Concerts & Events This Weekend in Dallas

Dallas events this weekend

Dallas weekends start on Thursday for most of the entertainment districts. Henderson Avenue, Knox Street, Lower Greenville, and Bishop Arts all fill up by happy hour, and the first theater curtains at the Winspear or AT&T Performing Arts Center go up around 7:30.

Most arena shows at American Airlines Center start between 7:30 and 8, with concert venues like the Factory in Deep Ellum, South Side Ballroom, and Granada Theater running doors at 7 and headliners around 9. Saturday is the heaviest night across the metroplex — every major venue is typically booked, often with multiple shows in the same building or block.

Sunday afternoons in the fall belong to the Cowboys, with kickoffs at AT&T Stadium pulling 90,000 into Arlington by noon. Deep Ellum is the live music corridor for weekend nights.

The Bomb Factory / Factory in Deep Ellum books the mid-size rock, hip hop, and electronic acts; Trees and the Curtain Club cover smaller touring slates; and the bars on Elm, Main, and Commerce streets run late with their own DJ and band programming. Granada Theater on Lower Greenville handles the indie and Americana slate.

Bishop Arts on the south side of the Trinity has the cocktail-bar nightlife — Bishop Cidercade, Eno's, the Wild Detectives — for a quieter weekend night without the Deep Ellum volume. Free outdoor programming runs on a strong seasonal cycle.

Klyde Warren Park, the deck park over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway between downtown and Uptown, programs free concerts, food trucks, and family events most weekends from March through November. Vitruvian Park in Addison runs a free summer concert series in May and June.

Reunion Tower's NYE GeO-Deck fireworks pull thousands downtown on December 31st. Pick the weekend you are in town, check what falls into that window, and route the rest of the trip around it.

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