Live-music venues worth the trip in Toledo, Ohio

Downtown Toledo’s 8,000-plus-seat multi-purpose arena, with 20 private suites and a club-level lounge, which its own venue page calls one of the nation’s first LEED-certified professional sports arenas and which Legends Global manages.

An independent music venue in Toledo whose homepage headlines The Return of Frankie’s, with a calendar of touring and local bands presented largely under the Innovation Concerts banner.

An 80-seat, phones-off listening room inside TolHouse in Toledo’s historic Vistula District, a room whose about page says jazz first but not only jazz, booking soul, folk and blues too, with a Yamaha grand piano on stage that the page traces to Rusty’s Jazz Cafe.

A Toledo neighborhood tavern whose about page says it has been a cornerstone of the city’s music scene for decades, a tavern where touring bands share the stage with local talent across punk, indie, rock and metal.