BACKLINE
Two ways in

Your festival — or a festival you want to play?

US festival discovery & booking

Find the festival.
Reach the buyer. Book the set.

Backline is a US-only festival discovery & booking portal for independent DJs, producers, and artist managers. It categorizes 246 US festivals by scale, genre, and geography, surfaces verified talent-buyer contacts, and tracks every submission from saved to booked.

Explore 246 festivals →Get matched
🇺🇸 US-only🎚️ DJ / producer focused✅ Verified channels📊 Submission tracker🧠 Personalized For-You🚫 Ad-free
246
US festivals in catalog
16
Genres · DJ-relevant surfaced
41
States / DC covered
3
Curated w/ booking channels
How it works

Three jobs, one portal

🔎Discover

Stack filters by scale, genre, region, month and source across the full US catalog. Results update instantly.

📇Reach the buyer

Curated festivals carry verified booking channels and a one-click outreach template. Imported stubs link out for research.

📊Track submissions

Save any festival to your pipeline and move it from saved → applied → booked as buyers respond.

Demo dataset. Festival names, locations and dates were imported from public festival directories; genre is inferred and the 3 booking contacts use illustrative .example addresses. Replace them via the enrichment pipeline before any real outreach.