Live-music venues worth the trip in Greensboro, North Carolina

The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue at One Abe Brenner Place in downtown Greensboro, and its own site says it “is home to touring Broadway productions, concerts” and also books comedy and family shows.

First Horizon Coliseum is the Greensboro Complex’s main arena, seating 22,000 and known as Greensboro Coliseum before it was renamed, and its own site says it has a long record of “providing world-class live entertainment”, with major concerts alongside college basketball tournaments.

White Oak Amphitheatre is an outdoor amphitheater in Greensboro that opened in 2011, and its own site invites guests to “Enjoy a wide variety of live music and the gorgeous weather of a North Carolina spring or summer evening”.

The Carolina Theatre of Greensboro is a 1927 theater on Greene Street that its own site calls “downtown Greensboro’s community performing arts center”, and it says the theatre “is home to concerts from artists across all genres, classic and independent movies, community theatre and dance”.

Piedmont Hall is a Greensboro room that its own site calls a “club-style live music venue”, with a standing-room floor inside a converted Canada Dry warehouse.

The Pyrle is a live music venue on Elm Street in downtown Greensboro in the former home of Triad Stage, and its own site calls it “Greensboro’s new hidden gem for live music”, with “a standing capacity of up to 1,000”.

Flat Iron, in downtown Greensboro, is what its own site calls “a live music venue and bar”, with owners who are musicians and bar-trade veterans and shows staged “in an intimate room with professionally treated acoustics.”