Live-music venues worth the trip in Boise, Idaho

Boise State’s ~2,000-seat performing-arts center, the city’s flagship room for Broadway tours, orchestral programs, and major touring acts.

The open-air summer concert series at the Idaho Botanical Garden, a warm-weather amphitheater setting for national touring headliners.

A 1927 Egyptian Revival movie palace at Main Street and Capitol Boulevard, now a seated downtown room for touring concerts, film, and performing arts.

The Duck Club’s year-round concert hall and the spiritual home base of Treefort Music Fest, spanning indie rock, hip-hop, country, and Latin bills.

A ~1,000-capacity downtown concert house on the national club circuit, dependable for touring rock, hip-hop, and country.

The heart of Boise’s indie scene — a downtown lounge open 365 nights where the Duck Club books touring and local rock, punk, and everything adjacent.

A small downtown room built for discovery, booking national, regional, and local bands across rock and its louder cousins.