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Clubs, techno and house rooms, live music venues, jazz bars, karaoke, social dance nights and festivals in Detroit and across Michigan, with address, phone, hours and the official calendar.
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Clear filters ↺Live music clubs / Downtown Traverse City (below North Peak Brewing)
A basement Irish pub below North Peak Brewing Company in downtown Traverse City, with a dance floor and a weekly live-music program.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Interlochen Center for the Arts campus, Green Lake
An open-sided lakeside auditorium on Green Lake and, with 3,917 seats, the largest venue at Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Downtown Cheboygan
A small theater at The Crown on Main in downtown Cheboygan presenting live music, comedy and magic.
Festivals / Downtown Northport (Leelanau Peninsula)
A free all-day street festival of music, art and dance in downtown Northport on the Leelanau Peninsula, held the last Saturday of September.
Live music clubs / East Front Street, Downtown Traverse City
A bar with a food-truck lot and patio on East Front Street in downtown Traverse City, with patio concerts in the warm season.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Little River Casino Resort, Manistee
A 1,600-seat event center at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians' casino resort north of Manistee.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Downtown Ludington
A community arts center on Harrison Street in downtown Ludington, with galleries and a performance hall for acoustic concerts.
Lounges & rooftops / Downtown Petoskey
A hi-fi listening lounge on Mitchell Street in downtown Petoskey where you pick records from the vinyl library and hear them on an audiophile sound system, cocktail in hand.
Festivals / Private meadow site near East Jordan, Charlevoix County (Northern Michigan)
A small off-the-grid camping music festival in a meadow near East Jordan in Northern Michigan, held in late August.
Festivals / Traverse City bayfront (Bayside Music Stage)
Traverse City's week-long summer festival celebrating the region's cherry harvest, with free family events and ticketed evening concerts on the shore of Grand Traverse Bay.
Live music clubs / Hotel Perry (Stafford's Perry Hotel), Downtown Petoskey
A pub on the lower level of the historic Hotel Perry in downtown Petoskey, with live music on Friday and Saturday nights.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Odawa Casino Resort, Petoskey
A 900-seat showroom at the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians' casino resort in Petoskey, booking touring country, classic-rock and tribute acts.
Lounges & rooftops / Downtown Traverse City (Cass St & Lake Ave)
A Prohibition-style cocktail lounge on Lake Avenue in downtown Traverse City, set in an 1800s train weigh station, with live local music.
Live music clubs / Downtown Traverse City (Front St)
A small pub on Front Street in downtown Traverse City, in the same building as the North Bar rooftop; its current operation is not confirmed.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Downtown Manistee
A 1903 opera house in downtown Manistee, now a regional arts center.
Live music clubs / Downtown Bellaire (Antrim County)
The original brewpub of Short's Brewing Company in downtown Bellaire, Antrim County, with a beer garden across the street that hosts free live music.
Clubs & dance floors / Downtown Traverse City (Franklin St)
A video dance bar on Franklin Street in downtown Traverse City, serving the LGBT community since 1988 and, as its motto says, welcoming everyone.
Festivals / Dickson Township Park (Manistee County)
A free, one-day, family-friendly roots music festival in Dickson Township Park in Brethren, surrounded by the Manistee National Forest, held every June since 1978.
Live music clubs / North Lakeshore Drive (near Ludington State Park road)
A restaurant, bar and entertainment center on North Lakeshore Drive in Ludington, with bowling, a beer garden and outdoor country concerts in summer.
Festivals / Harbor Park on Tawas Bay
A three-day blues festival in Harbor Park on Tawas Bay in East Tawas, organized by volunteers since 2002.
Karaoke / East Front Street, Downtown Traverse City
A private karaoke room for groups of up to 10 in downtown Traverse City, on the lower level below The Coin Slot arcade bar.
Festivals / Central Neighborhood, Traverse City (Fifth to 13th Street, Division to Oak Street)
A free porch-music festival in Traverse City's historic Central Neighborhood, where you stroll the streets while local musicians play on residents' porches.
Live music clubs / Grand Traverse Band casino, east of Traverse City
The Grand Traverse Band's casino and hotel in Williamsburg, east of Traverse City, with free live bands in its Waterfall Bar/Lounge on weekend nights.
Karaoke / Indian River (Cheboygan County)
A bar and restaurant in Indian River, Cheboygan County, serving Michigan craft beer with a weekly entertainment calendar.
Live music clubs / Warehouse District
A Warehouse District brewpub in Traverse City with a regular live-music calendar.
Social dance: Latin, swing, country / Lower Harbor, downtown Marquette
A volunteer-run social dance community in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula, with free Wednesday lessons and social dancing, held outdoors at Lower Harbor Park in summer.
Live music clubs / North Third Street
A craft brewery and pub on North Third Street in Marquette with a monthly live-music calendar.
Live music clubs / Downtown Houghton
A restaurant, lounge and nightclub in a historic fire house in downtown Houghton, with a large stage for local and regional bands.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Downtown Calumet, Keweenaw Peninsula
A historic opera house opened in 1900 in the copper-mining town of Calumet on the Keweenaw Peninsula, hosting concerts, theater and tours.
Lounges & rooftops / Grand Hotel, top floor
A cocktail bar in the cupola at the very top of Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel, with views of the Straits of Mackinac and nightly entertainment in season.
Festivals / Calumet Lions Park, Calumet Township, Keweenaw Peninsula (Upper Peninsula)
A two-day camping music festival in Calumet Lions Park on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula, run as a fundraiser for the township park.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Kewadin Casino Sault Ste. Marie
A theater of about 1,500 seats inside the Kewadin casino in Sault Ste. Marie, the largest concert room in the eastern Upper Peninsula.
Concert halls & amphitheaters / Kewadin Casino St. Ignace, north of downtown
An event center at the Sault Tribe's Kewadin casino in St. Ignace, north of downtown, used for occasional concerts and shows.
Lounges & rooftops / Downtown St. Ignace waterfront
A seasonal craft-cocktail bar on State Street on the downtown St. Ignace waterfront, serving handcrafted drinks and small plates with live music.
Karaoke / Downtown Marquette (west Washington Street)
A bar on West Washington Street in downtown Marquette, known locally for karaoke; its current operation is not confirmed.
Live music clubs / Cadotte Avenue, near Main Street, Mackinac Island
A restaurant and bar popular with island locals on Cadotte Avenue near Main Street on Mackinac Island, with a large patio and live entertainment after dark.
Addresses, phone numbers and hours come from each venue's official channels, and every page shows when we checked them. Nightlife changes fast: check the venue's current calendar, age policy and cover before you go.