
Brooklyn Mirage Purchased By Pacha Parent Company FIVE Holdings
The Brooklyn Mirage won’t be demolished, but instead rebranded as its purchased by FIVE Holdings, the Dubai-based holding company operating Pacha. Sources familiar with the situation told Pollstar that the venue plans to reopen for summer 2026, with several shows…

Steve Aoki Celebrates 30 Years Of Dim Mak
Phase one of Steve Aoki’s “Dim Man 30th Anniversary Tour” has been unveiled, with featured special guests Audien and Timmy Trumpet. The run kicks off on Feb. 7 at Vancouver’s Harbour ECC, with the first round of dates including stops…

Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry Celebrates Dolly Parton With Fourth Annual “Opry Goes Dolly” Birthday Show Jan. 17
The Grand Ole Opry will once again celebrate Opry member Dolly Parton with the fourth annual “Opry Goes Dolly” show on Jan. 17 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. The Dolly-themed birthday bash celebrates Parton’s 80th birthday by highlighting her iconic ‘80s…

MSG’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular Sees Highest Attendance in 25 years At 1.2 Million
Madison Square Garden Entertainment announced today that its long-running (100 years, in fact) Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes was the production’s highest-attended season in 25 years, with more than 1.2 million tickets sold across 216 performances at the…

Rolling Loud Heads To Orlando For Sole 2026 U.S. Stop
Rolling Loud — the “World’s Largest Hip-Hop Festival” — is headed to Orlando for its only U.S. event in 2026. Set for May 8-10 at Camping World Stadium, the festival will not be staged in Miami — where the festival…

Nominations Announced For 37th Annual Pollstar Awards
Nominations have been unveiled for the 37th annual Pollstar Awards, honoring the top tours, venues, live music executives, agencies, production companies and more in over 40 categories. A highlight of Pollstar Live!, the live industry’s leading conference, is the Pollstar…

Keeping It Lowlands: Annual Dutch Focus 2025
As is tradition, Pollstar reached out to some of the Netherlands’ most prolific concert and festival promoters, venue operators, and suppliers just in time for ESNS – the annual talent festival and music industry conference returning to Groningen this January,…

‘Where People Come Together & Creativity Comes To Life’: Q’s With Arnaud Hordijk, Head Of Entertainment & Sports, Rotterdam Ahoy
Rotterdam Ahoy has been the home for international and Dutch artists, sports professionals, politicians, celebrities, as well as the people of Rotterdam for more than 50 years. If there’s a trend to be made out in the European touring circuit,…

‘We must not forget that real stories don’t happen behind a screen’: Q’s With Tirsa Creusen, Festival Director, Pinkpop
Pinkpop is one of the Netherland’s most famous events and oldest annual pop and rock festivals in the world. It celebrated its 54th edition this year, June 20-22, with a lineup led by Justin Timberlake, Muse, Olivia Rodrigo, and more.…

‘We Looked At Everything & Came Up With A Better Solution’: Q’s With Dutch Barrier Services’ Stanley Jilesen & Erwin Sprengers
For this year’s Dutch Focus, Pollstar reached out to Stanley Jilesen and Erwin Sprengers, who, along with founder Cees Muurling, manage Dutch Barrier Services, the business that’s been taking the barrier world by storm since its foundation during the pandemic.…

‘Unmatched Value To Artists, Promoters, Sponsors & Fans’: Q’s With Ziggo Dome’s Birgitte de Winter & Jacobine Talsma
Ziggo Dome is the Netherland’s main concert arena. Located in the capital of Amsterdam, it usually gets a piece of every major arena tour out there. For this year’s Dutch Focus, Pollstar spoke with the building’s head of events, Jacobine…

‘It Feels Like 2026 Is Going To Be Another Strong Year’: Q’s With Kim Bloem, Head Promoter, MD, Mojo Concerts
For our annual Dutch Focus, Pollstar reached out to Kim Bloem, head promoter and managing director at the country’s biggest promoter Mojo Concerts/Live Nation. Bloem talked about the state of business at Mojo at year’s end, current trends, challenges, opportunities,…
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