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Live-music venues worth the trip in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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The Ark (opens in a new tab)

Ann Arbor

The Ann Arbor listening room that its own page counts among the top music clubs in the world and calls Michigan’s nonprofit home for folk and roots music, with live music over 300 nights a year in a 400-seat Ford Listening Room where no seat is more than 50 feet from the stage.

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The Blind Pig (opens in a new tab)

Ann Arbor

The Ann Arbor club started in 1971 by Tom Isaia and Jerry Delgiudice in a former mill office, a club named for a Detroit slang term for police officers bribed by speakeasy proprietors, with the 8 Ball Saloon underneath offering surcharge-free tickets to Blind Pig shows and free shows of its own.

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Blue LLama Jazz Club & Restaurant (opens in a new tab)

Ann Arbor

The Ann Arbor jazz club and fine dining restaurant whose own page says it hosts live jazz five nights a week, seating guests for dinner and a show or for the cover alone, and runs its own record label.

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Kerrytown Concert House (opens in a new tab)

Ann Arbor

A nonprofit Ann Arbor concert house in a renovated 19th-century home, an intimate L-shaped hall with a prized German Steinway, a space its own story page says has earned a national reputation as an ideal venue for chamber music, jazz and cabaret and as an avenue for adventurous programming.

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