Live-music venues worth the trip in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

An auditorium rebuilt as the Florida Panthers’ community hub, with an ice plex beside a live entertainment hall its operator calls South Florida’s newest music venue, now booking national touring headliners.

A general-admission downtown Fort Lauderdale rock club open since 2004 with a main floor, second floor and mezzanine, where artists of all genres perform at what it calls the unapologetically bold venue.

A 1,147-seat neo-classical theater that opened as Parker Playhouse in 1967 and is now run by the Broward Center, the seated Fort Lauderdale house for its Rock Series of touring acts.

Fort Lauderdale’s self-described live music venue on Federal Highway, a standing-room general-admission club that has put on 25 years of concerts, with an open-air patio.