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

Thomas Lamb’s 1928 Loew’s State, Syracuse’s surviving movie palace, hosts touring concerts and comedy in a lavish 1920s interior.

Central New York’s lakeside shed on Onondaga Lake, opened in 2015, the summer stop for the country and rock tours that play the big amphitheater circuit.

The Oncenter’s 2,117-seat civic theater, the usual Syracuse stop for seated touring singer-songwriter and Christian-music dates.

A downtown waffle joint with a 200-cap stage that runs jazz jams, open mics, and touring funk and jam acts nearly every night.

A 1919 neighborhood movie house turned 700-cap club, Syracuse’s home for jam, bluegrass, and rising country tours.