The State Fair of Texas opens Friday, September 25, and runs 24 days through Sunday, October 18, at Fair Park. This is the fair’s 140th year, and the theme is “Stars, Stripes, and Howdies.” Gates open at 10 a.m. daily, closing at 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with last entry at 9.
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Fall in Texas is the season that actually earns its own calendar. The heat finally breaks, the State Fair takes over Fair Park, and every stage in the state, from a Fort Worth opera house to a Renaissance fair two hours from anywhere, gets busy at once. Here’s everything worth building a weekend around between now and the end of the year, from Broadway tours and opera openings in Dallas-Fort Worth to the festivals worth a road trip anywhere in Texas.
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This is one of those weeks where Dallas reminds you why it punches above its weight as a live music city. The range alone — Australian post-punk legends, an 80s synth-pop double bill that belongs at an arena, a country songwriter who has been quietly building one of the best catalogs in Texas, and a hip-hop producer who has spent the better part of thirty years rewriting what electronic music can do — is the kind of lineup that drops on a Tuesday and you realize you’re already behind on ticket buying.
And that’s before you account for the bars that don’t make the Ticketmaster calendar but have been running their own music programs every weekend without asking for credit. Here’s what’s worth your time this week, by night.
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It’s a good weekend to be in Dallas. Mother’s Day is Sunday, a brand new park opens Saturday, and the music calendar is stacked from Friday night through Sunday. We’ve covered a lot of restaurants this week, so flip back in time a bit and gander at what’s good and what’s new.
Here is how to spend the next three days.
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Hardworking to her core and guided by an instinct for honest storytelling, Chloe Hoecker has been building her career the long way—one stage, one song, and one audience at a time. Often referred to as “Missouri’s Country Sweetheart,” Hoecker combines powerful vocals, energetic performances, and a warm-but-witty presence that makes her immediately disarming. It’s a balance of sweetness and quiet fire that has become her signature.
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Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country returns to Dallas for a live performance at The Kessler Theater on February 21, following the release of their acclaimed third LP, Horizons (August 22 via Retrace Music). Led by Nashville-based guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader Daniel Donato, the group continues to expand its genre-defying “Cosmic Country” sound—a high-velocity blend of country, rock, bluegrass, funk, and psychedelia engineered to thrive on stage. Horizons has been widely praised, with Glide Magazine calling it “without question, their strongest studio recording to date.”
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