Live-music venues worth the trip in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

An outdoor park amphitheater whose free Sunday-evening Summer Music Series has drawn crowds to the lawn since 1962, a singular central-PA summer institution.

A 1,600-seat purpose-built theater running 300-plus dates a year of touring concerts, comedy and its own original productions.

An Irish-rooted downtown bar-and-music complex whose 500-capacity standing room hosts live music most nights, from trad and bluegrass to blues, jazz and rock.