Live-music venues worth the trip in Fargo, North Dakota

North Dakota’s biggest room — the NDSU football dome scales down into arena and theater configurations to land the state’s marquee stadium and arena tours.

Fargo’s mid-size arena and junior-hockey home, running a steady calendar of national touring concerts.

A restored 1926 art-deco movie palace downtown that pairs film with concerts and touring performers in an intimate historic house.

The state’s premier indie and rock club, an independently owned room above Dempsey’s that books more national and regional touring bands than anywhere else in North Dakota.

A restored downtown church turned listening room, with strong acoustics and a calendar of concerts and private events.