The Elliott Hall of Music is a theater located on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Elliott Hall of Music is host to several annual performing arts events presented by Purdue Convocations such as national Broadway tours, popular musical artists, comedians, dance companies, orchestras, lecturers, and more.
Over the years, it has hosted many notable performing artists and lecturers, including Bob Dylan (1981 and other years), Pearl Jam (1994), Lady Gaga (2010), Mark Morris Dance Group, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Robin Williams (2008), Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the 14th Dalai Lama.
For winter commencement exercises, students enter the Hall of Music through the Purdue Bands entrance located behind the stage, where they proceed under the structure and to the rear of the auditorium where they enter, as this entrance is much closer to the building where candidates are marshaled for the procession.
(1987), Chicago's Bob Newhart (1987), Sting (1988), Illinois' Cheap Trick (1988), Bill Cosby (1991), Duran Duran (1994), Pearl Jam (1994), Stone Temple Pilots (1997), Adam Sandler (1997), Chicago's Smashing Pumpkins (2000), No Doubt (2002), Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds (2003), John Mayer (2004), Dave Chappelle (2004), Chicago's Wilco (2006), Bob Saget (2007), Robin Williams (2008), Katy Perry (2009), Lady Gaga (2010), Snoop Dogg (2010), Avicii (2012), Garrison Keillor (2012), Weird Al Yankovic (2013), Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman (2014), Brad Paisley (2015), Panic at the Disco (2016), Kentucky's Cage the Elephant (2017), Lafayette's Jeremy Camp (2018), Blue Man Group (2020), and Noah Kahan (2023).