Live-music venues worth the trip in Owensboro, Kentucky

RiverPark Center is a nonprofit arts and events complex on Daviess Street in Owensboro built around the 1,479-seat Cannon Hall, and its own site calls it “a premier landmark on Owensboro’s riverfront since 1992”. It hosts concerts as well as Broadway shows and arts education programs.

The Woodward Theatre is the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum’s 450-seat hall on West 2nd Street in Owensboro, a room its own site calls “purpose-built for acoustic music”, with live bluegrass on its stage all year. Its own site invites fans to “Experience Live Bluegrass”.

Brasher’s Little Nashville is a music bar on West 2nd Street in Owensboro, and its own site calls it “a premier music venue” with “world class live bands every weekend”.