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/ June 16, 2026
The Blue Note Jazz Club opened on September 30, 1981, when founder Danny Bensusan launched the Greenwich Village venue with a debut performance by the Nat Adderley Quintet. Bensusan’s vision was straightforward but bold: bring world-class jazz acts into a comfortable, intimate room with great
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/ June 16, 2026
The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at 178 Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City, opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Tucked into a wedge-shaped basement with a low ceiling lined with jazz posters and vintage instruments, the club holds
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/ June 16, 2026
Bowery Ballroom opened in 1998 at 6 Delancey Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, quickly cementing its reputation as one of New York City’s finest independent music venues. Founded by Michael Swier, Michael Winsch, and Brian Swier — the same team behind the Mercury Lounge
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/ June 16, 2026
First Avenue is a landmark live music venue located at 701 First Avenue North in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Art Deco building was originally constructed in 1937 as the Minneapolis depot of the Greyhound Lines bus system. In 1970, Allan Fingerhut purchased the property and
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/ June 16, 2026
CBGB opened on December 10, 1973, at 315 Bowery in Manhattan’s East Village, founded by Hilly Kristal with the unlikely intention of showcasing country, bluegrass, and blues acts. The name stood for ‘Country, Bluegrass, Blues, and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers,’ yet the cramped, 350-capacity
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/ June 16, 2026
Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater — widely known as ACL Live — opened on February 10, 2011, as a purpose-built concert hall and television production studio at 310 W. 2nd Street in the Block 21 mixed-use development of Downtown Austin’s Second Street
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/ June 16, 2026
The Roundhouse is a Grade II*-listed performing arts venue on Chalk Farm Road in Camden, London, housed inside a striking circular Victorian railway engine shed built in 1846–1847 for the London and North Western Railway. After decades of dormancy the building was repurposed as a
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/ June 15, 2026
The Hollywood Palladium is a landmark music and entertainment venue situated at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood, Los Angeles. Designed by architect Gordon Kaufmann in the Streamline Moderne Art Deco style, it opened on October 31, 1940, at a construction cost of
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/ June 15, 2026
PPG Paints Arena is Pittsburgh’s premier indoor arena, located at 1001 Fifth Avenue in the heart of downtown. The 720,000-square-foot venue holds up to 19,758 fans for center-stage concerts and 18,187 for Pittsburgh Penguins NHL hockey — making it the largest and most versatile live
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/ June 15, 2026
OVO Arena Wembley is one of the UK’s most celebrated indoor venues, sitting beside Wembley Stadium in northwest London. With a capacity of 12,500, it is Greater London’s second-largest indoor arena and one of the busiest in Europe, hosting over 120 shows a year and
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/ June 15, 2026
The Ziggo Dome is Amsterdam’s largest indoor concert arena — and the biggest in the Netherlands — with a maximum capacity of 17,000 fans. Opened on June 24, 2012, in the Bijlmermeer district of southeastern Amsterdam, it was purpose-built for amplified live music, engineered from
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/ June 14, 2026
Few venues on earth carry a tradition as long or as loud as the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. Since March 16, 1974, this 4,440-seat auditorium seven miles northeast of downtown has been the permanent home of the Grand Ole Opry — the
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/ June 14, 2026
At 2,894 seats, the Beacon Theatre is one of the most precisely scaled music venues in America — large enough to attract global headliners, intimate enough that no seat feels truly removed from the stage. Situated at 2124 Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, this
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/ June 14, 2026
The Apollo Theater at 253 West 125th Street in Harlem has done more to shape American music than almost any other building on earth. Since 1934, its stage has been the ultimate testing ground — a place where raw talent either catches fire or gets
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/ June 14, 2026
There are a few rooms in American music where history didn’t just happen — it was made. The Fillmore Auditorium at 1805 Geary Boulevard in San Francisco is one of them. From December 1965 to July 1968, a two-and-a-half-year window that feels almost impossible in
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/ June 14, 2026
Perched on a basalt ridge above the Columbia River in central Washington, the Gorge Amphitheatre delivers a concert experience that most venues can only dream of: a natural grass-and-terrace bowl where the stage backdrop is a winding river, ancient canyon walls, and sunsets that draw
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/ June 14, 2026
Standing at 116 Fifth Avenue North in downtown Nashville, Ryman Auditorium doesn’t look like the center of the American musical universe — but it is. Built in 1892 as a revival tabernacle, this red-brick building with curved wooden pews and Gothic-arched windows has hosted the
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/ June 14, 2026
The Hollywood Bowl is the largest natural amphitheater in the United States — a 59-acre outdoor venue carved into the Hollywood Hills that has been drawing crowds since 1922. With nearly 18,000 seats, a concentric-arch band shell that ranks among the most recognized structures in
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/ June 14, 2026
Madison Square Garden — universally nicknamed ‘The World’s Most Famous Arena’ — rises above Penn Station in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, a circular tower of steel and glass that has anchored American sports, music, and culture since 1968. In the decades since its doors
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/ June 14, 2026
Cradled between two 300-foot sandstone monoliths in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Red Rocks Amphitheatre delivers an experience unlike any other concert venue on Earth. The stage sits at 6,450 feet above sea level outside Morrison, Colorado — roughly ten miles southwest of Denver
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