Live-music venues worth the trip in Pensacola, Florida

A 1925 vaudeville and silent-movie palace on Palafox that citizens saved from demolition and reopened in 1981, restored again in 2009 and still home to its original Robert Morton theatre pipe organ.

A 10,000-seat arena open since 1985 as the Pensacola Civic Center, one of the busiest facilities in Florida, whose stage has held Jimmy Buffett, Cher, Kiss, Elton John and Kenny Chesney.

An intimate 850-person live music hall at the foot of Palafox in downtown Pensacola that books acts of all genres, the city’s club-level room for touring bands.

Downtown Pensacola’s self-described legendary live music venue since 1983, a Tarragona Street bar that came back after a hiatus and is booking touring bands again under the same name.