Mesa Amphitheatre

Concert venue in Mesa, Arizona

Mesa Amphitheater
Website

Address	263 North Center Street Mesa, AZ 85201
Type	Amphitheatre
Seating type	lawn
Capacity	4,950
Opened	1979
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Mesa Amphitheatre is an outdoor concert venue with lawn seating located in Mesa, Arizona. It opened in 1979^[1] and has a maximum capacity of 4,950 people.

The amphitheatre has kept its original design since opening and has become a popular destination for small and big acts alike.

Located in central Mesa, it has a tiered lawn large enough to attract popular events, yet intimate enough for everyone to have a good view of the stage.

Concerts

List of Concerts

Utopia – May 19, 1980
The Allman Brothers Band – August 8, 1980, with Papa John Creach, August 6, 1989, June 4, 1993, July 7, 1995 and July 27, 1999, with The Susan Tedeschi Band
Al Stewart – September 12, 1980
The Pretenders – September 6, 1981
Frank Zappa – October 10, 1981
Rick Springfield – March 12, 1982, with The Innocents
The Clash – June 13, 1982, with The English Beat
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – July 25, 1982, with The Jetzons, September 14, 1983 and May 17, 1994, with The Crash Test Dummies
The Jerry Garcia Band – October 30, 1982, with Bobby and the Midnites
Mahogany Rush – February 2, 1983
Roxy Music – May 4, 1983, with Berlin
Adam Ant – May 13, 1983, with INXS
Joan Armatrading – June 27, 1983, with David Bromberg
Meat Loaf & His Neverland Express – August 15, 1983
The Animals – August 27, 1983
Billy Idol – March 10, 1984
The Michael Schenker Group – March 25, 1984
Saxon – April 11, 1984, with Accept
King Crimson – June 10, 1984
David Gilmour – June 19, 1984
Ratt – August 4, 1984, with Fastway and Mama's Boys
Air Supply – April 11, 1985
Simple Minds - April 13, 1986 with The Call (band).
Santana – August 4, 1985, October 1, 1986, October 7, 1988, September 2, 1991, June 3, 1994, with The Robert Cray Band and May 27, 1995
The Smiths – August 30, 1986, with Phranc
George Thorogood & The Destroyers – September 22, 1986
R.E.M. – September 23, 1986, with Guadalcanal Diary
Steve Winwood – October 15, 1986, with Howard Jones
New Order – October 29, 1986 and April 25, 1989, with Throwing Muses
Europe - April 24, 1987
Howard Jones – May 13, 1987 and July 13, 1989
The Cure – July 18, 1987
Love and Rockets – May 6, 1988 and July 17, 1989, with The Godfathers
The Beach Boys – May 20, 1988
Hall & Oates – July 25, 1988
Bob Dylan – July 30, 1988, September 12, 1990 and October 20, 1996, with The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Bryan Ferry – September 13, 1988
Jimmy Page – September 17, 1988
Midnight Oil – November 7, 1988
Eddie Money – March 24, 1989
The Violent Femmes – June 3, 1989
Public Image Ltd – November 11, 1989
Great White – March 3, 1990, with The McAuley Schenker Group and Havana Black
Alice Cooper – April 10, 1990 and August 26, 1997, with Dokken, Slaughter and Warrant
Tracy Chapman – May 22, 1990
The Red Hot Chili Peppers – June 1, 1990, with The Meat Puppets
David Byrne – June 6, 1990
The Ramones – August 6, 1990, with The Tom Tom Club and October 18, 1992, with Social Distortion
Melissa Etheridge – September 13, 1990 and August 27, 1992
Dio – September 25, 1990, with Love/Hate and Cold Sweat
The Don't Waste Arizona Benefit Concert – December 14, 1990
The Black Crowes – June 12, 1991, with Jellyfish, October 17, 1992, with The Urban Shakedancers and May 23, 1995, with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Siouxsie and the Banshees – February 7, 1992
Roxette – March 15, 1992
Live – March 24, 1992, with Blind Melon
Pearl Jam – May 9, 1992, with Tribe After Tribe and November 6–7, 1993, with The Butthole Surfers and Bill Miller
The Beastie Boys – August 2, 1992, with The House of Pain and L7 and Ken Bialobrzeski and Jason Gabriel
Sonic Youth – September 27, 1992, with The Meat Puppets
Morrissey – November 1, 1992
Black Sabbath – November 10, 1992, with Exodus and Skew Siskin
The Stone Temple Pilots – June 30, 1993, with The Butthole Surfers and The Flaming Lips and June 13, 2000
REO Speedwagon – July 4, 1993
Cypress Hill – September 15, 1993 and July 24, 2014, with Stephen Marley
Robert Plant – October 19, 1993
Jethro Tull – November 9, 1993
Primus – November 20, 1993, with The Melvins, August 22, 1995, with Mike Watt, November 14, 1997, with Limp Bizkit and M.I.R.V., December 9, 2006, with Gogol Bordello and October 20, 2011
The Cocteau Twins – April 9, 1994
311 – July 10, 1994, January 27, 1996, May 24, 2000, with Incubus, October 28, 2001, with Alien Ant Farm, July 19, 2003, with Something Corporate, August 3, 2005, with Unwritten Law and A Change of Pace, September 7, 2006, with The Wailers Band and Pepper and August 28, 2012, with Slightly Stoopid and SOJA
Soundgarden – July 18, 1994 and November 29, 1996
Helmet – July 27, 1994, with The Rollins Band and Sausage
Danzig – November 12, 1994, with Type O Negative and Godflesh and May 2, 2003, with Opeth and Nile
Tool – November 19, 1994 and November 1, 1996, with Cows
Phish – December 9, 1994
Bad Religion – February 25, 1995, with Guttermouth and SNFU, March 29, 2002, with Less Than Jake and Hot Water Music and August 29, 2014, with The Offspring, Pennywise and Stiff Little Fingers
Sarah McLachlan – March 4, 1995 and November 28, 1997
Steve Perry – March 11, 1995
Slayer – March 12, 1995, with Machine Head and Biohazard, May 1, 1999, with Meshuggah and Sick of It All, August 7, 2002, with Soulfly and In Flames and July 21, 2006, with Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon and Thine Eyes Bleed
The Dave Matthews Band – May 14, with Big Head Todd and the Monsters and August 3, with Dionne Farris, 1995
Ozzy Osbourne – October 30, 1995, with Fear Factory
Blues Traveler – November 19, 1995
RatDog – December 3, 1995, with The Edwin McCain Band
Alanis Morissette – January 6, 1996
Jackson Browne – March 6, 1996
Ministry – May 11, 1996, with The Jesus Lizard and Laika & The Cosmonauts
The Butthole Surfers – July 1, 1996, with The Supersuckers, The Toadies and The Reverend Horton Heat
Crosby, Stills & Nash – August 14, 1996
Girls Against Boys – September 26, 1996, with The Stanford Prison Experiment
Alan Parsons – October 14, 1996
The G3 Tour – October 15, 1996
ZZ Top – November 13, 1996, with The Reverend Horton Heat
Pantera – February 9, with Clutch and Neurosis and November 12, with Anthrax and Coal Chamber, 1997 and February 2, 2001, with Soulfly and Morbid Angel
KoЯn – March 6, 1997, with Limp Bizkit and Helmet
Megadeth – June 13, 1997 and June 6, 1998, with Sevendust
Sammy Hagar – August 29, 1997
Sheryl Crow – September 10, 1997, with Wilco and Michael Penn
Jane's Addiction – December 4, 1997, with Goldie
Clutch – March 21, 1998
Everclear – May 22, 1998, with Marcy Playground and Fastball
Widespread Panic – May 27, 1998, with G. Love & Special Sauce and Galactic
Petra – September 19, 1998
Bauhaus – September 24, 1998 and November 3, 2005
The Deftones – November 6, 1998, October 27, 2000, with Incubus and Taproot, November 1, 2003, with Clutch, Poison the Well and Denali, May 11, 2007, with The Fall of Troy and June 9, 2011, with The Dillinger Escape Plan and Le Butcherettes
Rob Zombie – November 27, 1998, with Fear Factory and Monster Magnet, March 12, 2002, with The Damned and April 27, 2006, with Lacuna Coil and Bullet for My Valentine
Seal – May 29, 1999
Hole – June 2, 1999, with Queens of the Stone Age
Limp Bizkit – June 26, 1999, with Kid Rock & Twisted Brown Trucker and Staind
Sting – October 31, 1999
Blink-182 – November 2, 1999, with Silverchair and Fenix TX
Creed – November 7, 1999, with Oleander
Queensrÿche – November 10, 1999, with doubleDrive
Godsmack – November 17, 1999, with Reveille
Kid Rock & Twisted Brown Trucker – December 2, 1999, with Powerman 5000
Beck – April 22, 2000, with Cafe Tacuba
The Smashing Pumpkins – May 19, 2000
No Doubt – August 2, 2000, with Lit
Linkin Park – April 17, 2001
Green Day – July 24, 2001, with The Living End
3 Doors Down – July 29, 2001, with Lifehouse and Tantric and September 7, 2003, with Our Lady Peace and Seether
Incubus – November 25, 2001 and September 5, 2007, with The Bravery and Simon Dawes
System of a Down – February 15, 2002, with Clutch and Mindless Self Indulgence
Third Day – March 1, 2002
The Jars of Clay – May 6, 2002
Garbage – May 29, 2002, with The White Stripes and Abandoned Pools
Nickelback – May 30, 2002, with Jerry Cantrell and Default
John Mayer – August 21, 2002, with Guster and The John Butler Trio
Moby – August 22, 2002
Jimmy Eat World – October 4, 2002, with The Donnas
The Strokes – November 10, 2002, with The Moldy Peaches and March 21, 2006
Insane Clown Posse – February 16, 2003 and November 9, 2004
Audioslave – March 14, 2003, with The Burning Brides
The Honda Civic Tour – June 3, 2003, June 8, 2004 and April 13, 2008
The Nintendo Fusion Tour – August 6, 2003 and October 26, 2005
The White Stripes – September 26, 2003, with The Soledad Brothers
Staind – November 4, 2003, with Sevendust and Lo-Pro, November 18, 2005, with P.O.D., Taproot and Flyleaf and May 10, 2006, with Three Days Grace
The Jägermeister Music Tour – November 20, 2003 and May 7, 2004
Something Corporate – March 20, 2004, with Yellowcard, The Format and Steriogram
The Offspring – April 20, 2004, with The (International) Noise Conspiracy and theStart and June 1, 2009, with The Alkaline Trio and The Street Dogs
Common – August 26, 2004, with Slightly Stoopid and Damian Marley
O.A.R. – August 31, 2004, with Guster and Matt Nathanson
Guster – September 1, 2004
Yes – September 14, 2004, with Dream Theater
The Pixies – September 20, 2004, with The Distillers and September 24, 2010, with The Fuck Buttons
The Used – October 12, 2004, with Atreyu, Head Automatica and The Bronx and May 9, 2008, with Straylight Run, The Street Drum Corps and Army of Me
Good Charlotte – November 1, 2004, with Sum 41 and July 21, 2008, with Boys Like Girls, Metro Station and The Maine
Yellowcard – November 24, 2004
Modest Mouse – February 15, 2005, with Mason Jennings and May 12, 2007, with Man Man
The Taste of Chaos Tour – April 2, 2005 and February 17, 2006
The Sounds of the Underground Music Festival – July 20, 2005, July 26, 2006 and August 5, 2007
Dropping Daylight – September 20, 2005
My Chemical Romance – September 27, 2005, with The Alkaline Trio and Reggie and the Full Effect
MxPx – November 16, 2005, with Relient K and Rufio
Spoon – November 19, 2005, with Earlimart, The Black Heart Procession, The Mates of State, Apollo Sunshine and Hellogoodbye
Flogging Molly – March 17, 2006, March 17, with The Street Dogs and Twopointeight and 18, with Voodoo Glow Skulls and Authority Zero, 2007 and March 17, 2008, with The Cherry Cokes and The Reverend Payton's Big Damn Band
Avenged Sevenfold – May 2, 2006, with Coheed and Cambria and Eighteen Visions
HIM – June 6, 2006, with Aiden
Dashboard Confessional – July 15, with Say Anything and Ben Lee and October 13, with Brand New, 2006
Taking Back Sunday – July 18, 2006, with Angels & Airwaves, Head Automatica and The Subways
Ozomatli – August 17, 2006, with Ziggy Marley and Bunny Wailer and August 15, 2007, with Slightly Stoopid and G. Love & Special Sauce
Gomez – September 13, 2006, with Matisyahu and The Street Drum Corps
Atreyu – October 7, 2006, with Chiodos
Nonpoint – October 21, 2006, with Earshot
Death Cab for Cutie – December 2, 2006, with OK Go, Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins and June 19, 2008, with Rouge Wave
Albert Cummings – February 25, 2007
Killswitch Engage – March 16, 2007, with Chimaira, DragonForce and He Is Legend
Bright Eyes – May 9, 2007
Hinder – July 31, 2007, with Papa Roach, Buckcherry and The Exies
The Paid Dues Music Festival – August 10, 2007
Rise Against – September 6, 2007, with Silverstein and The Comeback Kid
Muse – September 20, 2007, with Juliette and the Licks and Immigrant
KEDJ 103.9's How The Edge Stole Christmas Concert – December 6, 2007
Blake Shelton – March 9, 2008
The Gigantour – May 22, 2008
Erykah Badu – June 14, 2008, with The Roots
Paramore – August 2, 2008, with Jack's Mannequin and Phantom Planet
Slightly Stoopid – September 5, 2008, with Pepper, The Expendables and Sly and Robbie and September 16, 2011
k.d. lang – November 11, 2008, with Dustin O'Halloran
Chris Botti – November 21, 2008
The Blus Blast Music Festival – February 21, 2009
Fall Out Boy – April 3, 2009, with Cobra Starship, All Time Low, Metro Station and Hey Monday
Kings of Leon – May 19, 2009, with The Walkmen
The Pedal to the Metal Music Festival – September 2, 2009
Brand New – October 22, 2009, with The Manchester Orchestra and The Builders and the Butchers
Boys Like Girls – October 28, 2009, with Cobra Starship, The Maine, A Rocket to the Moon and VersaEmerge
Mastodon – November 17, 2009, with Converge and High on Fire
Candye Kane – February 27, 2010, with The Insomniacs
30 Seconds to Mars – April 10, 2010, with The Neon Trees and The Street Drum Corps
The Cool Music Festival – July 30, 2010
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers – February 19, 2011, with Trampled Under Foot
Authority Zero – April 1, 2011
Volbeat – April 11, 2011, with The Damned Things and Hourcast
The Black Keys – April 14, 2011, with Cage the Elephant and The Stone Foxes
Lupe Fiasco – April 21, 2011
Cake – June 10, 2011, with Calexico
Wiz Khalifa – June 28, 2011
Atmosphere – August 27, 2011, with Evidence and July 11, 2013, with Slightly Stoopid
The Rock Allegiance Tour – September 23, 2011
The Avett Brothers – October 21, 2011, October 5, 2013, with Nicholas David and February 7, 2015
The World Warr III Music Festival – November 1, 2011
Mac Miller – October 6, 2012, with Travis Porter
The Bounce Music Festival – October 26, 2012
Ed Sheeran – February 13, 2013
Sixto Rodriguez – April 18, 2013, with Giant Squid
That Damn Show Festival – April 20, 2013
The Piano Guys – June 12, 2013
Kendrick Lamar – June 26, 2013
Matisyahu – August 8, 2013, with Rebelution
A Day to Remember – September 28, 2014, with Bring Me the Horizon, Chiodos and Motionless in White
Skrillex – October 9, 2014, with DJ Mustard, Branchez and David Heartbreak
KDKB 93.3's Ugly Sweat Holiday Concert – December 15, 2014
Karol G - October 30, 2021