Live Entertainment in Fairbanks

The Blue Loon is Fairbanks's premier entertainment venue — a bar, restaurant, and concert space that serves Alaska's second-largest city with regular live music, movies, comedy, and community events year-round. As an interior Alaska city with extreme winter darkness lasting months, indoor entertainment venues like Blue Loon serve an outsize community function, providing essential social gathering and live performance space for Fairbanks residents throughout the long dark season.

Carlson Center is the Fairbanks metro area's most important entertainment venue — a 5,000-capacity arena presenting concerts and cultural events for Interior Alaska's largest city. Fairbanks's extraordinary position as the gateway to the Alaskan Interior, the northern terminus of the Alaska Highway, and the world's premier aurora-borealis viewing location creates a concert market informed by Alaska's most extreme and spectacular natural environment.