DFW Live Music Calendar
This week's concerts and shows across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Updated every 2 hours from the dallas-music-scene.com events pipeline — the most comprehensive live music listing in North Texas.
Upcoming Shows — Next 3 Days
Texas Blues Trio
The Goat Dallas
Holland K Smith
The Goat Dallas
Bandolero Performs @ 9pm
The Barley House
Black Crowes Tribute @ 9pm
The Barley House
St Lucia
Granada Theater
Chêne Film Tour
Granada Theater
DEVILDRIVER - STRIKE AND KILL TOUR w/ Upon A Burning Body & Ov Sulfur
House of Blues Dallas
Silverada (18 and Over)
Billy Bob's
DFW's Premier Live Music Venues
Trees
2709 Commerce St, Dallas, TX 75226
Trees is where Deep Ellum lives. A 1,000-capacity room that's hosted everyone from indie bands on the way up to national acts that fill the floor — and the room sounds better than most venues twice the size. If you're looking for the heart of the neighborhood's music scene, this is it. Get there early, stand in the back if you want to breathe, and don't bother with the VIP.
Get Tickets →Three Links
2704 Commerce St, Dallas, TX 75226
Three Links is where Deep Ellum sends its teenagers — or rather, where the teenagers who grew up in Deep Ellum end up when they age out of Trees but still want something that doesn't smell like a sports bar. The room holds maybe a couple hundred, the stage is tiny, the PA is ragged at the edges, and every single show feels like you're watching something before anyone else figures out what it is. Alternative, punk, experimental — if it's coming through Dallas and it doesn't need an arena, it ends up here.
Get Tickets →Granada Theater
3524 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75206
A Dallas institution since your grandparents were around — this 1946 movie palace in Lower Greenville has seen it all, from the golden age of single-screen cinemas to a rep house in the '80s that was basically an Alamo Drafthouse before there was an Alamo Drafthouse. Seven nights a week you'll find something on stage — a touring songwriter the night before they get famous, a punk band from Denton that needed a real room, a country act the grandparents are already talking about. Americana, indie, punk, the occasional national act that picked Granada on purpose. The acoustics will spoil you for smaller venues, and the mezzanine bar is where you actually watch the show instead of being in it. Next door is Sundown at Granada for the more intimate set, and next door to that is Snuffer's — the original cheese fries. You haven't had cheese fries until you've had Snuffer's. Bring your parents; they probably saw their first movie here.
Get Tickets →Longhorn Ballroom
216 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX 75201
Nobody agrees what neighborhood Longhorn Ballroom belongs to — Design District, the Cedars, maybe the stretch of Dallas that exists only beneath freeway ramps. The building has earned the confusion. Elvis played here. So did the Sex Pistols and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the little museum inside has the receipts. The restoration kept the huge wood floor and the glorious old-Texas weirdness, then added bathrooms you can use without making peace with God. Come for country, punk, soul, or whatever else can fill the room; arrive early enough to wander the lobby. And leave the freshly detailed car at home — the gravel lot will humble it.
Get Tickets →Billy Bob's Texas
100 E. Exchange Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76106
The original Fort Worth honky tonk. 127,000 square feet, three stages, a real indoor bull ride, and a dance floor that holds hundreds. Live country seven nights a week — the biggest names in Texas music when they come through, a DJ on the smaller stage filling in the gaps, line dancing lessons on the patio if you're into that. The cocktails are actually good (the old-fashioned is worth the wait) and the bartenders have been doing this longer than you've been alive. Out-of-towners get dragged here first; locals keep coming back because it's not subtle and it's not trying to be. Hotel Drover is just down the street when you don't want to drive home.
Get Tickets →Tannahill's Music Hall & Lounge
1525 E. Exchange Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76106
Tannahill's is where you end up when Billy Bob's is too much — which is saying something, because Billy Bob's isn't actually that much. Two steps down from the big stage but ten steps up in authenticity. They've been doing live country here since the '70s — pickup bands, road-tested songwriters, the kind of acts that know how to play for a dance floor instead of a photo op. The dance floor is small, the drinks are strong, and nobody here is trying to impress anyone. Stockyards regulars know — this is where the real honky-tonk energy is, the stuff the tourists never find.
Get Tickets →The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
1701 S. Lamar St, Dallas, TX 75215
Lived-in is the word — Echo Lounge is what happens when a Design District warehouse stops pretending to be a destination and starts actually hosting shows. High ceilings, real mixing board, a sound system someone spent real money on. Bookings lean rock, country, and the kind of indie acts you read about on a Tuesday and go see on a Friday. The crowd shows up for the band, not for the photo op, and the back patio is where half the conversations that matter at a Dallas show actually happen. Bring a sweater, because the A/C is not messing around. Parking is a hike, which is exactly right — if you can't walk a couple blocks for a show, you don't deserve the cheap street spot.
Get Tickets →The Bomb Factory
2713 Commerce St, Dallas, TX 75226
The Bomb Factory sits on the corner of Deep Ellum's main drag like it belongs there — because it does. A couple thousand people fit inside this former warehouse, and when a national act rolls through Dallas and needs more room than Trees but doesn't need an arena, this is where they end up. The sound is clean, the sightlines are good, and the crowd is here for the music. Not a VIP lounge, not a backdrop for a photo op — just a room full of people watching a band. Deep Ellum's answer to the question of where you go when you're too big for the small rooms but not ready for Toyota Center.
Get Tickets →The Door
2704 Commerce St (back room), Dallas, TX 75226
The Door lives in the back room of Three Links, and calling it a basement show undersells it. This is where Deep Ellum gets weird — the noise, the DJs, the bands that don't fit anywhere else. The room is rough, the sound is raw, and nobody here is performing for an Instagram photo. It's the opposite of polished, and that's exactly the point. Come here when you've already figured out what you like.
Get Tickets →Lee Harvey's
1801 N. Hall St, Dallas, TX 75202
Lee Harvey's is old Dallas — the kind of place they don't make anymore. Outdoor space, cheap drinks, local bands most nights, and a cross-section of every kind of Dallasite you'll find anywhere in the city. Dive bar, outdoor bar, live music bar — all at once, all real. Population skews older than Deep Ellum by about twenty years, which means nobody's here to be discovered. That's the point.
Get Tickets →House of Blues Dallas
2200 N. Lamar St, Dallas, TX 75202
Yes, it's a chain. Yes, you're going anyway — the Dallas location on Lamar is the one that figured out what to do with the brand instead of running it into the ground. The folk art on the walls is a real collection from the Delta, not franchise wallpaper. The main room is sized exactly for touring acts who've graduated out of Trees but haven't made the AAC leap yet. The Sunday gospel brunch is a DFW institution, not a tourist trap — bring out-of-towners here, they won't forget it. And when the hostess walks you to your table, do not pretend you're not ordering the voodoo shrimp. Nobody orders the voodoo shrimp. Everybody orders the voodoo shrimp.
Get Tickets →The Balcony Club
10201 Abrams Rd, Dallas, TX 75208
The Balcony Club sits above a parking lot on Abrams Road looking like it hasn't changed since the neighborhood was new — because it probably hasn't. Lakewood's oldest bar, one of Dallas's oldest jazz rooms, a place where the house pianist might have been playing here for thirty years and you'd never know until he takes a solo. Thursday through Sunday acts, mostly jazz and blues, some singer-songwriters. The sound system sounds like it was built for listening, the crowd is not pretentious, and nobody here is trying to be cool. Get there early — the good seats go first.
Get Tickets →The GOAT
3326 W. Lovers Ln, Dallas, TX 75229
It is the GOAT — greatest of all time. Lakewood's dive bar where a 65-year-old grandma might try to pick you up while you're sitting next to a 25-year-old hipster. East Dallas old school. No pretense, no attitude, just characters and cheap drinks and music that doesn't suck.
Get Tickets →Truck Yard Dallas
6232 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75206
Austin energy transplanted to Dallas — trashy, glitzy, and unapologetically fun. Get there in the afternoon when it's all locals, stay until the night crowd rolls in and the tourists take over Greenville. Excellent local country acts and, not that you'd expect it, the best cheesesteak in town.
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How the Calendar Works
The DFW Live Music Calendar aggregates show listings from the dallas-music-scene.com events pipeline, which scans venue websites and local event listings across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex every 2 hours. Events shown here span the next 3 days across all neighborhoods.
The calendar covers every major venue in DFW — from the 4,000-capacity Longhorn Ballroom in the Design District to the 200-cap back room at Three Links in Deep Ellum, where the stage is small enough to spit on and the PA is held together with good intentions. Touring acts, local bands, and open mic nights are all included.
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DFW's Live Music Neighborhoods
Dallas-Fort Worth has distinct live music corridors, each with its own character:
- →Deep Ellum — The Commerce Street corridor between Ross and downtown, where the murals on Commerce and Main have been repainted so many times they're basically tradition now. Trees, Three Links, and The Door anchor a scene that doesn't bother to explain itself — indie, punk, electronic, hip-hop, and the occasional act that fits none of those tags. The crowd is here for the music, not the photos. Wear comfortable shoes; you'll end up walking between venues.
- →Lower Greenville — Greenville Avenue from Mockingbird to Ross, a half-mile strip that does dinner, drinks, and live music in roughly that order. The Granada Theater is the anchor — 1946 movie palace, the room sounds better than anything twice the size, and the mezzanine bar is where you actually watch the show. Open mics at The Balcony Club and Lee Harvey's keep the local scene honest nightly. And the cheese fries next door to Granada are a tradition, not a recommendation.
- →Design District / South of Downtown — Longhorn Ballroom sits on Ervay Street in a building nobody's quite sure what neighborhood to call home. The area's warehouse spaces attract country, rock, and Texas music acts looking for a wood dance floor and a parking lot full of gravel.
- →Fort Worth Stockyards — Billy Bob's Texas is the big room, the 500-cap dance floor, the place you bring out-of-towners. Tannahill's is where the Stockyards regulars actually go — smaller, the kind of dance floor that holds a real two-step, and a stage that books pickup bands and road-tested songwriters who play for the room, not the camera. The whole district runs on Texas country and classic honky-tonk — bring boots, leave the pretension at home.
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