Nightlife Venues

Kansas City, Missouri

Plush is Kansas City's most beloved independent live music venue — a Westport neighborhood club presenting indie, alternative, and electronic acts in an intimate 400-person environment. Kansas City's extraordinary jazz heritage (Charlie Parker, Count Basie, and the Kansas City jazz style emerged here) creates a music culture that values live performance with unusual seriousness and depth.

4141 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City, MO 64111

Kansas City, Missouri

Power & Light District is Kansas City's most ambitious entertainment development — a multiple-block downtown complex of bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues that draws KC Chiefs and Royals game-day crowds and creates a year-round entertainment destination. The district's outdoor venues, live music stages, and density of bars create the most consistently active entertainment environment in downtown Kansas City.

13th & Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64105

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District supports the most exciting new music venues in the city — a neighborhood of galleries, restaurants, and live music bars that has become the center of contemporary KC creative culture. The Crossroads' extraordinary First Friday gallery walks and its concentration of independent creative businesses make it the most culturally vibrant entertainment district in Missouri's western anchor city.

Crossroads, Kansas City, MO 64108

Kansas City, Missouri

Westport is Kansas City's most historically significant entertainment district — a 19th-century outfitting center for wagon trains headed west on the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails, now transformed into one of KC's most vibrant entertainment neighborhoods. Westport's extraordinary frontier heritage and its contemporary concentration of outstanding bars and restaurants create a nightclub district of genuine Missouri entertainment historical significance.

Westport Rd, Kansas City, MO 64111

Kansas City, Missouri

Midland Theatre is Kansas City's most magnificent historic entertainment venue — a 1927 movie palace that has been restored to host major concerts and events in an ornate Beaux Arts interior. Its history as one of America's finest surviving movie palaces, combined with consistent booking of major touring acts across rock, pop, and hip-hop, makes it Kansas City's most beloved entertainment venue.

1228 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64105

St. Louis, Missouri

Blueberry Hill is one of America's most beloved music venues and restaurants — a St. Louis Loop institution where Chuck Berry (who grew up in St. Louis) played monthly concerts from 1996 until his death in 2017. Blueberry Hill's extraordinary connection to the birthplace of rock and roll (Chuck Berry invented the guitar riff and stage performance style of rock music in St. Louis) creates a music venue of genuine American rock history significance.

6504 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63130

St. Louis, Missouri

The Delmar Loop in St. Louis is one of America's most celebrated entertainment streets — a University City corridor that Joe Edwards has been developing since the 1970s with the Blueberry Hill restaurant, the Pageant theater, and dozens of independent bars and restaurants. The Loop's extraordinary concentration of independent businesses, its Walk of Fame celebrating St. Louis legends from Chuck Berry to Miles Davis, and its multicultural energy make it Missouri's most distinctive entertainment district.

The Loop, St. Louis, MO 63130

St. Louis, Missouri

The Firebird is St. Louis's most respected live music venue — a Midtown Arts District club presenting indie rock, alternative, and emerging artists in an intimate setting that serves as the essential small venue for St. Louis's passionate music community. Its consistent booking of artists on the verge of national breakthrough has made it the most talent-forward venue in a city with extraordinary musical heritage from Chuck Berry to Miles Davis.

2706 Olive St, St. Louis, MO 63103

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis's Laclede's Landing entertainment district presents the most historic setting for nightlife in Missouri — a cobblestone riverfront district of 19th-century warehouses beneath the Gateway Arch where blues, rock, and DJ entertainment serve the Mississippi Gateway city's entertainment community. St. Louis's position at the gateway to the American West creates an entertainment culture shaped by the city's historic role as the jumping-off point for westward expansion.

Laclede's Landing, St. Louis, MO 63102