Market · Boston metro · within 25 miles
The Boston market books about 523 shows a year across 487 venues, with 523 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 33%, ahead of Country / Bluegrass at 14%. Fridays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 49% of the year. August is the peak month. Deep Cuts is the most-booked venue, with 77 shows on record. The market covers Boston and 80 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Cambridge, Salem and Somerville.
Refreshed September 29, 2026 · from Cultivate's live dataset
The venues
Ranked by shows on record. Genre focus comes from what each venue has actually booked.
The shape of the market
What else competes for the night
Fairs, festivals, sports and civic events pull the same crowd. Cultivate weighs each one by expected draw and scores every night in Boston from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Boston on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Boston that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 487 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Boston, Massachusetts, from bar stages to arenas, with about 523 shows in the last twelve months and 523 upcoming.
Friday. In 2026, 249 shows fall on a Friday, against 52 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 49% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 33% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Country / Bluegrass at 14%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Deep Cuts in Medford, with 77 shows on record and 44 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Boston data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Boston and every other market in the country.