Market · Cincinnati metro · within 25 miles
The Cincinnati market books about 577 shows a year across 440 venues, with 392 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 31%, ahead of Country / Bluegrass at 20%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 45% of the year. September is the peak month. The Southgate House Revival is the most-booked venue, with 193 shows on record. The market covers Cincinnati and 72 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Hamilton, Covington and Loveland.
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 Cincinnati from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
7 dates on the calendar · very large draw
4 dates on the calendar · very large draw
4 dates on the calendar · very large draw
4 dates on the calendar · very large draw
3 dates on the calendar · very large draw
3 dates on the calendar · very large draw
3 dates on the calendar · very large draw
3 dates on the calendar · very large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Cincinnati on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Cincinnati that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 440 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Cincinnati, Ohio, from bar stages to arenas, with about 577 shows in the last twelve months and 392 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 226 shows fall on a Saturday, against 75 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 45% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 31% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Country / Bluegrass at 20%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
The Southgate House Revival in Newport, with 193 shows on record and 83 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Cincinnati data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Cincinnati and every other market in the country.