Live-music venues worth the trip in Tupelo, Mississippi

The Huntington Bank Arena is a concert arena and conference center on East Main Street in Tupelo, open since 1993, and its own site says it “seats nearly 10,000 for concerts” and “continues to be a favorite stop among artists.”

Backline Music Hall is a listening room on Cliff Gookin Boulevard in Tupelo that its own site calls a “100-person live music and event spot”.

Blue Canoe is a bar on North Gloster Street in Tupelo that its own site calls “Tupelo’s home stage for original music since 2011”, with a stage for “Songwriters, jam bands, country, blues, and whatever else sounds good loud.”