This week offers North Texas music fans a wide array of genres and venues to choose from as we welcome warmer weather. From a three-night residency from an old country singer who came up on the punk stages of Los Angeles, to hip-hop with a community perspective, these 10 shows are sure to get you ready and into action. They should also give you a pretty solid idea of the local bands to be looking out for weekly.
Dwight Yoakam
6 p.m. Thursday, April 15– Saturday, April 17, at Billy Bob’s Texas, 2520 Rodeo Plaza, $25-$80 at axs.com
Well, it’ll be guitars, Cadillacs and hillbilly music when Dwight Yoakam takes the stage for three nights in a row in celebration of Billy Bob’s Texas’s 40
Perhaps the biggest story in local music news has to do with Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to lift the statewide mask mandate and open Texas back up entirely while the pandemic is still very much going on and this state is ranked 48th in vaccine rollout.
The owners and operators of several
Dallas music venueshave responded to the governor by maintaining their mask policies for the sake of protecting their staff, and, well, all of us. Dallas musicians have also spoken out about their preference to continue performing at drive-in concerts and low-capacity crowds for their own and their fans’ protection.