That’s a wrap on NIVA '24 in the Big Easy!
We’re signing off from our 3rd annual conference in New Orleans! Thanks for joining us—highlights and NIVA '25 updates on the way.
NIVA ‘24 Conference
JUNE 3–5, 2024 | NEW ORLEANS, LA
WITH OPENING PARTY ON JUNE 2
As the leading conference for independent music and comedy venues, festivals and the promoter industry, NIVA ‘24 brings the live entertainment community together to The Big Easy to support, educate, and connect industry leaders across the United States.
Conference programming includes an array of sessions addressing current issues affecting the live entertainment field, spanning marketing, ticketing, safety, and advocacy. Evening events will be held at iconic independent New Orleans venues with live shows featuring legends like George Porter Jr. & Runnin Pardners and Rebirth Brass Band.
Explore NIVA ‘24
We are venues, promoters, festivals, and performing arts centers.
Our stages are the center of live performance in every community, including music, comedy, theater, spoken word, and dance.
NIVA In The News
WAtch: How independent music venues united to take on ticket price gouging
The PBS NewsHour's Tim McPhillips spoke to those behind the scenes and on stage, about a new era of cooperation to keep small, independent venues, and artists, in business. This segment, featuring NIVA members The Atlantis and First Avenue, details the challenges still threatening the marketplace of live music venues that artists need to survive.
You can also read the accompanying article by Tim McPhillips, Some small music venues kept rocking even after COVID shut them down. Here’s how they did it.
Recent News Highlights
As the nation’s live entertainment association, our mission is to cultivate, elevate, and advocate for a sustainable and equitable ecosystem of independent performance venues, festivals, and promoters.
The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) is the national trade association representing thousands of independent live entertainment venues, festivals, promoters, and more. NIVA works to preserve and nurture the ecosystem of live entertainment. NIVA empowers members and their teams with member benefits and advocacy on the state and federal level, an annual industry-leading conference, and more.
The National Independent Venue Association is committed to equity in our support and advocacy for independent venues, and seek to create and encourage opportunities for venues, promoters, and festivals owned, operated, and staffed by people of color, women, non-binary, LGBTQ+, veterans, and people with disabilities. NIVA is committed to creating and upholding a safe space for its members where respectful conversations around diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility can continue to happen. NIVA makes an ongoing commitment to prioritize DEI initiatives and learn more about best practices and approaches to DEI in the live performance industry, and to provide resources and professional development opportunities to support NIVA’s members in doing the same for their individual businesses.