Live-music venues worth the trip in Orlando, Florida

Downtown Orlando’s performing arts campus, where the Walt Disney Theater takes touring music alongside Broadway, and Steinmetz Hall was designed to achieve a perfect N1 sound rating.

Orlando’s downtown NBA arena, open since 2010, which bills itself the city’s premier sports and entertainment destination and carries the region’s biggest arena tours.

The Oak View Group-managed 10,000-seat arena on the UCF campus in east Orlando, which fills the gaps between Knights basketball games with touring concerts.

A 10,000-capacity lakeside outdoor stage at the Central Florida Fairgrounds, open since 2016, that hosts touring headliners and day-long festival bills on the west side of Orlando.

The Live Nation-run House of Blues on East Lake Buena Vista Drive, a Music Hall with a southern-inspired restaurant and bar, and The Front Porch room, drawing national tours to the resort side of town.

A 1921 downtown Orange Avenue theater turned general-admission music hall that calls itself Orlando’s longest-running independent venue, booked with Foundation Presents for national touring acts.

A 1963 former two-screen cinema once nicknamed the Rocking Chair Theatre, now a city-owned room run by the Orlando Philharmonic that holds 991 seated or 1,330 standing and calls itself Orlando’s only independent music venue.

A theater and event space on North Orange Avenue booking touring acts, which bills itself downtown Orlando’s new entertainment destination.

A small standing room beside The Beacham on Orange Avenue that describes itself as intimate live music in the heart of downtown Orlando, booking a deep run of touring acts.

A listening venue of the Timucua Arts Foundation in a Summerlin Avenue house it calls the white house, where internationally acclaimed jazz, folkloric and contemporary classical artists play accessibly priced concerts while visual artists work live on stage.

An Orlando rock club on North Mills Avenue, a three-room block with the Will’s Pub stage, the no-cover bar Lil’ Indies and the Thursday-to-Saturday late-night room Dirty Laundry.

The Dr. Phillips Center’s table-seated room on Magnolia Avenue, which the operator says features one-of-a-kind listening experiences with intimate table-style seating, superb sound and culinary excellence.