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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Tortoise Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026) (Page 18)

Date Concert Venue Location
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 / Washed Out / Broken Social Scene / Best Coast / Public Enemy / Cults / Panda Bear / Future Islands / Raekwon / Sharon Van Etten / Atlas Sound / Active Child / Kill The Noise / Woods / No Age / Bear In Heaven / Fucked Up / Bowerbirds / Lucero / Tortoise / Akron/Family / Balmorhea / The Rosebuds / Javelin / 9th Wonder / Marissa Nadler / Harlem / The Golden Filter / Kylesa / Megafaun / Sleepy Sun / Dungen / Pictureplane / Treasure Fingers / The Love Language / Ponderosa / The Ocean / Floating Action / Erin McKeown / Skyzoo / Ben Frost / Richard Buckner / Weedeater / Mountains / Harvey Milk / Dex Romweber Duo / American Aquarium / Nomo / Pontiak / Caitlin Cary / Pattern Is Movement / Kooley High / First Rate People / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Golden Boys / The Kingsbury Manx / All Tiny Creatures / Cannabis Corpse / Spider Bags / HORSEBACK / Locrian / Collections of Colonies of Bees / Tigercity / I Was Totally Destroying It / Deakin / Ear Pwr / Double Dagger / Actual Proof / Birds of Avalon / Kaze / U.S. Christmas / Lonnie Walker / Merlin / Tyler Woods / Big Remo / Greg Davis / Hammer No More The Fingers / Veelee / Burning Star Core / Sightings / The Moaners / Thee Tom Hardy / Plague / Midtown Dickens / Yip-Yip / Brutal Knights / Jon Mueller / Double Negative / Schooner / Bright Young Things / The Dynamite Brothers / The Remix Project / Bellafea / Whatever Brains / Gray Young / Ned Rothenberg / Goner / Followed By Static / Luego / Max Indian / AMINAL / Aquarelle / The Light Pines / John Howie Jr. & the Rosewood Bluff / Ryan Gustafson / Wet Mango / Old Bricks / Juan Huevos / Motor Skills / In the Year of the Pig / Jeb Bishop / The Monologue Bombs / The Alpha Theory / The Exmonkeys / DJ George Brazil / Thien / Black Congo / The War on Drugs 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 And 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, Millennium Park 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
Jun 26, 2010
Tortoise
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The Bishop Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Jun 25, 2010
Tortoise Frankie's Toledo, Ohio, United States
Jun 24, 2010
Tortoise Paparazzi Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Jun 23, 2010
Tortoise Le Poisson Rouge New York, New York, United States
Jun 22, 2010
Tortoise The Bug Jar Rochester, New York, United States

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  1. Night Gang
  2. Monica
  3. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men
  4. Layered Presence
  5. I Set My Face to the Hillside
  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
  16. Rated OG

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 59 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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