Market · Cleveland metro · within 25 miles
The Cleveland market books about 629 shows a year across 315 venues, with 417 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 42%, ahead of Variety / Tribute at 13%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 41% of the year. August is the peak month. Beachland Ballroom & Tavern is the most-booked venue, with 169 shows on record. The market covers Cleveland and 61 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Lakewood, Cleveland Heights and Parma.
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 Cleveland from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
6 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
3 dates on the calendar · very large draw
3 dates on the calendar · very large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Cleveland on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Cleveland that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 315 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Cleveland, Ohio, from bar stages to arenas, with about 629 shows in the last twelve months and 417 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 212 shows fall on a Saturday, against 51 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 41% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 42% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Variety / Tribute at 13%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Beachland Ballroom & Tavern in Cleveland, with 169 shows on record and 76 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Cleveland data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Cleveland and every other market in the country.