Market · Nashville metro · within 25 miles
The Nashville market books about 580 shows a year across 243 venues, with 403 already on the calendar. Country / Bluegrass leads the tagged shows at 53%, ahead of Rock at 19%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 36% of the year. August is the peak month. Ryman Auditorium is the most-booked venue, with 118 shows on record. The market covers Nashville and 29 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Franklin, Gallatin and Hendersonville.
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 Nashville from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
1 date on the calendar · major draw
1 date on the calendar · major draw
1 date on the calendar · major draw
1 date on the calendar · major draw
1 date on the calendar · major draw
1 date on the calendar · major draw
1 date on the calendar · major draw
1 date on the calendar · major draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Nashville on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Nashville that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 243 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Nashville, Tennessee, from bar stages to arenas, with about 580 shows in the last twelve months and 403 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 171 shows fall on a Saturday, against 80 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 36% of the year's shows.
Country / Bluegrass leads with 53% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Rock at 19%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, with 118 shows on record and 68 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Nashville data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Nashville and every other market in the country.