Live Music in Pasadena, California: Mid-November 2026

This edition of the live music roundup covers what is newly confirmed around Pasadena for mid-November 2026, and the headline is a coincidence worth planning around: Saturday, November 14 stacks two very different shows, PLAVE's virtual K-pop world tour at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. and Kate Nash at Sid The Cat Auditorium in South Pasadena at 8:00 p.m. It also adds Dummy's Wednesday, November 4 date at the schoolhouse room, which has appeared on the venue's listings since the earlier November editions went out. Every date and price below was verified on October 1, 2026 against an event listing or the venue, and anything that could not be confirmed for these exact dates was left out. Your host is Alejandro Espitia, Broker Associate and REALTOR with Apex Realty and Investments, California license 01213999, with 18+ years across Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Gabriel, and Riverside, in English and Spanish.

PLAVE: the Keep It Manic world tour at the Pasadena Civic

The big-ticket night is PLAVE at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Green Street, on Saturday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m., the virtual K-pop group's Keep It Manic world tour and its United States stop in Pasadena. PLAVE's members perform as animated avatars on stage, the format that set the group apart in the K-pop scene, and the Civic is the room carrying the show: the city's historic municipal auditorium in the heart of Old Pasadena, two blocks from the restaurants and bars of Green Street and Colorado Boulevard. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster and AXS, and for a world-tour stop in a room this size, the advice is to book before the week of. For seats in a specific section, the venue page linked below carries the box office details.

Kate Nash at Sid The Cat: the same night, in the schoolhouse

Across town, Saturday, November 14 gets a second option: Kate Nash at Sid The Cat Auditorium, 1022 El Centro Street in South Pasadena, at 8:00 p.m., the British singer-songwriter known since her 2007 breakout single Foundations, with tickets from about $25 on the venue and listing links below. The schoolhouse room is a fraction of the Civic's size, so the same night offers a genuine choose-your-own-adventure: arena-scale spectacle in Old Pasadena or an intimate songwriter show in South Pasadena, with the Metro A Line linking the two downtowns for anyone who wants both. Some listing sites also show an added Sunday, November 15 date, so if Saturday fills, the weekend is not over.

Dummy: a midweek add at the schoolhouse

One more date has filled in since the earlier November editions: Dummy plays Sid The Cat Auditorium on Wednesday, November 4, a midweek add on the venue's listing pages. The room's November run keeps adding stops between the dates earlier editions mapped, so if you are planning a month of shows, the pattern is clear: book the dates you want now, because the small rooms sell out on name recognition alone.

The rest of the November board, recapped

For regulars, the rest of the month is already mapped in earlier editions. Sid The Cat's run through mid-November includes Liana Flores on November 5, Greg Freeman on November 6, Ian Sweet on November 7, Heavens to Betsy on November 8, Sparta on November 12, and Jake Xerxes Fussell on November 13, with Mary In The Junkyard and Squirrel Flower at the start of the month, then Craig Finn on November 17 and Georgia Maq on November 19. The Pasadena Symphony's Beethoven program plays Ambassador Auditorium on Saturday, November 14, and Moby and Underworld play Brookside at the Rose Bowl on November 7, all covered in the editions linked below. As of this check, the Pasadena Civic has no other November concerts currently on sale: David Sedaris on November 10 is spoken word rather than music, and the Civic's next concert night after PLAVE is the Nutcracker in December, so the two November 14 shows above are the month's musical anchors.

Where the shows are listed

• PLAVE at the Pasadena Civic, Ticketmaster
• Pasadena Civic Auditorium events, AXS
• Kate Nash at Sid The Cat, doLA
• Kate Nash at Sid The Cat Auditorium, JamBase
• Sid The Cat Auditorium concert schedule, Bandsintown
• Sid The Cat Auditorium, official site

What the mid-November rooms say about the neighborhood

A Saturday that stacks a world-tour K-pop show at the Civic and a songwriter's room in South Pasadena is a small map of the area's cultural range: a historic municipal auditorium in Old Pasadena that can carry a global tour, and a converted schoolhouse in South Pasadena that holds a couple hundred and books original acts week after week. Two rooms, same night, a short train ride apart, is exactly the density that makes the walkable blocks in between feel alive, and the neighborhoods around both are the ones to tour when you weigh a move. Alejandro Espitia of Apex Realty and Investments brings 18+ years of local real estate and home financing experience to that read, in English or Spanish, for buyers, sellers, and investors across Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Gabriel, and Riverside.

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Alejandro Espitia

Real Estate Professional · Apex Realty & Investments

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