Live-music venues worth the trip in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Its own story page traces a 1951 movie house in Quimby Village through a nine-million-dollar renovation across 2017 and 2018, funded by the generosity of Chuck and Lisa Surack of Sweetwater Sound and countless community partners, to a main performance hall with “room for nearly 2,000 guests.” The site says the doors opened in early 2018 and that the room hosts rock, country, blues, jazz, tribute acts and comedy shows.

Its own arena page calls it a flexible event space with capacities ranging from 3,000 up to 13,000, home to Komets hockey and Mastodons basketball, and its calendar mixes touring concerts with bull riding and Disney On Ice.

Its own history page describes an open-air theatre molded into a grassy hillside in Franke Park, opened in 1949 and seating 2,751 under the open-sided dome added in 1976, and the summer concert series runs rain or shine because the seating is covered.

Its own site describes “a covered outdoor music venue located on the south end of the Sweetwater campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana,” with a sound system custom-designed by Sweetwater. It hosts national touring acts running from rock and R&B to country, blues and jazz.

Its own site calls it Fort Wayne’s number one original music venue and dive bar, one of the oldest operating bars in the city, booking original music most nights of the week; it is 21 and over.

Its own venue page describes a non-profit, all-ages music hall in downtown Fort Wayne, formerly C2G Music Hall, that seats up to 400 and has been acclaimed by visiting artists as the best stage in Northern Indiana.

Its own site calls it a Fort Wayne restaurant and live music bar next door to the historic Clyde Theatre, pairing pub food and cocktails with live local bands.