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/ August 7, 2026
The Knitting Factory opened in 1987 inside a run-down former Avon Products office on East Houston Street in Manhattan, founded by Michael Dorf and Louis Spitzer. What started as a scrappy art gallery and café quickly became one of New York’s most important stages for
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/ August 7, 2026
Danforth Music Hall is a live music theatre at 147 Danforth Avenue in Toronto’s Greektown neighborhood, just steps from Broadview subway station. The building opened on August 18, 1919 as Allen’s Danforth Theatre, a silent-movie “photoplay palace” designed by the architectural firm Hynes, Feldman, and
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/ August 6, 2026
The Warfield is a historic theater at 982 Market Street in San Francisco, opened on May 13, 1922, as the Loews Warfield. Built by theater chain owner Marcus Loew and designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh in a Spanish Baroque style, it began life as
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/ August 6, 2026
Brooklyn Steel is a live music venue in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, occupying a converted steel manufacturing plant at 319 Frost Street. Built out between July 2016 and March 2017, the space was developed by The Bowery Presents and designed to
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/ August 3, 2026
La Cigale is a concert hall and theatre at 120 boulevard de Rochechouart in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, just steps from Place Pigalle. Built in 1887 on the site of the former Boule Noire cabaret and rebuilt in 1894 under architect Henry Grandpierre, the
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/ August 2, 2026
Melkweg, Dutch for “Milky Way,” is a multidisciplinary cultural center and live music venue in Amsterdam, located on the Lijnbaansgracht near the Leidseplein nightlife district. The building began life as a 19th-century sugar refinery before becoming a milk factory that operated until 1969, and it
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/ August 2, 2026
The Ogden Theatre is a historic concert venue at 935 East Colfax Avenue in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, occupying a Mediterranean Revival building that first opened as a movie palace on September 6, 1917. Designed by architect Harry W. J. Edbrooke, the theater spent decades
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/ August 1, 2026
The Georgia Theatre is a historic live music venue in downtown Athens, Georgia, occupying a building whose roots trace back to 1889 when the city’s YMCA was constructed on the site. After decades as a basketball venue, music store, and movie house (the Elite Theater,
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/ July 29, 2026
Benaroya Hall opened on September 12, 1998, in downtown Seattle as the purpose-built home of the Seattle Symphony. Named for philanthropists Jack and Becky Benaroya, whose Benaroya Foundation contributed the largest gift in the symphony’s history toward the $120 million project, the hall occupies a
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/ July 29, 2026
The Fox Theatre in Detroit opened on September 21, 1928, as one of the grandest movie palaces ever built, seating over 5,000 people beneath an ornate blend of Burmese, Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Hindu design motifs. Designed by architect C. Howard Crane, it was the
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/ July 14, 2026
Teatro alla Scala, universally known as La Scala, is the opera house that put Milan on the world’s cultural map. Opened in 1778 in Piazza della Scala, it has hosted the premieres and greatest voices of Italian opera for nearly 250 years, and it remains
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/ June 28, 2026
The United Palace sits at 4140 Broadway in Washington Heights, Manhattan, occupying one of New York City’s most spectacular theatrical spaces. Designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb and opened on February 22, 1930, it began life as Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, one of five celebrated
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/ June 26, 2026
The Hammerstein Ballroom is a 35,000-square-foot concert hall occupying the upper floors of the Manhattan Center at 311 West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Originally built in 1906 by Oscar Hammerstein I as the Manhattan Opera House — a direct rival to
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/ June 17, 2026
Metro Chicago is a 1,100-capacity concert hall at 3730 N Clark Street in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood, two blocks north of Wrigley Field. Opened in 1982 inside a 1927 building originally constructed as a Swedish Community Center, it has earned a reputation as one of North
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/ June 16, 2026
O2 Academy Brixton stands at 211 Stockwell Road in the Lambeth district of South London, occupying a grand Art Deco building originally opened on 19 August 1929 as the Astoria Variety Cinema. After stints as a discotheque and a short-lived rock club called Fair Deal,
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/ June 15, 2026
The Fox Theatre — known affectionately as the Fabulous Fox — is a 4,665-seat performing arts venue at 660 Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. Originally conceived as a Shrine Temple headquarters and later leased to movie mogul William Fox, it opened on Christmas
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/ June 15, 2026
The Wiener Musikverein, opened on January 6, 1870, stands as one of the world’s most revered concert halls, nestled in Vienna’s Innere Stadt district at Musikvereinsplatz 1. Designed by Danish-born architect Theophil Hansen in the Neoclassical style, the building was constructed on land granted by
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/ June 15, 2026
The Elbphilharmonie, affectionately nicknamed ‘Elphi,’ is a striking concert hall complex rising 108 metres above the HafenCity waterfront in Hamburg, Germany. Designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog and de Meuron and officially inaugurated on 11 January 2017, the building sits atop the original 1963
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/ June 15, 2026
Symphony Hall, located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the most celebrated concert halls on earth. Designed by the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, it opened on October 15, 1900, at a construction cost of $771,000, built to serve
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/ June 15, 2026
Walt Disney Concert Hall opened on October 23, 2003, on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, instantly becoming one of the world’s most recognized concert halls. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the building’s sweeping exterior is wrapped in more than 6,000 stainless steel
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