Music Events in New York: November 2026
Updated 5 min read Elias Iliopoulos
Music events in New York this November run at a volume no other city on Mood matches, even as the total steps down a touch from last month: 4,893 listings across the metro area, against October's 5,100, spread across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island and the New Jersey rooms the city's calendar has always treated as its own. In Mood's November data, jazz still sits above every other genre tag in the city, logged 1,172 times against electronic's 826 and hip hop's 760, ahead of Dave Matthews Band's two-night stand at Madison Square Garden and a run of arena bookings at Barclays Center that carries from the first weekend of the month to the last.
Madison Square Garden and Barclays carry the arena month
Dave Matthews Band play Madison Square Garden on November 12th and 13th, the kind of two-night sellout-tier run the Garden reserves for acts with a crowd big enough to fill back-to-back nights rather than one. The same room hosts Karan Aujla on the 18th, a Stevie Wonder fiftieth-anniversary tribute built around Songs in the Key of Life on the 19th, and sombr across two separate dates, the 23rd and 24th, closing out the Garden's November card.
Barclays Center runs its own month in parallel across the East River: Omer Adam for two nights at the top of November, Young Miko on the 5th, a stop on the all-ages Disney Worlds Collide tour on the 7th, Jessie Reyez on the 19th, The Neighbourhood with Nessa Barrett opening across the 21st and 22nd, and John Summit closing the venue's month with two dates, the 28th and 29th. John Summit's CTRL Escape Arena Tour stop is the only dance-music booking at either arena this month, dropped into a run otherwise built around pop and Latin pop names.
Newark and Long Island pick up the arena overflow
Across the Hudson, Prudential Center in Newark carries three major dates: the XG World Tour: The Core on the 14th, Motionless In White's The Sweat and Blood Tour on the 19th, and Rock The Bells Festival 2026 closing the month on the 29th, the same night John Summit plays Barclays. UBS Arena out in Belmont Park, Long Island, runs a smaller but steady card - Anuel AA, another Disney Worlds Collide date, comedian Matt Rife, and Los Tigres del Norte's Los Tigres del Mundo tour closing the venue's November - a reminder that the arena circuit around New York extends well past the two Manhattan and Brooklyn rooms most visitors think of first.
The jazz calendar still out-produces everything else
Jazz is the most-applied single genre tag in Mood's November New York data for the same structural reason it was in October: the city's jazz rooms run two and three sets a night, most nights of the week, and each set is its own listing. The lineup at the top has shuffled since last month, though. In Mood's data, Birdland Jazz Club leads the circuit this November with 106 listed sets, edging out Smalls Jazz Club's 103 - a reversal from October, when Smalls led 121 to Birdland's 103. Jazzcultural follows at 94, Mezzrow at 82, Barbès in Park Slope at 77, The Django in Tribeca at 59, Blue Note at 53, Dizzy's Club at 37 and Village Vanguard at 17, a circuit that has run on the same weekly-residency model since well before any of these rooms had a website.
Outdoor season closes fully for the winter
Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, which closed out its own season with FISHER's two-night stand in mid-October, carries zero bookings in November on Mood's calendar, and the same goes for PNC Bank Arts Center across the river in New Jersey. The city's open-air stage circuit is dormant now until spring, which leaves the month's live-music calendar entirely indoors - arenas, theaters and the jazz basements - for the first time since early in the year.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many music events are there in New York this month?
Mood lists 4,893 music events across the New York metro area for November 2026, from single jazz sets in West Village and Hell's Kitchen basements to Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center arena shows and Newark's Prudential Center.
What kind of music dominates the New York calendar?
By listing count, jazz - 1,172 November listings carry the tag, ahead of electronic at 826 and hip hop at 760. That ranking reflects how the jazz circuit is scheduled rather than what draws the biggest crowds: rooms like Birdland Jazz Club and Smalls Jazz Club run multiple ticketed sets nightly, so a single venue can post over 100 listings in a month.
Is Dave Matthews Band playing Madison Square Garden in November?
Yes. Dave Matthews Band play the Garden on November 12th and 13th, part of a card that also includes Karan Aujla on the 18th, a Stevie Wonder fiftieth-anniversary tribute on the 19th, and sombr across the 23rd and 24th.
Are there still outdoor concerts in New York in November?
No. Forest Hills Stadium in Queens closed its season in mid-October, and PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey carries no November dates either - the city's outdoor stages stay dormant until spring.
Find New York events on Mood
The full New York calendar for November - Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center arena runs, the Newark and Long Island overflow, and the jazz basements still running multiple sets a night - is browsable by date and genre on Mood, updated as promoters confirm through the winter.
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