Events by Keyword or Phrase
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Our online database typically contains over 20,000 records of upcoming events in Indianapolis, central Indiana and across the state, and is FULLY SEARCHABLE. When you do a search, the results show you what's currently in our database that matches what you type in the search box, by simply entering a single keyword or phrase. You can even find event listings by the venue's Web address, if you know it, such as www.slipperynoodle.com.
For example, enter the name of a musician, the name of a venue, part of the name of an event, any word or phrases like “football” or “music” or “free event” or “Dance Kaleidoscope,” etc., WITHOUT THE QUOTATION MARKS.
Search Tips:
1. Generally you only need to type ONE WORD to find what you are looking for. You may use upper case or lower case characters.
2. Do singular searches (like "horse") instead of plural searches (like "horses") for better results. Why? An example here would be "horse racing" (not "horses racing").
3. No abbreviations! For example, "Fort Wayne," not "Ft. Wayne."
4. The shorter the better! The more words you use, the fewer results you will see. For example, just type "Conseco" for "Conseco Fieldhouse" or "Pepsi" for the "Pepsi Coliseum," etc.
5. You don't need to type something like "live shows at the Indiana Repertory Theatre" to find such shows. Just type "repertory" (without the quotes, of course).
6. Just type the search word or words. Don't use quotation marks (single OR double) in our Search Box.
7. Try different spellings and combinations for the best results.
8. Don't use the ampersand (&) in a search. We're trying to eliminate all usage of this character on our Web site as it produces inconsistent search results.
9. If all occurrences of an event have passed, nothing will show up in your search. Past events are eliminated from our database daily. Only events in our database from today and later appear in the word search results, not events before today.
10. If you are looking for a person (a musician, an actor, etc.), typically you can just enter his or her last name.
11. If you are searching for events via a Web address, don't bother to type the "http://" prefix. Just type what comes after the prefix, such as "www.murat.com", or even just "murat.com."
12. For a complete list of EVERY upcoming event in our database by the NAME of the event, click here. This is the BEST way to see a list of every upcoming event in our database, and a great way to find things to do if you are just searching at random for something to do.
EXAMPLE: A search for the word "speed" might give you listings (depending upon what is in our database) at the Indianapolis Speedrome, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Anderson Speedway, Fastimes Indoor Karting, Speedway High School, Speed Dating events, an REO Speedwagon concert, etc.—any listing in our database containing the five consecutive characters S-P-E-E-D. A search for "speedway" would eliminate the dating and concert examples. Get the idea? Try different combinations for the best results.
