Discover legendary music venues and live-music halls. ThrillZing covers the acoustics, history, standout shows, and fan tips for the amphitheaters, arenas, and intimate rooms where the best concerts come alive.
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/ August 15, 2026
The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is Melbourne’s best-loved outdoor stage: a sweeping, cable-hung amphitheatre tucked into the Kings Domain parklands that has hosted everything from The Seekers’ legendary 1967 homecoming to decades of Carols by Candlelight. This guide covers the practical side too — how…
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/ August 15, 2026
Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy, built directly beside the Royal Palace on what is now Piazza del Plebiscito. It opened on November 4, 1737, commissioned by the Bourbon king Charles VII to give Naples a grander stage than the…
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/ August 15, 2026
Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater is a 20,000-capacity outdoor concert venue in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that has served as one of Hampton Roads’ premier live music destinations since it opened in 1996. Operated by Live Nation Entertainment, the venue combines a covered pavilion with sweeping…
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/ August 14, 2026
Huntington Bank Pavilion is an outdoor amphitheater on Northerly Island in Chicago, Illinois, built on the former site of Meigs Field airport. It opened on June 24, 2005 as Charter One Pavilion, with Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago headlining the inaugural concert, and has…
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/ August 14, 2026
MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre is Tampa’s main outdoor concert venue for touring acts. It sits on the Florida State Fairgrounds just off Interstate 4, at 4802 US Highway 301 North. Since opening in July 2004, it has hosted rock, country, pop, hip-hop and Christian tours.
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/ August 14, 2026
Toyota Amphitheatre is an 18,500-seat outdoor amphitheater in unincorporated Yuba County, California, sitting between Wheatland and Plumas Lake about 35 miles north of Sacramento. It’s one of Northern California’s largest outdoor concert venues, pairing a covered fixed-seat bowl with a wide open lawn for touring…
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/ August 13, 2026
Xfinity Center is the outdoor amphitheater in Mansfield, Massachusetts that’s hosted New England’s biggest summer tours since 1986 — and if you’re heading to a show there, you’ve probably got questions about where exactly it is, how parking works, bag rules, seating, and the best…
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/ August 13, 2026
Frost Amphitheater is a grassy, tree-lined outdoor concert bowl on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. Opened in 1937, it was built as a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Howard Frost in memory of their son, John Laurence Frost, who died of polio…
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/ August 13, 2026
PNC Music Pavilion was a 19,500-capacity outdoor amphitheater in the University City area of Charlotte, North Carolina, that served as one of the Carolinas’ premier stops on the summer touring circuit. Opened on July 4, 1991, the Live Nation-operated venue carried the PNC name from…
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/ August 12, 2026
If you’re staring at a Walmart AMP seat map trying to figure out what “Section 4” or “lawn” actually means before you buy, you’re not alone – this venue splits seating into more tiers than most amphitheaters, and picking wrong can mean the difference between…
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/ August 12, 2026
Jiffy Lube Live is the largest music venue in the Washington, D.C. metro area, sitting on Cellar Door Drive in Bristow, Virginia, about 35 miles west of the capital. Most first-time visitors show up with the same three questions: what was this place called before…
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/ August 11, 2026
Dos Equis Pavilion is the current name for one of Dallas’s biggest outdoor amphitheaters, tucked inside the Fair Park complex and drawing tens of thousands of fans across a single concert season. Whether you’re trying to figure out how many people fit in the place…
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/ August 11, 2026
If you’re trying to figure out how many people Ameris Bank Amphitheatre holds, or you saw “Verizon Amphitheatre” on an old ticket and wondered if it’s even the same place, you’re not alone — both questions come up constantly for this Alpharetta venue. The short…
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/ August 11, 2026
White River Amphitheatre is an outdoor concert venue located on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation, about 8 miles east of Auburn, Washington, and roughly 36 miles southeast of Seattle. Opened on June 14, 2003 with a performance by Heart, the venue was built at a cost…
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/ August 10, 2026
Tucked into the foothills of the Wasatch Range at the mouth of Red Butte Canyon, the Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre is the outdoor concert venue of Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, a 100-acre botanical garden operated by the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
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/ August 10, 2026
Meadow Brook Amphitheatre is an outdoor concert venue on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, about 25 miles north of Detroit. Opened in 1964 on land once part of the Meadow Brook estate of automotive pioneer John Dodge, the venue combines a…
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/ August 10, 2026
Britt Pavilion is an open-air amphitheater tucked into a pine- and madrone-covered hillside in Jacksonville, Oregon, on the former estate of 19th-century photographer Peter Britt. The site’s natural bowl shape and clear acoustics made it a magnet for music long before any formal stage existed…
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/ August 9, 2026
Isleta Amphitheater is the name most Albuquerque concertgoers still use for the city’s largest outdoor concert venue, even though the sign out front now reads something else. It sits in the Mesa del Sol development on the south side of town and has hosted major…
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/ August 9, 2026
If you’re trying to figure out how many people the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre holds, or you’ve heard fans call it by five other names and want to know why, this guide covers both in full. The venue on the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm…
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/ August 9, 2026
Alpine Valley Music Theatre is the big outdoor amphitheater on County Road D in East Troy, Wisconsin. It has drawn Midwest concertgoers since 1977. Ask how many people it holds and the answer depends on the source: 7,500 covered pavilion seats, plus a general-admission lawn…
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