Boston Live Music Venues
Where can you hear—or, in many cases, play—great live music in Boston? The opportunities are too numerous to provide an all-inclusive list, but here are a few key spots to get your Boston live music search started.
Berklee Venues
- Berklee Performance Center
- The Red Room at Cafe 939
- David Friend Recital Hall
- Berk Recital Hall
- Oliver Colvin Recital Hall
- Berklee Dining Hall
Large Venues
- Symphony Hall
- TD Garden
- The Hatch Shell
- Citi Performing Arts-Wang Theater
- House of Blues
- Orpheum Theater
More Intimate Venues
- The Middle East
- Wally’s Café Jazz Club
- Scullers
- Paradise Rock Club
- Brighton Music Hall
- Club Passim
- Regattabar
- Ryles
- Royale
- Cantab Lounge
- Lizard Lounge
- Great Scott
- The Sinclair
- Toad
- The Beehive
- Darryl’s Corner Bar and Kitchen
- The Plough and Stars
- Midway Café
- Johnny D’s Uptown
- Lilypad
- The Burren