Find your next stage

STEP 1 · YOUR ARTIST

Artist or band nameLou Delmar

NextStage is a discovery tool for independent musicians. You add your artist or band, choose the cities you want to play in, and NextStage brings together gigs, music venues, festivals, support slots, bookers and similar artists that are relevant to your music. Instead of searching across dozens of websites and social accounts, you start from one organized list.

NextStage is built for independent artists and bands, especially emerging and semi-professional musicians who organize their own shows. It is also useful for the people around them, such as a bandmate who handles booking or a manager working with a small roster.

Yes. NextStage takes the scale of your project into account, so an emerging band is pointed toward venues, gigs and festival stages that make sense for where it is now, rather than rooms it cannot realistically fill yet. Smaller venues, local gigs and support slots are often the most useful starting points, and they are a big part of what you can discover.

You can discover gigs and booking opportunities, music venues, festivals and their emerging artist programs, support slots alongside touring artists, bookers and other relevant music industry contacts, and similar or local artists in your scene. Labels and other professionals appear where they are relevant, but live opportunities come first.

NextStage looks at what describes your project: your genres, the music profiles you add, the scale of your audience and the cities you choose. It uses that context to surface opportunities and contacts that fit, and shows the reasons each one appeared, such as a similar artist who played the venue or a festival stage that programs your genre.

No. NextStage helps you discover opportunities and the contacts behind them, but it does not book gigs on your behalf. You stay in charge of outreach, applications, negotiation and booking. The goal is to make that work faster and better targeted, not to replace the relationship between you and a venue or booker.

Yes. Finding music venues that fit your sound and audience is one of the core uses of NextStage. For each venue you can see where it is, its approximate capacity when known, the kind of artists it programs and whether a booking contact is available, so you can prioritize the rooms worth contacting.

Yes. NextStage shows artists close to your sound and artists from your local scene. Looking at where they play, who they share bills with and which festivals program them is often one of the best ways to find new venues, support slots and people to contact.

Select Find my opportunities, add your artist or band and the music profiles that describe your project, then choose the cities you want to explore. NextStage then brings relevant gigs, venues, festivals and contacts together for you to review.