Live-music venues worth the trip in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Epic Event Center is a live entertainment and music venue in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and its own site puts its capacity at 2,100 and calls it home to national, regional and local entertainment.

The Resch Center is a Green Bay arena in the Resch Complex that hosts touring concerts alongside Green Bay Gamblers hockey and other events, and its own site bills its venues as Northeast Wisconsin’s premiere venues for concerts, sports, and events.

The Weidner is the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s performing arts center, whose 2,021-seat Cofrin Family Hall hosts touring Broadway, concerts and visiting artists alongside campus programs. Its own site describes it as “a home for UW-Green Bay Music and Theatre & Dance programs, community events, and performances by visiting artists and touring companies”.

Meyer Theatre is a historic theatre in downtown Green Bay with a capacity of 1,011 that, per its own site, is owned by a nonprofit with a community board and is managed and programmed by PMI Entertainment Group.

CupOJoy is a volunteer-run, alcohol-free listening room on the west side of Green Bay that has presented touring Christian artists since 1989 in two rooms of roughly 220 and 550 seats. Its own site says “Artists come from all over the country to the Cup stage” and describes the larger room as “designed to host national touring artists and larger community events”.

Badger State Brewing is a brewery and event venue a block from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, and its own site calls it a gathering place, a hub for live music, special events, and unforgettable celebrations.

Green Bay Distillery is a restaurant and event hall across from Ray Nitschke Field in Green Bay with a large stage in an 8,000-square-foot banquet room, and its own site says it uses the hall to throw some of the best events in Green Bay, including touring and tribute band shows.

The Tarlton Theatre is a restored 1920s Art Deco cinema on the west side of downtown Green Bay that mixes retro film screenings with concerts, jazz, drag and comedy. Its own site describes it as a “circa-1925 Art Deco drafthouse cinema, club, and performing arts venue” and calls it “the proud downtown home of the Green Bay Jazz Orchestra”.