{"id":240931,"date":"2026-04-08T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:21:13","slug":"come-for-the-brisket-stay-for-the-music-at-this-fort-worth-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240931\/","title":{"rendered":"Come for the brisket, stay for the music at this Fort Worth festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brisket and spare ribs are the main attraction of the Syndicate Smokedown &amp; Music Festival \u2014 but the bands are an enticing dessert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The nonprofit event at the Fort Worth Stockyards kicks off at noon on April 18 with BBQ samples, a pitmaster competition and early sets by Austin singers Weldon Henson and Ellis Bullard and the Houston-based Broken Spokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The music fest starts later, with an impressive lineup of country-rock hitmakers and up-and-comers: The East Texas group Whiskey Myers headlines the show at 9:15 p.m., preceded by San Marcos\u2019 Randy Rogers Band (7:30 p.m.), singer-fiddler Amanda Shires, who grew up in Mineral Wells and Lubbock (6 p.m.) and Oklahoma City\u2019s Jason Scott and the High Heat (4:30 p.m).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Founded in 2019, the event benefits agricultural education and youth empowerment in Texas through the Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>Details<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gates open at 11:30 a.m. for the BBQ event and 4 p.m. for music-only ticket holders on Saturday, April 18, 140 E. Exchange Ave., Fort Worth. $76 and up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prekindle.com\/event\/21959-5th-annual-syndicate-smokedown-and-music-festival-ft-worth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Prekindle.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Prekindle.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Prekindle.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisket and spare ribs are the main attraction of the Syndicate Smokedown &amp; Music Festival \u2014 but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[92373,116,118,117,6572,35487,2967,92374],"class_list":{"0":"post-240931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-amanda-shires","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-fort-worth-stockyards","13":"tag-mineral-wells","14":"tag-music-festival","15":"tag-randy-rogers-band"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240931","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=240931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}