Live-music venues worth the trip in Buffalo, New York

The Saarinens’ 1940 National Historic Landmark hall, famous for its acoustics, hosts touring jazz and rock acts alongside the Buffalo Philharmonic.

A 1926 Rapp and Rapp movie palace with Tiffany-designed interiors, restored to its gilded glory and still hosting touring artists between Broadway runs.

A waterfront entertainment complex built into Buffalo’s grain-elevator district that hosts big rock, metal, and hip-hop tours in its indoor hall.

Buffalo’s downtown NHL arena is the region’s stop for arena-scale tours, a short walk from Canalside and the Cobblestone District.

An outdoor concert venue on Buffalo’s Outer Harbor, a former enclosed structure converted into an open-air space with a canopied stage, home of the Outer Harbor Live concert series from summer into October.

Ani DiFranco’s restored 1876 church, with stained glass and pews still in place, is Buffalo’s sanctuary-turned-concert-hall for touring folk, jazz, and indie.

Buffalo’s flagship mid-size club on Main Street, a former 1940s supper club whose calendar stays packed with touring rock, punk, jam, and indie acts.

The renovated successor to the Tralf Music Hall, a downtown general-admission room booking blues, rock, hip-hop, and hardcore touring acts.

Buffalo’s Americana listening room in Black Rock, a small tavern with a big reputation that draws touring roots, country, and rockabilly acts.

A brick-walled Cobblestone District room steps from the arena that mixes touring jam, roots, electronic, and indie acts with tribute nights.

Buffalo’s home stage for punk, indie, and everything too loud for anywhere else, with cheap tickets and a nightly calendar.

An Allentown live-music bar running since 1982, with music most nights and a steady trickle of touring roots and jam acts.

A 300-cap Chippewa Street club that punches above its size with touring punk, hardcore, metal, and emo bills between DJ nights.