Live-music venues worth the trip in Lowell, Massachusetts

A 2,800-seat memorial hall built in 1922 and dedicated by Calvin Coolidge, still Lowell’s big seated room for national touring acts and Broadway tours.

A 1998 arena on the Merrimack that is home ice for UMass Lowell hockey and has hosted Bob Dylan, Drake, Katy Perry and Dropkick Murphys between college games.

A tree-lined National Park Service lawn in the mill district where you bring your own chair, home since 1990 to the nonprofit Lowell Summer Music Series and its national touring acts under the stars.

A club in a historic Lowell mill building that brings touring acts of all genres to the city while cultivating Lowell’s own music scene.