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/ October 19, 2026
The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum opened on November 3, 1965, on the grounds of the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix. Built for about $7 million in private funding, the arena became known to generations of locals simply as “the Coliseum,” and to Phoenix Suns broadcaster…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Denver Coliseum has anchored Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood since it opened on November 8, 1951, rising from a $3 million construction project that began in 1949. Built at 4600 Humboldt Street as part of the National Western Complex, the arena was designed to host livestock…
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/ October 19, 2026
Milwaukee Arena opened downtown on April 9, 1950, built at a cost of about $7.6 million from a design by the local firm Eschweiler & Eschweiler. For decades it served as the city’s primary indoor venue, drawing crowds of up to 12,700 for sports, concerts…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Cow Palace is an indoor arena and events center in Daly City, California, sitting right on the San Francisco border. Opened on April 20, 1941, as the California State Livestock Pavilion, it earned its nickname from the Grand National Rodeo, Horse & Stock Show…
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/ October 19, 2026
Baltimore Arena opened its doors on October 23, 1962, as the Baltimore Civic Center, a downtown multipurpose venue designed by A.G. Odell Jr. and Associates at a construction cost of about $14 million. Over six decades it carried several names, including Baltimore Arena, 1st Mariner…
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/ October 19, 2026
Oakland Arena opened on November 9, 1966, as the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena, part of the same sports complex that houses the Coliseum stadium. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, it became one of the Bay Area’s primary venues for sports and live entertainment for…
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/ October 11, 2026
Echostage opened in 2012 in the Langdon neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C., transforming a former warehouse into a hybrid nightclub and concert hall. Built on the site once occupied by earlier venues DC Tunnel and DC Star, the club was launched by GLOW, the city’s…
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/ October 10, 2026
Stage AE sits on Pittsburgh’s North Shore, wedged between Acrisure Stadium and PNC Park, as one of the city’s busiest live entertainment complexes. The venue opened on December 3, 2010, following groundbreaking that April, and launched with two sold-out shows from Pittsburgh native Girl Talk.
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/ October 3, 2026
ACL Live at the Moody Theater opened on February 10, 2011, in downtown Austin, Texas, as the full-time production home of the long-running PBS series Austin City Limits. Built as part of the mixed-use Block 21 development alongside the W Austin hotel, the $40 million…
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/ September 19, 2026
Rotterdam Ahoy is a multi-hall entertainment and convention complex in Rotterdam, Netherlands, anchored by the Ahoy Arena, which opened on January 15, 1971. Originally built to host trade fairs, the venue grew into one of continental Europe’s busiest arenas, combining an exhibition hall, congress center…
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/ September 13, 2026
YouTube Theater is a modern concert and event venue located within the Hollywood Park entertainment complex in Inglewood, California, just steps from SoFi Stadium. The 227,000-square-foot facility opened its doors on August 9, 2021, giving Los Angeles a flexible mid-sized venue built to fill the…
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/ September 8, 2026
Ascend Amphitheater sits on the west bank of the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville, part of Metro Riverfront Park at 301 1st Avenue South. The city-owned venue opened on July 30, 2015, on the site of a former thermal transfer plant that had been phased…
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/ August 31, 2026
Forest Hills Stadium is an outdoor concert venue on the grounds of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. Built in 1923, the horseshoe-shaped stadium was originally constructed to host tennis, serving as the home of the U.S. National Championships…
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/ August 28, 2026
Osaka-jo Hall (大阪城ホール), often written in English as Osaka Castle Hall or Osaka-jō Hall, is a 16,000-capacity indoor arena built into Osaka Castle Park in Chuo-ku, Osaka. Since opening in 1983, it has hosted everything from New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s biggest cards to major international concert…
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/ August 27, 2026
Ask most Sydneysiders how many people the Enmore Theatre holds and you’ll get two different answers — both correct. The Newtown landmark can seat up to 1,700 people for a theatre-style show, or pack in as many as 2,500 for a standing gig, making it…
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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 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 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 8, 2026
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts is an outdoor amphitheater in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, that has served as the summer home of the Philadelphia Orchestra since it opened in 1976. It picked up where the nearby Robin Hood Dell amphitheater left off, continuing…
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