Live-music venues worth the trip in Hartford, Connecticut

Live Nation’s big outdoor room north of downtown Hartford, billed as Hartford’s concert home since 1995 and the state’s stop for touring headliners at scale.

Downtown Hartford’s civic-center arena, where the Wolf Pack hockey schedule shares the building with arena-tour headliners passing through Connecticut.

Infinity Music Hall’s Front Street room in Hartford, a relaxed and intimate hall with a mezzanine above the stage level and acoustics it proudly calls pristine.

A Hartford rock club whose stage the venue says launched Staind, Sevendust, Godsmack and Fall Out Boy, with the smaller Webster Underground as its second stage and touring acts packing both rooms.

A classic tavern in Hartford’s Front Street entertainment district across from the convention center, with a spacious outdoor patio and a live-music calendar of local and touring acts.