Portland has 266 venues mapped here, and the shape of that list matters more than the raw number: bars, performing arts theaters, wine bars, brewpubs and breweries make up most of it, with only 26 rooms categorized specifically as live music venues. Almost all of the 71 community tips on file are auto-scraped booking listings rather than firsthand reports from bands, so treat this as a lead list to work from, not a set of reviews. Nobody has reported pay or booker response times here yet, which means you will be finding that out yourself.
What The Map Actually Covers
The venue-type breakdown tells you where the gigs in this city live. Bars are the single largest category at 55, followed by 28 performing arts theaters, 26 live music venues, 22 wine bars, 16 brewpubs, 14 breweries, 13 wineries and 12 night clubs. If you are a band that only plays dedicated music rooms, you are working from a much shorter list than 266.
The wine bar, winery, brewery and brewpub count is worth sitting with. Between them that is 65 rooms, and the scraped listings for places like ENSO Winery, Landmass Wines Tasting Room, Company, Division Wines, Corkscrew Wine Bar, Little Beast Brewing Beer Garden, Lazy Days Brewing Co, Treebeerd's Taphouse and Deschutes Brewery Portland Public House all have booking contact info on file. That is a real avenue in Portland if your act works at low volume.
Most of these entries came in as imported booking information rather than from a band who played the room. No one has written up a load-in, a door split or a sound situation for any of them yet.
Room Sizes And What Fits
Only 24 of the 266 venues have a known capacity, so the size picture is partial. Within that sample the smallest is 40, the median is 150, and the largest is 900.
The named rooms with capacities on file give you a usable ladder. Wonder Ballroom is the biggest of them at 778, with Lincoln Performance Hall at 466 and Alberta Abbey at 450 in the mid-large tier. The Get Down Music Venue sits at 270, Wilf's Restaurant & Jazz Bar at Union Station at 200, 40 LBS Coffee + Bar at 150, ENSO Winery at 120 and Kelly's Olympian at 111.
Below that it gets small fast: Bible Club PDX at 80, Little Beast Brewing Beer Garden and Upper Room Portland at 60, Company and Havalina at 50, and Landmass Wines Tasting Room and 21ten Theatre at 40. A median of 150 across the known sample means most of the rooms anyone has measured here are club-sized or smaller, and a band building from nothing in Portland should plan around rooms under 150 first.
Genre Signals In The Listings
No genre tags have been reported by bands, but a handful of the scraped listings carry genre information from the venue side, and it lines up into a few clusters. Jazz shows up repeatedly: Radio Room, Keys Lounge, Wilf's Restaurant & Jazz Bar at Union Station and Jo Bar & Rotisserie all list it, with Corkscrew Wine Bar listing gypsy jazz specifically. Blue Diamond Bar & Grill lists blues.
On the louder end, Kenton Club lists punk, indie rock, experimental, electronic and ska, and Star Bar lists rock and punk. McMenamins White Eagle Saloon & Hotel lists rock, blues, hip hop and country. Hostel Cafe lists live music, open mic, traditional American old time music, americana and Irish music.
Rainbow Room and CC Slaughters Nightclub and Lounge both list drag, electronic, hip-hop and karaoke, which is a different booking conversation than a band show and worth knowing before you pitch. All of this comes from venue listings rather than from bands who played, so use it to aim your pitch, not to predict the room.
What Nobody Has Reported Yet
There are zero pay structure reports for Portland in this data. No door splits, no guarantees, no bar-percentage deals, nothing. We cannot characterize what rooms pay here, and any band telling you otherwise is guessing.
There is also no booker-response data on file, so there is no way to say which rooms answer and which go quiet. What the data does confirm is that a large number of venues have a booking contact on record, including Virginia Cafe, The Society Cafe, Space Room Lounge, Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge, Secret Grove, Noble Rot, Multnomah Whiskey Library, Rontoms, Swan Dive, Starday Tavern, Turn! Turn! Turn! and Hawthorne Hideaway. A few rooms, including Coopers Hall and one wine shop lounge space, route booking through a named individual rather than a general inbox.
If you play Portland, report the pay back. Seventy-one tips and not one of them describes what a band got paid is the single biggest hole in this city's page. The full venue list below has everything mapped, including the 200-odd rooms with no tips attached yet.
Compiled by AI from MRC Gig Map's own records for this city — 266 mapped venues and 71 community notes — with no outside sources. Last updated September 7, 2026. Played one of these rooms? Add what it paid and whether the booker replied.