappa - Tour de Frank'). The shows presented a collection of Frank Zappa's rock-oriented compositions from 1960s to 1980s. Apart from Dweezil Zappa on lead guitar, the band consisted of a mix of relatively unknown young musicians and older musicians who previously played with Frank Zappa. Among those, Napoleon Murphy Brock (sax...

Zappa Plays Zappa Tours & Concerts (Page 5)

Date Concert Venue Location
Jul 11, 2008 –
Jul 13, 2008
"North Sea Jazz Festival" / Charles Lloyd Quartet / Al Jarreau / Bootsy Collins / lee ritenour / Paul Simon / Chaka Khan / Victor Wooten / Buddy Guy / Zappa Plays Zappa / george Benson
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Rotterdam Ahoy Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Jul 03, 2008 –
Jul 13, 2008
Festival d'été de Québec 2008
Atreyu / Linkin Park / Silverstein / Crystal Castles / El Vez / Feist / Honeymoon Suite / Johnny Winter / Keb 'Mo / Ladytron / NOFX / Plain White T's / Primus / Secret Machines / Stone Temple Pilots / The Blind Boys of Alabama / The Ventures / The Wailers / The Weakerthans / Van Halen / Wycleff Jean / Zappa Plays Zappa Show all bands
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Festival d'Été de Québec Québec, Quebec, Canada
Jun 26, 2008 –
Jul 06, 2008
Summerfest 2008
Seether / Five Finger Death Punch / LeAnn Rimes / Eric Burdon And The Animals / Cross Canadian Ragweed / Cowboy Mouth / Little Big Town / Three Dog Night / Nonpoint / Drowning Pool / They Might Be Giants / Rusted Root / Think Floyd / Phil Vassar / Sevendust / Marcia Ball / Flobots / Anew Revolution / Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience / Lucinda Williams / Trace Adkins / Madison County / Shinedown / Dashboard Confessional / Daryl Steurmer / Blondie / BoDeans / Carrie Rodriguez / Eli Paperboy Reed and the True Love / James Hunter / Steve Miller Band / Jack's Mannequin / Miranda Lambert / Ryan Shaw / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue / Bonerama / Parlor Mob / Theory of a Deadman / Bryan Lee / Galactic featuring Boots Riley / Egypt Central / Michael Franti & Spearhead / Matisyahu / Backyard Tire Fire / Gin Blossoms / Girl Authority / A Tribute To James Brown featuring Bootsy Collins / Sean Kingston / Wayne Baker Brooks / Indigenous / Keller Williams / Filter / State Radio / O.A.R. / Yonder Mountain String Band / Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo / Railroad Earth / Skillet / Otis Taylor Band / This World Fair / Finger Eleven / Coheed and Cambria / Dieselboy & MC Messinian / The Crystal Method / Creedence Clearwater Revisited / GB Leighton / Marty Stuart / Saving Abel / Tim McGraw / Halfway to Hazard / Jason Aldean / Thievery Corporation / Plain White T's / The Frantic / Drive-By Truckers / Alejandro Escovedo / Db Bryant / Gomez / The Wailers / Paul Thorn / Ingrid Michaelson / Less Than Jake / Phil Lesh and Friends / Slightly Stoopid / Growing Nation / Billy Boy on Poison / JJ Grey & Mofro / Cracker / Rodrigo y Gabriela / The Zombies / Black Stone Cherry / Jackyl / Steel Pulse / 311 / Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival / Jakob Dylan and the Gold Mountain Rebels / Fiction Plane / The Beautiful Girls / Lady A (fka Lady Antebellum) / Earth, Wind & Fire / Gnarls Barkley / Paolo Nutini / Ryan Powers / The Polyphonic Spree / The Scarring Party / Paramore / The Dollyrots / Alicia Keys / Stephen Marley / The Cringe / The Dirty Dozen Brass Band / Travis Larson Band / Zappa Plays Zappa / Benevento/Russo Duo / Goldfinger / Lotus / people in planes / The Roots / Black Francis / Musiq Soulchild / Cheap Trick / The Alarmists / Voxhaul Broadcast / White Light Riot / Scythian / The Bravery / AutoVaughn / Throw the Fight / 12 Stones / RED / Suburban Legends / Vallejo Show all bands
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Henry Maier Festival Park Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Jun 14, 2008
Bonnaroo 2008 Day 3
Jack Johnson / B.B. King / Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings / Phil Lesh & Friends / Kanye West / Ben Folds / The Wood Brothers / Little Feat / Zappa Plays Zappa / Levon Helm / Dumpstaphunk / Pearl Jam
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Great Stage Park Manchester, Tennessee, United States
Show Duplicates for Jun 14, 2008
Jun 12, 2008 –
Jun 15, 2008
Bonnaroo Music Festival 2008
Kanye West / MGMT / Metallica / Jack Johnson / Vampire Weekend / Death Cab for Cutie / M.I.A / Iron & Wine / Sigur Rós / Tegan and Sara / The Raconteurs / The Avett Brothers / Broken Social Scene / Willie Nelson / Ben Folds / O.A.R. / B.B. King / Rilo Kiley / Gogol Bordello / Ladytron / Minus the Bear / Aimee Mann / Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Ghostland Observatory / Widespread Panic / Stephen Marley / The Swell Season / Mason Jennings / Little Feat / Ozomatli / Jakob Dylan / Two Gallants / Chris Rock / Dirty Dozen Brass Band / What Made Milwaukee Famous / Mike Birbiglia / Dark Star Orchestra / Phil Lesh & Friends / Zach Galifianakis / John Mulaney / Levon Helm / Brian Posehn / Zappa Plays Zappa / Lez Zeppelin / Jim Norton / Solomon Burke / Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band / Porter Batiste Stoltz / Janeane Garofalo / Michelle Buteau / Pearl Jam / Robert Plant / Alison Krauss Show all bands
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Unknown venue Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Dec 03, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa Enmore Theatre Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nov 22, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa

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Jubilee Auditorium Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Nov 18, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa

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Roseland Theater Portland, Oregon, United States
Nov 13, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa
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University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas, United States
Nov 01, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa Oakdale Theater Wallingford, Connecticut, United States
Show Duplicate for Nov 01, 2007
Oct 31, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa
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Oct 06, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa Queen Elisabeth Hall / Koningin Elisabethzaal Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
Sep 25, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa
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Shepherd's Bush Empire London, England, United Kingdom
Aug 23, 2007
Dweezil Zappa / Zappa Plays Zappa

Zappa Plays Zappa

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The Wiltern Los Angeles, California, United States
Aug 10, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa
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The Norva Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Jul 28, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa Evans Amphitheater, Cain Park Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States
Jul 22, 2007
Zappa Plays Zappa
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Murat Egyptian Room Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Jul 18, 2007 –
Jul 21, 2007
10,000 Lakes Festival
Family Groove Co. / New Primitives / Mike Mangan's Big Organ Trio / That 1 Guy / Wookiefoot / Galactic / Zappa Plays Zappa / Umphreys McGee / The Disco Biscuits / Everyone Orchestra / New Riders of the Purple Sage / moe. / The String Cheese Incident / The Tragically Hip / Pnuma Trio / Keller Williams / Toubab Krewe / Gov't Mule / Bob Weir & RatDog / The Derek Trucks Band Show all bands
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Soo Pass Ranch Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, United States
Apr 05, 2007
Bluesfest (Byron Bay)
"Bluesfest" (Byron Bay, AUS) / Ben Harper / Dave Matthews Band / John Mayer / Missy Higgins / Wolfmother / Rodriguez / Bela Fleck / Bonnie Raitt / Paolo Nutini / Bo Diddley / Ziggy Marley / Taj Mahal / Tony Joe White / The Roots / Lee Scratch Perry / Kasey Chambers / John Butler Trio / Fat Freddys Drop / The Black Sorrows / Sierra Leon's Refugee All Stars / Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO) / Fishbone / Gomez / Paul Kelly / Xavier Rudd / Ash Grunwald / Fred Eaglesmith / Kevin Welch & Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin / The Waifs / Feist / Rodrigo y Gabriela / Ben Kweller / Jackson Jackson / Amos Lee / Flogging Molly / Gogol Bordello / The NEO / Pappa Jam / Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience / Lee "Scratch" Perry / Tony Joe White / Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars / The Black Sorrows / Ziggy Marley / Fiona Boyes / 8 Ball Aitken / DJ Kurtis / Dallas Frasca / Dennis Wilson / Juzzie Smith / Sara Tindley / Slim Pickens / The Re-Mains / Will Conner / Eric Burdon & the Animals / Hacienda Brothers / Hat Fitz / Iain Archer / Kaplin / Mojo Webb / Old Man River / Ryan Shaw / The Bluezone / The Borderers / The Fumes / The Gin Club / The Live Room / The Magic Numbers / The McClymonts / The Pigram Brothers / Zappa Plays Zappa / Alice Russell / Ayo / Big Joe & The Dynaflows / Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges / Jez Mead / Ozomatli / Soulman / Sugarcane Collins / The Kill Devil Hills / Wiley Reed / Banawurun / Blue King Brown / Blue Shaddy / Bunna Lawrie Peace Tribe / CW Stoneking / Chris Smither / Ghostwriters / Imperial Crowns / Jim Moginie / Johnny Green's Blues Cowboys / Kaki King / Katchafire / Kev Carmody / Larry Carlton Band / Mihirangi / Robben Ford / Sunshiners / The NEO / Vanessa Amorosi / Wordfly / Ben Taylor / Imperial Crowns / Jan Preston / Jordan Miller / Nibs Van der Spuy / Normie Rowe / Piers Faccini / Timmy Curran / The Flairz / Joss Stone Show all bands
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Red Devil Park Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Dec 17, 2006
Zappa Plays Zappa Verizon Wireless Theater Houston, Texas, United States

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Sep 25, 2007
 London, England, United Kingdom
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Sep 24, 2015
 Waukegan, Illinois, United States
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Sep 24, 2015
 Waukegan, Illinois, United States
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Oct 11, 2016
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Oct 11, 2016
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Oct 11, 2016
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Dream Theater / Zappa Plays Zappa / Pain of Salvation / Beardfish on Jul 31, 2009 [149-small]

Dream Theater / Zappa Plays Zappa / Pain of Salvation / Beardfish
Jul 31, 2009
 Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, United States
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High Voltage Festival on Jul 24, 2010 [822-small]

High Voltage Festival
Jul 24 - 25, 2010
 London, England, United Kingdom
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Zappa Plays Zappa on Nov 13, 2007 [581-small]

Zappa Plays Zappa
Nov 13, 2007
 Austin, Texas, United States
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Zappa Plays Zappa
Nov 13, 2007
 Austin, Texas, United States
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Zappa Plays Zappa on Jan 2, 2009 [164-small]

Zappa Plays Zappa
Jan 2, 2009
 Portland, Oregon, United States
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Zappa Plays Zappa on Jan 2, 2009 [132-small]

Zappa Plays Zappa
Jan 2, 2009
 Portland, Oregon, United States
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Zappa Plays Zappa on Jun 20, 2006 [803-small]

Zappa Plays Zappa
Jun 20, 2006
 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Dweezil Zappa / Zappa Plays Zappa on Jan 31, 2014 [334-small]

Dweezil Zappa / Zappa Plays Zappa
Jan 31, 2014
 Portland, Oregon, United States
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Zappa Plays Zappa on Nov 18, 2007 [336-small]

Zappa Plays Zappa
Nov 18, 2007
 Portland, Oregon, United States
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Zappa Plays Zappa on Jul 14, 2012 [360-small]

Zappa Plays Zappa
Jul 14, 2012
 Bloomington, Illinois, United States
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Dream Theater / Zappa Plays Zappa / Bigelf / Scale The Summit on Aug 12, 2009 [914-small]

Dream Theater / Zappa Plays Zappa / Bigelf / Scale The Summit
Aug 12, 2009
 Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Dream Theater / Zappa Plays Zappa / Bigelf / Scale The Summit on Aug 12, 2009 [915-small]

Dream Theater / Zappa Plays Zappa / Bigelf / Scale The Summit
Aug 12, 2009
 Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Genres:

Rock
Experimental
Progressive Rock
Jazz Fusion
Zappa

Latest Setlist (10/18/2015):

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  1. Star Wars: Main Title
  2. Inca Roads
  3. Can't Afford No Shoes
  4. Sofa
  5. Po-Jama People
  6. Florentine Pogen
  7. Evelyn, a Modified Dog
  8. San Ber'dino
  9. Andy
  10. Sofa No. 2
  11. Outside Now
  12. The Grand Wazoo
  13. Suzy Creamcheese
  14. Society Pages
  15. Magic Fingers
  16. Sinister Footwear
  17. Cosmik Debris
  18. Drum Solo
  19. Apostrophe
  20. Zomby Woof
  21. Muffin Man

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Concerts Per Year:

2019 1 concert
2018 1 concert
2016 3 concerts
2015 13 concerts
2014 7 concerts
2013 3 concerts
2012 4 concerts
2011 10 concerts
2010 8 concerts
2009 25 concerts
2008 10 concerts
2007 14 concerts
2006 14 concerts

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has Zappa Plays Zappa had?

Zappa Plays Zappa has had 113 concerts.

What genre is Zappa Plays Zappa?

Zappa Plays Zappa is most often considered to be Rock, Experimental, Progressive Rock, Jazz Fusion, and Zappa.

When was the last Zappa Plays Zappa concert?

The last Zappa Plays Zappa concert was on September 15, 2019 at The National in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

What setlist does Zappa Plays Zappa play live?

The songs that Zappa Plays Zappa performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the October 18, 2015 concert at Royal Festival Hall in London, England, United Kingdom:

  1. Star Wars: Main Title
  2. Inca Roads
  3. Can't Afford No Shoes
  4. Sofa
  5. Po-Jama People
  6. Florentine Pogen
  7. Evelyn, a Modified Dog
  8. San Ber'dino
  9. Andy
  10. Sofa No. 2
  11. Outside Now
  12. The Grand Wazoo
  13. Suzy Creamcheese
  14. Society Pages
  15. Magic Fingers
  16. Sinister Footwear
  17. Cosmik Debris
  18. Drum Solo
  19. Apostrophe
  20. Zomby Woof
  21. Muffin Man

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