Market · Portland metro · within 25 miles
The Portland market books about 563 shows a year across 569 venues, with 407 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 41%, ahead of Country / Bluegrass at 18%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 41% of the year. September is the peak month. Mississippi Studios is the most-booked venue, with 119 shows on record. The market covers Portland and 35 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Vancouver, Beaverton and Newberg.
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 Portland from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
5 dates on the calendar · very large draw
4 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 Portland on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Portland that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 569 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Portland, Oregon, from bar stages to arenas, with about 563 shows in the last twelve months and 407 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 210 shows fall on a Saturday, against 59 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 41% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 41% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Country / Bluegrass at 18%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Mississippi Studios in Portland, with 119 shows on record and 58 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Portland data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Portland and every other market in the country.