Live Music Venues in Indiana

Every venue in this directory has been verified as currently open and hosting live music — no closed doors, no stale listings. Profiles are organized by area. Know a venue we’re missing? Tell us. Run one of these venues? Claim your free profile and keep it current.

Broad Ripple & North Side

• The Vogue — national touring acts in a converted 1938 movie theater
• The Jazz Kitchen — Indy’s flagship jazz room for 30+ years
• The Melody Inn — the beloved punk dive; Punk Rock Night every Saturday
• The Mousetrap — jam bands and funk, multiple nights weekly
• Black Circle Brewing Co. — craft brewery and home of the heavy scene
• Clowes Memorial Hall — Butler University’s 2,148-seat main hall, open since 1963
• Schrott Center for the Arts — 475-seat hall on the Butler campus
• Shelton Auditorium — roughly 400 seats on Butler’s South Campus — a separate site from the main campus
• Blind Owl Brewery — brewpub on East 62nd; live music every Friday and Saturday at 6:30, all ages

Fountain Square

• HI-FI — tomorrow’s headliners in a 500-cap room (plus the outdoor Annex in summer)
• White Rabbit Cabaret — indie bands, burlesque, and variety behind red curtains
• Square Cat Vinyl — record shop, bar, and stage with a monthly originals-only open mic
• HI-FI Annex — the HI-FI’s outdoor seasonal stage
• Fountain Square Brew Co. — neighborhood brewery with live music, 21+

Downtown & Mass Ave

• The Slippery Noodle Inn — Indiana’s oldest bar; blues most nights since 1850
• Chatterbox Jazz Club — jazz seven nights a week in a legendary Mass Ave dive
• The Rathskeller — German food and summer biergarten bands at the Athenaeum
• Old National Centre — three historic rooms of major touring acts
• The Cabaret — world-class songbook and jazz in an intimate supper club
• Tin Roof — no-cover party bands by Gainbridge Fieldhouse
• Gainbridge Fieldhouse — the downtown arena for the biggest tours
• Hilbert Circle Theatre — the ISO’s Monument Circle home
• Everwise Amphitheater — outdoor season at White River State Park

East Side

• State Street Pub — punk and DIY at the east side’s beloved dive

Near West Side & Riverside

• Guggman Haus Brewing Co. — Riverside brewery on the old Boyle Racing grounds; free beer-garden music Fridays, Sunday bluegrass jam

Carmel, Fishers & Noblesville

• The Palladium — world-class concert hall in Carmel’s arts district
• Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael — supper-club cabaret and jazz in Carmel
• Nickel Plate District Amphitheater — Fishers’ backyard stage; free Tuesday concerts all summer
• Ruoff Music Center — Indiana’s 24,000-seat summer amphitheater in Noblesville
• Syd’s Bar & Grill — local bands on the Noblesville square since 1945
• Britton Tavern — weekend cover bands in Fishers
• Carmel Gazebo Concerts — free summer series downtown Carmel
• Federal Hill Commons — Noblesville’s riverside stage
• Fishers Event Center — the 7,500-seat arena, opened 2024
• Conner Prairie Amphitheatre — symphony and touring nights on the lawn

Greenwood

• Mad Hatter Shows and Event Center — roughly 150 seats in downtown Greenwood; comedy-led, but books tribute acts and touring songwriters

Hendricks County

• The Kickstand Bar & Grill — Danville courthouse square; acoustic duos Fridays, full bands Saturdays
• Hendricks Live! — 600-seat purpose-built hall in downtown Plainfield; national touring acts
• The Prewitt Restaurant + Lounge — converted movie theatre in Plainfield; music Thursdays on the rooftop and Fridays in the dining room

Brown County

• Brown County Music Center — 2,017 seats in Nashville; national touring acts year round
• Brown County Inn (Corn Crib Lounge) — music four nights a week, including a Wednesday open mic

Southeast Indiana

• Red Bicycle Hall — 150-seat listening room in Madison booking national Americana and roots
• Floyd County Brewing Company — three music stages in New Albany, including the outdoor Enchanted Forest beer garden
• Wrong Side 812 — Jeffersonville dive with a late-night kitchen and music most nights

Northwest Indiana

• Memorial Opera House — an 1893 Civil War memorial hall in Valparaiso, still working as a theater
• Hobart Art Theatre — 500-capacity independent room in Hobart, open since 1940

Fort Wayne

• The Clyde Theatre — national tours in a restored 1951 theater
• Embassy Theatre — the 1928 movie palace downtown
• The Club Room at The Clyde — local blues, jazz & soul six nights a week
• Baker Street Centre — the intimate listening room (fka C2G Music Hall)
• Sweetwater Performance Pavilion — summer shed on the Sweetwater campus
• Foellinger Theatre — the summer amphitheater in Franke Park
• Memorial Coliseum — Fort Wayne’s arena for the biggest tours
• The Brass Rail — the original-music dive that anchors the underground
• The Ruin — all-ages indie and punk on West Main
• Hop River Brewing — craft beer with local acts, various nights
• Club Soda — live jazz over martinis downtown
• Deer Park Irish Pub — acoustic nights by Purdue Fort Wayne
• Four D’s Bar & Grill — northwest-side neighbourhood bar; bands on the raised half of the room, karaoke, kitchen open late

Bloomington

• The Bluebird — the legendary rock club, open since 1974
• Buskirk-Chumley Theater — the restored 1922 theater on Kirkwood
• The Bishop — Bloomington’s indie clubhouse
• Blockhouse Bar — basement stage with music five nights a week
• The Orbit Room — the all-ages room downtown
• The Back Door — queer bar mixing drag, cabaret & live bands
• IU Auditorium — marquee national tours on campus
• Switchyard Park Pavilion — the city’s outdoor concert home

More venues added as we verify them — city by city across Indiana.

Lafayette & West Lafayette

• The Spot Tavern — the DIY dive for touring punk & indie
• Nine Irish Brothers — Wednesday traditional Irish session
• People’s Brewing Company — ticketed Tuesday listening-room series

South Bend

• Morris Performing Arts Center — the 2,564-seat 1922 palace
• Stockroom East — the busiest club stage in town
• Fiddler’s Hearth — Celtic pub with a Monday open session
• Merrimans’ Playhouse — the dedicated jazz listening room

Muncie

• Emens Auditorium — Ball State’s 3,581-seat hall
• Be Here Now — the volunteer-run DIY institution

Evansville

• Ford Center — the ~10,000-seat downtown arena
• Victory Theatre — the restored 1921 vaudeville palace
• Bokeh Lounge — arts-district eclectic + Sunday jazz
• Mojo’s BoneYard — the region’s touring-blues room

Terre Haute

• The Mill — the 6,000-cap outdoor amphitheater
• Boot City Opry — old-school country opry house
• Terre Haute Brewing Company — 1837 heritage brewery with live bands

Browse by Genre

Not sure where to start? These guides group Indiana’s venues by what they actually book.

• Jazz in Indiana — dedicated clubs, rooms that book it regularly, and the weekly jams.
• Blues in Indiana — the Slippery Noodle, Mojo’s BoneYard, and the Wednesday jam host rotation.
• Country, Americana & Roots — the Boot City Opry and the brewery circuit where roots music actually lives.
• Punk & Metal in Indiana — DIY rooms, all-ages spaces, and Punk Rock Night.

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