Live-music venues worth the trip in Akron, Ohio

Marcus Loew’s 1929 John Eberson theater, one that closed for 16 months from 2002 for a $22 million restoration and expansion and that its history page counts, among facilities of its size, as one of only five remaining atmospheric theaters in the country, with a 2,600-seat main hall and the 220-capacity Knight Stage room.

The 1920 Goodyear Hall auditorium on Akron’s historic Goodyear campus, designed by Walker and Weeks and once Akron’s largest stage, reopened as a seated concert theater through the East End mixed-use redevelopment its history page describes.

A downtown Akron room whose about page calls it Ohio’s award-winning destination for premier live jazz and says it was designed and crafted from the ground up with the presentation of live jazz in mind, inside the sandstone Hermes Building of the 1870s, with a jazz photography gallery and scratch kitchen.

A Northside District room that its own banner calls Downtown Akron’s Hottest Live Music Venue, with doors at five on show nights and weekend brunch, printing ticket prices all-in with no fees.

A room in Akron’s Kenmore district that opened in 2015 as what its own story calls a benchmark in the revitalization of the district’s boulevard and the positioning of the district as Akron’s Music Row, run by musicians, with the Rialto Living Room’s small solo stage out front and a recording studio in the building.