Live-music venues worth the trip in Newport, Kentucky

MegaCorp Pavilion is a PromoWest concert venue on West 4th Street in Newport that hosts shows both indoors and outdoors, with a “ground-breaking design accommodating indoor audiences of up to 2,700 and outdoor audiences for the summer shows of up to 7,000 concert goers”.

Mansion Hill Tavern is a blues bar on Washington Avenue in Newport founded in 1988 that hosts live blues bands, and it runs a Sunday Blues Jam where players sign in and sit in with its house band.