Live-music venues worth the trip in Santa Barbara, California

A 4,500-seat stone amphitheatre built in 1936, terraced into a hillside with an ocean view behind the stage. The marquee outdoor room on the Central Coast.

California’s oldest continuously operating theatre, founded 1873, hosting jazz, roots and contemporary music in an intimate historic house.

A downtown Santa Barbara room with live music every night of the year, full bar, and a 1920s slant.