Live-music venues worth the trip in Galax, Virginia

The Blue Ridge Music Center is a music venue and museum on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, Virginia, and its own site says it “preserves, interprets, and presents the evolving musical traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountains,” with the grounds home to “an outdoor amphitheater and an indoor interpretive center.”

The Rex Theater is a historic theater in downtown Galax, Virginia, that first opened in 1940, and its own site says it is now a live music “venue featuring a wide variety of local, regional, and national acts.”