{"id":388122,"date":"2025-11-18T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:27:19","slug":"every-show-announced-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388122\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Show Announced So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Longhorn Ballroom has a storied history of announcing some big-name concerts across a wide range of genres. This year marked the venue\u2019s 75th anniversary<\/a>, which was celebrated through the Longhorn Jubilee Series with performances by Toadies, The Band of Heathens, Bob Wills\u2019 Texas Playboys and more. The historic Dallas venue still has a plethora of shows scheduled until the end of 2025. <\/p>\n

The Longhorn is also looking into the future. Built in 1950 for music legend Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, it was originally named Bob Wills\u2019 Ranch House. Dewey Groom renamed it to Longhorn Ballroom<\/a>, which has since hosted a wide variety of artists from country legends like Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Pasty Cline and George Jones. Other world-renowned artists in jazz<\/a>, blues and R&B include B.B. King, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, James Brown, Al Green, Johnny Rodriguez, Freddy Fender and Selena. The infamous British punk band The Sex Pistols performed one of Texas\u2019 most legendary concerts there in 1978. <\/p>\n

The Longhorn campus features a newly renovated multi-use building that opened in June, located across the courtyard from the Ballroom and spanning over 26,000 square feet. A 6,500-capacity outdoor amphitheater (\u201cBackyard\u201d) was completed in September. An established restaurant group is managing three fast-casual boutique concepts that\u2019ll culminate in a grand opening, with show nights scheduled to commence in the Spring of 2026.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, the Longhorn launched a new website,\u00a0thelonghorndallas.com<\/a>, to showcase that it is becoming more than a venue, but a campus for creatives. This website offers a first look at the tenants, including an independent apparel shop, a boutique art gallery, a television production studio, a co-working space for creative professionals, multiple live-work artist studios and the world headquarters of Kessler Presents. <\/p>\n

The Longhorn\u2019s artistic director, Jeffrey Liles, spoke about the restoration process during a conversation last week. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole campus will be amazing with office spaces, restaurants and the amphitheater,\u201d he told us<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s one big area that\u2019s called Rock Island. And Rock Island is kind of like Deep Ellum in the respect that it had this whole history back in the day. It wasn\u2019t incorporated into Dallas. In fact, when I worked at the Longhorn the first time, it was on Rock Island, which is what they called it. I think that eventually you\u2019ll start to see people identifying that whole Longhorn campus as Rock Island.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

So far, they\u2019ve had a soft opening with a series of shows this fall that started with the Randy Rogers Band in September. <\/p>\n

Take a look at all the 2025-2026 Longhorn Ballroom announcements below, and check back for more; this list will be updated as new artists are announced.<\/p>\n

2025 Longhorn Ballroom Schedule<\/p>\n

\"PeopleThe Backyard Amphitheater at the Longhorn Ballroom.<\/p>\n

KXT 91.7 presents Neko Case Fall Tour 2025<\/a>
<\/strong>Sunday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.
With John Grant<\/p>\n

Jamestown Revival and The Band of Heathens<\/a> <\/strong>
Friday, Nov. 28, 7:45 p.m.
With special guest Sela Campbell<\/p>\n

Reverend Horton Heat
<\/a>Saturday, Nov. 29, 8 p.m.
With special guests Jason D. Williams and Los Skarnales<\/p>\n

Christone \u201cKingfish\u201d Ingram \u2013 The Hard Road World Tour<\/strong>
<\/a>Friday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Marc Broussard<\/a><\/strong>
Saturday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.
With special guest Taylor Rae<\/p>\n

Tower Of Power: Holiday and Hits Tour<\/strong>
<\/a>Wednesday, Dec. 10, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Blue \u00d6yster Cult<\/strong>
<\/a>Saturday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"ManWilliam Beckmann sings out to a crowd of country fans.<\/p>\n

William Beckmann\u2019s 2025 Las Posadas Tour<\/strong>
<\/a>Friday, Dec. 19, 8 p.m.
With special guest Julianna Rankin<\/p>\n

The Wilder Blue and Silverada<\/strong>
<\/a>Saturday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"\"Old 97\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Old 97\u2019s
<\/a><\/strong>Saturday, Dec. 27, 7:45 p.m.
With special guests Joshua Ray Walker and Rhett Miller<\/p>\n

2026 Longhorn Ballroom Schedule<\/p>\n

Mavis Staples
<\/a><\/strong>Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m.
With special guest Jon Cleary<\/p>\n

Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October
<\/a><\/strong>Saturday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Los Lonely Boys<\/a>
<\/strong>Sunday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Aimee Mann, 22 \u00bd Lost In Space Anniversary Tour<\/a><\/strong>
Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m.
With special guest Jonathan Coulton<\/p>\n

Trampled by Turtles<\/a>
<\/strong>Friday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.
With Special Guest Wild Horses<\/p>\n

The California Honeydrops \u2013 Shine Delights Tour 2026<\/a><\/strong>
Tuesday, March 24, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Jesse Welles
<\/a><\/strong>Friday, March 27, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

La Mafia<\/a>
<\/strong>Saturday, March 28, 8 p.m.
Longhorn Backyard Amphitheater<\/p>\n

Big Head Todd and The Monsters<\/a><\/strong>
Friday, April 17, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Tod and the Inline Six 2026 Tour<\/strong>
<\/a>Sunday, April 19, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Mt. Joy \u2013 Hope We Have Fun Part II
<\/a><\/strong>Friday, April 24, 8 p.m.
Longhorn Backyard Amphitheater
Rhiannon Giddens<\/strong>
<\/a>May 3, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mac DeMarco.<\/p>\n

Mac DeMarco
<\/strong><\/a>Monday, May 18, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

You can find\u00a0the Observer\u2019s\u00a0complete concert listings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longhorn Ballroom has a storied history of announcing some big-name concerts across a wide range of genres.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,3988,1596,980,12079,358,132131,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,51561],"class_list":{"0":"post-388122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-country-music","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-lists","12":"tag-nightlife","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-touring-artists","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-venues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115572116930299741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}