The live-music layer for destinations
Make your destination’s live music discoverable.
GigsHQ provides an approved, structured feed of ticketed and non-ticketed live-music events for your website, app, map or visitor assistant — without manual event entry.
You set the territory, priority venues and exclusions. We deliver the approved feed.
Demo feed
Built for your destination
Sample destination feed · Quebec City imagery for demonstration.
Every stage. Ticketed + non-ticketed
yourdestination.com/things-to-do/live-music
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Who is this for
One complete live-music feed.
Built for your organization.
GigsHQ helps organizations publish a structured feed of ticketed and non-ticketed live-music events across their website, app, calendar, map or visitor assistant.
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Destination organizations
Enhance city visitor guides.
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Tourism and hospitality
Connect guests with local entertainment.
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Media and publishers
Power live-music listings for your readers.
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Municipalities and cultural organizations
Bring your local live-music data together.
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Apps and digital platforms
Build on a structured live-music feed.
For every organization making more live music discoverable.Information is structured from permitted venue and artist sources.
Why it matters
Live music is already happening.
Your audience just can’t see all of it.
Turn fragmented event information into a more useful experience for visitors, guests, readers and users.
More complete discovery
Bring festivals, concerts, bars, restaurants, breweries and small stages into one discoverable live-music layer.
Less editorial work
Reduce the time spent searching, entering, formatting and maintaining live-music listings by hand.
More useful visitor experiences
Help people find what’s on tonight, this weekend or near the places they already plan to visit.
One feed, many channels
Deliver the same approved destination feed to your website, app, map, calendar or visitor assistant.
Make better use of the live music already happening around you.
Coverage, permitted sources and update expectations are agreed for each organization.
The gap
There’s more live music than most calendars show.
Beyond festivals: the bars, breweries and small stages visitors stay for.
More than
½
of consumers check live music online before choosing where to go.
Nearly
80%
would stay longer if good music were playing.
Nearly
60%
would buy more food or drinks to keep enjoying the music.
BMI / NRG · 2023 study ↗BMI / National Research Group (NRG), 2023 U.S. online study; n=1,000 adults age 21+ who visit eating-and-drinking establishments at least three times per month. Survey responses, not revenue forecasts.
The mechanism
One API. No ongoing event entry for your team.
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You set the territory, priority venues and exclusions
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GigsHQ works within agreed source, attribution and coverage rules for each destination.
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Your approved destination feed reaches visitors via API or widget
Want a ready-made visitor experience? Preview the GigsHQ widget
What you can build
Dozens of shows. One living surface.
One approved destination feed. A map, a list or a visitor assistant, built your way.
Coming upLive music18 sample shows
Discovery AssistantBuilt on the GigsHQ API
Where can I hear live jazz tonight?
Three Quebec City shows match:
Select a result to locate it on the map.
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Fictional event schedule · Quebec City area
Conversational discovery
Visitors ask the way they’d ask a concierge.
It answers with real, clickable shows inside your destination. Never a paragraph of guesswork.
Try one — the live result set responds.
Three jazz sets downtown tonight, all within walking distance:
8:30 PMDelta Mercer Quartet — Grainhouse Brewing, no cover
9:15 PMAna Reyes Trio — Chapel Street Hall, tickets
10:00 PMLate Set Collective — Marlowe’s, no cover
Nine shows with no cover charge between Friday and Sunday. The three closest:
FRI 9:00 PMHollis & Vane — The Ember Room, no cover
SAT 4:00 PMBroadleaf — Mill Street Tap, patio, no cover
SUN 2:00 PMCora Lindqvist — Harbour Coffee House, no cover
Two late sets by the water, both starting after 10 pm:
10:30 PMThe Fifth Line — Marlowe’s, waterfront
11:00 PMSable & Sons — The Foundry, waterfront
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Interactive preview · sample listings
What you get
Your destination, drawn once. Covered from then on.
Territory
Boundary set once
Your mandate
Everything inside. Continuously.
Draw your territory once
Municipal, regional, whatever your mandate covers. Everything inside it gets monitored.
Coverage
~80% non-ticketed~20% ticketed
Ticketed and non-ticketed
Stadium show, brewery patio. Same pipeline, same shape.
Freshness
Always current
Visitors see tonight, not last week’s calendar.
Transparency
See what we see
Every venue tracked, every show found, and where it came from.
Two ways in
TODAY
Drop in the widget
One embed line. Your colours, your fonts. Live in days.
WHEN YOU’RE READY
Pull the API
The same feed as JSON, on your terms.
Commercial
Licensed access
Annual licence, dedicated key, usage reporting.
Integration · API or widget
Your feed. Your visitor experience.
- The serviceGigsHQ data service
- Your dataApproved destination feed
- Delivery optionsAPI or widget
- Visitor experiencesWebsite, app, map, calendar or visitor assistant
GET https://dmo-api.gigshq.com/eventsThe feed is configured for your destination. API access requires a partner key supplied by GigsHQ.
For your developersStandard JSON for your website, app, map, calendar or visitor assistant.+
API · custom integration
Your events. Standard JSON.
Illustrative request and response with fictional event data. Confirm the feed configuration and schema during onboarding.
GET /events HTTP/1.1
Host: dmo-api.gigshq.com
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PARTNER_KEY{
"schema_version": "public-event-feed.v1",
"generated_at": "2026-09-18T11:00:00Z",
"client": {"name": "Your destination"},
"view": "events",
"count": 1,
"events": [{
"schema_version": "public-event-card.v1",
"event_id": "evt-demo-001",
"title": "Midnight Geometry",
"date": "2026-09-18",
"time": "21:00",
"venue": {
"id": "venue-demo-01",
"name": "Grand Théâtre de Quebec",
"city": "Quebec City"
},
"artists": [{"id": "artist-demo-01", "name": "Midnight Geometry"}],
"genres": ["jazz"],
"media": {"primary": "", "gallery": [], "video": {}},
"links": [{"type": "venue", "label": "Venue website", "url": "https://example.com/venue"}]
}]
}Widget · fast launchThe same approved destination feed, ready to embed on your website.+
<script src="https://dmo-api.gigshq.com/embed.js" data-key="dmo_a1b2c3" async></script>Explore live music
The show you were looking for is happening nearby.
The ticketed headliner and the acoustic set two streets over, side by side. That is the same data your visitors get from you.
Now9:00
Hollis & Vane
Tue10:30
The Fifth Line
Original GigsHQ visual · local discovery
Before you ask
Questions we get.
Clear answers for teams evaluating a governed live-music data integration.
API-first. Destination-governed.
Do we control which venues appear?
Yes. You define the territory, priority venues, exclusions and review rules. GigsHQ sources and structures eligible live-music information within those rules, and your organization keeps the final say on which venues appear in your visitor-facing experience.
Do we have to replace our current calendar?
No. The GigsHQ API can add a specialized live-music layer to your existing website, app or events calendar. Your current tools stay in place; the approved feed covers live music alongside them.
Does our team have to approve every event?
No. The goal is to avoid manual event entry and ongoing review of every listing. Your team sets the venue and review rules, then steps in only to handle exceptions.
Can we include ticketed and non-ticketed live music?
Yes. The approved feed can include ticketed concerts and festivals, as well as eligible non-ticketed shows at bars, pubs, breweries and restaurants, within the venues and rules you approve.
How current is the data?
Update expectations are agreed during onboarding according to your territory, approved venues and permitted sources.
How does the API fit into our digital experience?
The API connects to the channels your visitors already use. Your team can integrate the approved feed into your website, mobile app, interactive map, events calendar or conversational assistant, in your own design.
Coverage rules, permitted sources and update expectations are agreed during onboarding and set out in your agreement.