The King of Country is coming home again.
George Strait announced Friday morning that he’ll return to the Lone Star State stage next spring for a concert at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, home of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
The show, set for April 25, will feature fellow Texans Miranda Lambert and rising star Hudson Westbrook, making it a full-blown celebration of the state’s country lineage.
Tickets go on sale Nov. 21 at 10 a.m. through georgestrait.com and if history is any indication, they won’t last long. Strait’s last Texas throwdown, a record-shattering June 2024 show at Kyle Field in College Station, drew an astonishing 110,905 fans, the largest ticketed crowd ever for a U.S. concert. That night felt like a coronation, and if Lubbock gets anything close, it’ll be a landmark moment for a city that’s produced its own share of country legends.
This latest announcement comes on the heels of a year that’s shown Strait at his most grounded and generous. Just weeks after devastating floods tore through the Hill Country over the Fourth of July, Strait traded stadium lights for something smaller and far more personal: a benefit concert in Boerne at the Estancia at Thunder Valley. Limited to 1,000 guests and priced at $1,000 a head, the evening raised funds for flood victims, and, in true Strait fashion, turned heartbreak into harmony.
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Midway through that night, Garth Brooks appeared unannounced, sending the intimate crowd into a frenzy as the two country titans shared the stage in an unforgettable moment that blurred the line between legend and local hero.