Counted on Saturday 31 October 2026
South African live music in numbers
316 upcoming dates at 93 rooms in 46 towns, by 131 acts — 263 of them with a published ticket price. Counted from the KeenToGo catalogue on Saturday 31 October 2026, covering everything on sale between today and Saturday 6 November 2027.
Free to quote and to link to. The method is at the bottom of the page. Lees in Afrikaans
Dates by month
Shows, and the number of separate NIGHTS they fall on — four rooms on one Saturday is one night. Months are venue-local.
| Month | Shows | Nights | Nights with an Afrikaans act |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| November 2026 | 129 | 25 | 15 |
| December 2026 | 119 | 28 | 20 |
| January 2027 | 33 | 17 | 5 |
| February 2027 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| March 2027 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Towns, rooms and what a ticket costs
The median is taken over the shows in that town that publish a price in rand; the number of those is printed beside it, and a town with fewer than five is left blank rather than given a number we cannot stand behind.
| Town | Upcoming shows | Rooms | Median ticket | Priced shows behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Town | 54 | 13 | R 250 | 44 |
| Johannesburg | 51 | 11 | R 150 | 47 |
| Pretoria | 43 | 4 | R 325 | 33 |
| Durbanville | 28 | 1 | R 250 | 28 |
| Brackenfell | 22 | 1 | R 220 | 22 |
| Paternoster | 17 | 1 | R 253 | 17 |
| Mossel Bay | 13 | 6 | R 265 | 8 |
| Gqeberha | 11 | 4 | R 210 | 10 |
| Stellenbosch | 11 | 4 | R 235 | 10 |
| Potchefstroom | 5 | 3 | — | 0 |
| Brakpan | 3 | 1 | — | 3 |
| Centurion | 3 | 1 | — | 3 |
| Durban | 3 | 3 | — | 3 |
| Franschhoek | 3 | 2 | — | 3 |
| Hermanus | 3 | 1 | — | 3 |
The busiest rooms
By the number of dates each has coming up.
| Room | Town | Upcoming shows |
|---|---|---|
| Pieter Toerien Montecasino Studio Theatre | Johannesburg | 35 |
| Die Boer | Durbanville | 28 |
| SunBet Arena | Pretoria | 27 |
| Cafe Roux | Cape Town | 22 |
| Heroes Live | Brackenfell | 22 |
| Die Koelkamers Teater | Paternoster | 17 |
| Atterbury Teater | Pretoria | 11 |
| Centrestage @ Baywest | Gqeberha | 7 |
| Mossel Bay Stadsaal | Mossel Bay | 6 |
| Artscape | Cape Town | 5 |
| Drostdy-teater | Stellenbosch | 5 |
| Theatre on the Bay | Cape Town | 5 |
How these numbers are made
Everything above is counted from the shows KeenToGo currently lists in South Africa — 316 dates at 93 rooms on Saturday 31 October 2026. Nothing is modelled, sampled or estimated, and no figure covers shows that have already happened or have been cancelled.
A show counts in the month of its local date at the venue, not in UTC. “Nights” are separate dates rather than separate shows. Ticket prices are the lowest published price for a show, in rand, and only shows whose seller publishes one are counted — 263 of 316 here; an unknown price is never read as free, and free entry is only recorded when the seller says so.
The “Afrikaans circuit” count is nights on which an act carrying an Afrikaans genre plays — 35 such acts appear in this window. It is a floor, not a census: an act we hold no genre for is not counted.
The page rebuilds itself from the catalogue, so the figures move as rooms announce dates. Quote it with the date printed at the top, and link to this page rather than copying the tables — the numbers here will be current, and the ones you copy will not be. Corrections and additions: tell us.