Live-music venues worth the trip in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Timberwood Amphitheater is the Magic Springs amphitheater in Hot Springs, and its own site says it is “home to the Magic Springs Summer Concert Series and stand-alone events that take place throughout the year”.

Oaklawn Event Center is the 1,500-seat concert room at Oaklawn on Central Avenue in Hot Springs that hosts concerts and comedy shows, and its own site calls it a “distinctly modern venue” with “state-of-the-art sound and lighting”.

Maxine’s is a live music venue on Central Avenue in downtown Hot Springs that takes band bookings through its own site, which says it caters to “many musical tastes including indie, rock, pop, experimental, blues, jazz, metal, bluegrass, folk, and old country”. Its own site tells the story of Maxine Temple Jones, a Hot Springs madam who once ran a brothel upstairs from the bar.

The Big Chill is a music venue on Higdon Ferry Road in Hot Springs with what its own site calls “the Main Stage”, and it says there is live music there on Friday and Saturday nights.

The Ohio Club is a bar on Central Avenue in Hot Springs that its own site calls “Arkansas’ Oldest Operating Bar”, and it says the club still hosts live music today.

Vapors Live is an entertainment venue on Park Avenue in Hot Springs, and its own site says the restored building serves as “one of the region’s premier destinations for live music, theater, comedy shows, and private events”.