BeatleConcert

BeatleConcert 2025

It's a perfect metaphor, that The Beatles' performing careers started in a cavern and ended on a rooftop. But the seven-year climb wasn't linear. After three punishing concert tours around the globe, the Beatles abandoned the road in 1966. And turned inward.

The second half of The Beatles' career resulted in their most indelible material: the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, The White Album, Let It Be, and Abbey Road, and songs like "Something," "Hey Jude," "Come Together," "Here Comes the Sun," "A Day in the Life," "Helter Skelter," and "Strawberry Fields Forever." Aside from two brief television appearances, the most remarkable songs in The Beatles catalog were delivered to the masses only through recordings.

None were ever performed by their makers in front of a live audience.

Join Strawberry Theatre Workshop on May 29-30-31 for a tribute to the songs that the Beatles never played in concert. Paul Hiraga of Downpilot leads an all-star band for the fifth BeatleConcert at 12th Ave Arts on Capitol Hill. No costumes, no accents, and no Beatlemania. Just the music they made played live in a way that The Beatles themselves never knew.