Live-music venues worth the trip in Fort Worth, Texas

The self-proclaimed world’s largest honky-tonk, a Stockyards institution since 1981 with a huge dance floor and a real touring country calendar.

A grand 1998 downtown hall of ~2,050 seats under a domed rotunda, hosting touring concerts alongside the resident symphony and opera.

A speakeasy-style basement jazz club off downtown’s Sundance Square, dedicated to straight-ahead live jazz.