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Search
One search bar finds artists, venues, and your own saved shows, trips and favorites at the same time.
There are two places to use it:
- The bar in the top right of every page, on desktop. Results drop down over whatever you were doing.
- The Search page, from the sidebar. Same search, results laid out down the page. This is the one to use on a phone.
What comes back
Results arrive in labelled sections, in this order.
On Ticketmaster is the live catalog: performers and venues, whether or not you have anything saved for them. Artists, comedians and sports teams all appear here.
Your library is your own data: shows you have saved or been to, trips you have planned, artists you track, and venues you have favorited or seen a show at. This section is what lets you type your way back to something instead of browsing for it.
Events appears only when you have set a filter. See Filtering by place and date below.
Every row carries a small label saying what it is, so VENUE Chicago, IL and ARTIST Hip-Hop/Rap are never mistaken for each other. That matters more than it sounds: searching "vic" returns a person, a theatre in Chicago, and a theatre in Bristol.
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Your own rows show what you already know about them: how many shows you have logged at a venue, whether a show is ticketed or planned, whether you follow an artist. A result you have history with never looks the same as one you do not.
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Names match as you type, for artists and venues alike. Searching "tedes" finds "Tedeschi Trucks Band" before you have finished the word.
Venues also answer to names they have had before. Searching "sears" finds NOW Arena.
Filtering by place and date
Select Add filters at the end of the search bar to narrow by city, a date range, and a category.
With a filter set, an Events section appears with specific shows rather than performers or venues. This is how you answer questions the plain search cannot, like "Wilco, in Chicago, in October".
Two things worth knowing:
- Filters need a place to work from, or a name to search for. A date range on its own is not enough to search, and the Events section will say so.
- You do not need to type anything. A city and a month on their own is a complete question: "everything in Chicago in October".
Active filters show as chips under the bar. Remove one with its x, or clear them all at once.
On the Search page you can also narrow Events to one performer or one venue. Select an artist or a venue from the results and its name joins your filters as a chip, so "Tedeschi Trucks Band, in Chicago, in October" becomes a single question. Remove the chip to go back to searching by name, or select the same row again to open its page.
You can narrow by an artist and a venue at once, to answer "when is this band next at this room". A venue and a city are the other way round: picking a venue clears the city, and typing a city clears the venue, because a venue is already a place. Whichever you set last is the one that stays.
Getting around
Arrow keys move through results, Enter opens the highlighted one, and Esc closes the dropdown. Press Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K) from anywhere to jump to the search bar.
Selecting a result takes you where that thing lives:
| Result | Opens |
|---|---|
| An artist | Their page, with upcoming shows. On the Search page it narrows Events to them first; select again for their page |
| A venue | The venue page. On the Search page it narrows Events to that venue first; select again for its page |
| A trip | That trip in Trip Hub |
| An upcoming show of yours | That show in Shows |
| A show you have been to | That show in History |
Before you have typed anything, the dropdown offers your last three searches. Select the ✕ beside one to remove it, or Clear to remove them all.
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Searching is one way in. You can also select an artist or venue name wherever it appears: on your Shows list, on the Dashboard, and in Nearby Shows.
Artist pages
Selecting an artist opens their upcoming events in date order. Each one shows the event name and date, the venue and city, the type of event, and its on-sale status and ticket link.
An artist's page also carries a short profile: the genre, hometown, and the year they formed, plus links out to their official site, Wikipedia, and setlist.fm.
Alongside the shows you will also find:
- About the Artist: a short biography from Wikipedia. Select More to read the rest.
- Playing Live Lately: the songs they have played most often at recent shows, each with a bar showing how many of those shows included it. Useful for guessing a setlist before you go.
On a wide screen these sit in a column beside the show list, so you can read them while you scroll. On a narrow screen they stack underneath it.
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This fills in from public sources, so coverage varies. Well-known artists get all of it; a band with a small footprint online may show only a genre, or nothing at all.
Event types
TixTrk covers a broad range of live events:
- Music: concerts, festivals, and tours
- Comedy: stand-up shows and comedy tours
- Sports: games and sporting events
All three can be saved to Shows and managed the same way.
Saving a show
On any event, select Add to Wishlist (or the plus button). You will be prompted to choose a status:
- Interested: you are considering it but have not committed
- Confirmed: you are planning to go but do not have tickets yet
- Ticketed: you have tickets in hand
You can always update the status later from Shows.
Tracking artists
On an artist's page, select Track Artist to keep them handy. Tracked artists appear on the Search page so you do not have to search again from scratch.
Tracking an artist does not add anything to your saved shows. It also enables new show alerts: when a tracked artist announces a new event, TixTrk surfaces it in your notifications the next time you log in.
Track Artist is greyed out for the occasional artist TixTrk cannot confirm against its event source. Alerts and Radar rows both depend on that match, so a tracked artist we could not identify would never produce anything. Reaching the same artist from search usually clears it.
Favorite venues
Favorite Venues lets you bookmark venues you care about: your hometown arena, a club you visit regularly, or a theater you are planning to visit. Favorites are saved to your account and sync across devices.
Saving a favorite
There are two ways:
- From search results: every venue row has a heart on its right edge. Select it to save or remove that venue without leaving the results.
- From the venue page: the star button in the header toggles the favorite.
Both do the same thing; only the icon differs by where it appears. Filled means saved, outline means not. Changes are instant, with no separate save step.
Your favorites grid
The Search page shows your tracked artists and favorite venues side by side whenever you are not searching, so both are one click away. Each card shows the venue image (or a map thumbnail if no photo is available), the name, and the city.
What favorites enable
Saved venues power new show alerts. When a favorited venue announces a newly visible event, TixTrk checks for it the next time you log in and surfaces it in your notifications.
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New show alerts are checked once on login and every 30 minutes while the app is open. See Notifications for full details.