Market · New Orleans metro · within 25 miles
The New Orleans market books about 906 shows a year across 1,092 venues, with 377 already on the calendar. Jazz / Blues leads the tagged shows at 28%, ahead of Rock at 23%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 41% of the year. August is the peak month. Fritzel's Jazz Club is the most-booked venue, with 73 shows on record. The market covers New Orleans and 16 nearby cities within 25 miles, including New Orleans (Faubourg Marigny), Metairie and New Orleans (Bywater).
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 New Orleans 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
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts New Orleans on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in New Orleans that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
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Cultivate tracks 1,092 venues that book live music within 25 miles of New Orleans, Louisiana, from bar stages to arenas, with about 906 shows in the last twelve months and 377 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 281 shows fall on a Saturday, against 104 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 41% of the year's shows.
Jazz / Blues leads with 28% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Rock at 23%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Fritzel's Jazz Club in New Orleans, with 73 shows on record and 0 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the New Orleans data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for New Orleans and every other market in the country.