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

Live Oak Bank Pavilion is an outdoor amphitheater on Cowan Street in Wilmington, and its own site calls it “Wilmington’s Largest Music Venue”.

Brooklyn Arts Center is a restored 1888 church turned event venue in downtown Wilmington that its own site says “can hold a standing capacity of 750 people”, and it hosts shows by outside promoters, with sound and lighting supplied by its concert vendors. It adds that “concertgoers and promoters have been coming back” for years.

Greenfield Lake Amphitheater is an outdoor amphitheater on Amphitheater Drive beside Greenfield Lake in Wilmington that hosts public concerts, and its own site calls it “Wilmington’s favorite amphitheater since 1962”, with room for up to 1,400 guests.

The Wilson Center is a performing arts center at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, and its own site says its main stage “regularly accommodates large-scale touring concerts and Broadway performances” in a hall that holds 1,499 guests.

Bowstring is a bar and live music venue in a restored former soda-bottling building in the Soda Pop District of downtown Wilmington, and its own site calls it “A premier live music venue, event space, and neighborhood bar & kitchen” with sound and lighting built “to accommodate nationally-touring acts.”

Seven Mile Post is a bar and live music venue on Market Street in Wilmington, and its own site says its stage features “the hottest local talent and touring acts” in a “cozy setup”.

Waterline Brewing Company is a Wilmington craft brewery that occupies a 1940s hardware warehouse, since restored, under the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, and its own site says it hosts “live music, food trucks, beer releases, and special events”; it has an outdoor stage as well as its taproom.