Live-music venues worth the trip in Fairfax, Virginia

Home to a “nearly 2,000-seat Concert Hall” on George Mason University’s Fairfax campus, the Center for the Arts is a performing arts venue that its own site says “presents an annual season of national and international professional artists through its Great Performances at Mason and Family Series”, with programming “offering the best of classical music, opera, jazz, global music, dance, theater, and more.”

EagleBank Arena seats 10,000 on George Mason University’s Fairfax campus and has staged shows since 1985, and its own site says it “hosts Mason men’s and women’s basketball games, concerts, family shows and commencement ceremonies.”

The Auld Shebeen is an Irish pub in Fairfax, Virginia, established in 2004, and its own site says, “Don’t miss Live Music at The Auld Shebeen!”