New York'sEvent Booking &
Live Entertainment Agency.

Find the right venue in New York for your next live event. We help promoters, artists, and private hosts secure halls and theatres in New York, the United States — from intimate 100-seat club rooms to 5,000-cap concert halls. Capacity, layout, AV, parking, and licensing all sorted before you sign.

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We hold weekend dates while you decide — most New York halls give us a 7–14 day exclusive on a soft hold.

New York hall rental pricing splits cleanly across the East River and the Hudson, and Catch Movement reads three working tiers across the metro. Club rooms and lounges (100-400 cap) — Brooklyn Bowl, Sony Hall, Knitting Factory, Webster Hall basement, the Gramercy Theatre — sit at $2,000-$8,000 for a weekend night, generally with house sound and a basic light rig included. Mid-tier theatres and ballrooms (500-1,500 cap) — Town Hall, Sony Hall main, Irving Plaza, the New York Marriott Marquis ballroom, and the Edison NJ banquet circuit (Royal Albert's Palace, Royal Banquet Hall, the Glasshouse Chelsea) — run $8,000-$30,000 with AV add-ons, IATSE union stagehand minimums for the Broadway-tier rooms, and bar-minimum floors at the hotel ballrooms. Arena-scale at MSG, Barclays, and Prudential is quoted per show with a complex revenue split with the operator. For South Asian events specifically, the Edison-Iselin corridor in NJ holds the Gujarati and broader SA wedding and concert pipeline (Royal Albert's Palace, Aashirwad Palace, Sheraton Edison ballroom), while Hicksville on Long Island and Jackson Heights in Queens lean Punjabi and pan-SA respectively. Catch Movement holds direct relationships with the bookers at each room and can verify weekend availability typically within 24 hours. Common pitfalls hosts hit in this market: under-budgeting for the NYS Liquor Authority (SLA) Temporary Beer & Wine Permit or One-Day Catering Permit (minimum 5-day lead), forgetting that any NJ-side event falls under the separate NJ ABC authority with its own application, and missing IATSE crew minimums at MSG, Radio City, and Beacon regardless of show size.

Direct DJ booking for New York, the United States — Punjabi wedding DJs, Bollywood/Hindi DJs, club and EDM DJs, dhol players, and full DJ + dhol packages. Sangeet, reception, club night, college party, corporate event — we match the DJ to the room and the crowd.

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A bundled dhol-DJ-emcee package saves 15–25% versus booking each separately — and the night flows cleaner with one team running the room.

New York's DJ market is the deepest and most segmented in North America, and Catch Movement reads four distinct talent pools across the metro. The Punjabi and Bhangra circuit is anchored in Hicksville, Bellerose, and the NJ-7 corridor — a resident bench of DJs who play Long Island sangeets, weekend functions across Edison and Iselin, and rotate down to DC and up to Boston on the East Coast routing. Bollywood and Hindi-modern DJs (the genre overlap with Afrobeats, hip-hop, and modern Punjabi) anchor club nights at Sona, the Bombay Lounge circuit, and the Edison NJ banquet pre-parties — many doubling as wedding reception DJs in Edison and Iselin. The club and EDM circuit is split between Manhattan (Marquee, Lavo, The DL, the LES club row) and Brooklyn (Output legacy crew, Elsewhere, House of Yes residents) — open-format and house DJs working corporate events, university nights at NYU and Columbia, and private weddings. The fourth pool, which NYC produces more than any other US market, is the wedding-specialist DJ-MC bundle: a single act handling Punjabi, Gujarati Garba, Bollywood, and English crossover plus the dhol-DJ-emcee combo critical to a New York Indian reception flow. Fee bands Catch Movement sees most often in NYC and NJ: local Punjabi or Bollywood wedding DJ for a 4-hour sangeet, $2,500-$5,500; full Bollywood DJ-MC reception bundle (8-10 hours, ceremony through closing), $5,500-$12,000; touring open-format DJ for a corporate or club booking, $4,000-$15,000; named touring talent quoted on routing. Sound and basic lighting are bundled below $5,000; above that, AV is itemised separately and routed through the venue's preferred vendor or a Catch Movement partner.

Wedding entertainment booking for New York, the United States — Punjabi singers, dhol players, Bollywood live bands, English-market wedding singers, and emcees. Whether it's a sangeet, mehndi, baraat, reception, or a full multi-day Indian wedding, we route the right talent for the moment.

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A multi-day Indian wedding has three to five distinct entertainment moments. We sequence all of them under one contract, with one rep on event day.

A New York South Asian wedding typically spans three to six distinct entertainment moments across multiple days and often two states. The baraat (groom's procession, usually outside the Edison-Iselin banquet hall, the Westchester or Long Island estate, or the Newark or Jersey City venue) runs with dhol players, sometimes nagara and trumpet — Gujarati baraats in Edison frequently include extended brass and Garba transitions; Punjabi baraats in Hicksville lean dhol-heavy and louder. The ceremony itself (Anand Karaj at a gurdwara in Richmond Hill, Queens or Glen Cove LI; Hindu vivaah at Edison-area temples or hotel ballrooms; Nikah in Jersey City or Brooklyn) is entertainment-free or features a vocalist. The sangeet (high-energy with dhol, Punjabi or Bollywood singer, live band, DJ) runs at $5,500-$25,000 for the entertainment stack alone. The reception (DJ-MC + occasional live act + dhol) is the largest stack — $6,000-$15,000 routine, more for headline performers. Catch Movement's most-booked NYC combinations: (1) dhol player + DJ-MC bundle for a Saturday reception in Edison or Hicksville, $5,500-$11,000; (2) sangeet headliner package — a Punjabi singer, Bollywood vocalist, or live Garba band — $8,000-$45,000 by tier; (3) full ceremony-to-close package across 3-4 days $25,000-$75,000 mid-market and $100,000-$500,000+ for celebrity-act sangeets. Live Bollywood and Gujarati Garba bands now feature at roughly 1 in 4 mid-to-upper-tier NYC weddings. Bilingual emcee bookings (English plus Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, or Urdu depending on the family) add $1,500-$5,000 to the stack.

Direct booking for stand-up comedians touring through New York, the United States. We work with English-market headliners, regional features, and Punjabi / South Asian comedy circuits — for clubs, theatres, corporate events, college shows, and private parties.

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Routing matters more than fee. We usually save 20–40% by aligning to a comic's existing tour passage through your city — same set, lower number.

New York's stand-up scene is the deepest in North America. Mainstream anchors are the Comedy Cellar (MacDougal), Gotham Comedy Club (Chelsea), Carolines on Broadway legacy circuit (now routed through Stand Up NY and the West Side Comedy Club), New York Comedy Club, and the Brooklyn alt-scene at Union Hall, Littlefield, and Threes Brewing. The South Asian and Punjabi-language stand-up vertical has its strongest US presence here: Hasan Minhaj headlines Carnegie Hall and Beacon Theatre runs; Russell Peters books MSG and Prudential; Zakir Khan, Vir Das, Kanan Gill, Biswa Kalyan Rath, and Kenny Sebastian all route through NYC on every US tour. Punjabi-language stand-up (Jaspreet Singh, Hardeep Singh) pulls strong from Hicksville LI and Edison-Iselin NJ. Catch Movement books across mainstream English (Just for Laughs alumni, Netflix specials tier), Hindi and Punjabi-language comics, and Bangladeshi and Urdu-language stand-up for the Queens and Brooklyn diaspora communities. Fee bands: open-mic and developing acts (15-min spots), $100-$400; established local headliners (45-60 min sets), $1,500-$5,000; touring national English headliners, $8,000-$25,000; named SA comedians on tour (Hasan Minhaj, Zakir Khan tier), $15,000-$60,000 plus travel; arena-tier acts (Russell Peters, Vir Das at the Beacon-MSG ceiling) quoted on production. Corporate, college (NYU, Columbia, Stony Brook, Rutgers), and private bookings pay a 30-60% premium over public-show rates for clean-material guarantees. For private SA wedding or sangeet comedy interludes (20-30 min before the DJ), $3,500-$10,000 is the working New York range.

Direct artist booking specialising in Punjabi, Bollywood, and South Asian touring acts for New York, the United States. Whether it's a wedding reception, a sangeet night, a private corporate show, or a public concert, we route the right artist for your audience and budget.

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Private bookings of top-tier Punjabi headliners are routing-dependent. We quote within 48 hours once we see the artist's window against your New York date.

Direct artist booking in New York means routing a touring act — Punjabi, Bollywood, South Asian, Hindi, Gujarati, or English-market — to either a public ticketed show or a private and corporate engagement, and NYC is the single most lucrative stop on any US tour. The biggest annual flows are Punjabi headliner tours (Diljit Dosanjh, Karan Aujla, AP Dhillon, Shubh have all played MSG, Barclays, or Prudential Center within the last three seasons), Bollywood concert tours (Arijit Singh sells out MSG; Sonu Nigam plays NJPAC and Prudential; Atif Aslam routes Pakistani diaspora through Jersey City and Edison venues), and Gujarati Garba-Dandiya specials that anchor the Navratri season in NJ. NYC is the natural anchor of the East Coast leg — the typical routing is NY-Boston-Washington DC-Atlanta, with Toronto cross-border the most-common Canadian feeder. The window to lock an artist for a private NYC engagement is usually 8-16 weeks before the public tour announces. Fee bands we see in NYC: rising touring acts (300k-1M monthly listeners), $8,000-$35,000 private; established mid-tier (1M-5M listeners), $35,000-$150,000; top-tier headliners (Diljit, Karan Aujla, Arijit Singh, Atif Aslam tier), $250,000-$1,500,000+ for a private show, public tour fees quoted by promoter share. Visa and tax compliance is non-trivial in the US: most Punjabi and Bollywood touring artists enter on a P-2 (reciprocal exchange) or O-1B (individual artist of extraordinary ability) visa, with 60-90 day lead time on USCIS petitions filed by the US promoter or agent. IRS imposes a flat 30% non-resident performer withholding tax (IRC §1441/1442) on gross fees; that drops to 0-15% under the US-India tax treaty Article 18 when a Central Withholding Agreement (CWA) is filed in advance. Catch Movement coordinates the P-2/O-1 petition, the CWA filing, and the artist's US tax compliance with the artist's management for any direct-booking of $35,000 or more.