{"id":138691,"date":"2026-01-26T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/138691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:42:09","slug":"george-strait-the-king-of-country-adds-two-2026-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/138691\/","title":{"rendered":"George Strait, &#8216;The King of Country,&#8217; adds two 2026 shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WYQF3FLZTZFAFJVJXZGGEPPADI\">George Strait announced Monday two additional shows in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MXQQ53BV5RH2ZFTGUVV5VYRUOA\">The country music legend will perform April 9 and April 11 in Austin, Texas. The shows will feature an in-the-round format, meaning that he\u2019ll perform to an audience on all sides instead of against a backing set design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ITPHVMUVWBF53PCEQTAPOWWPTU\">Country artist William Beckmann will serve as the opener for both nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3TEA5HAZORD4TON4VDBPJQBHEA\">A press release promises \u201can intimate evening of timeless hits,\u201d including selections off Strait\u2019s 2024 studio album \u201cCowboys and Dreamers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3YDFK33ZSFD3LHKONH7EA2NVUQ\">Strait retired from touring in 2012, and, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2025\/05\/king-of-country-hints-at-how-much-longer-hell-perform-its-been-around-50-years-now.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2025\/05\/king-of-country-hints-at-how-much-longer-hell-perform-its-been-around-50-years-now.html\">in May, announced just how much longer he thought he would perform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CFXMOYSVQRBMPNLPOSBXEVHLPA\">\u201cThe King of Country\u201d is known for hits including \u201cCarrying Your Love With Me\u201d and \u201cAll My Ex\u2019s Live in Texas.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ABVB53KE5NFJRIVMIJIJFOMH6A\">Strait is one of the best-selling country artists of all time, with 60 chart-topping songs and 31 platinum &#8211; or multiplatinum &#8211; albums. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Strait announced Monday two additional shows in 2026. The country music legend will perform April 9 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,727,25230,27],"class_list":["post-138691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-festival","tag-iheartcountry","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}