{"id":454827,"date":"2026-10-03T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454827\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:38:07","slug":"dolly-parton-glen-powell-and-more-have-visited-austins-broken-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454827\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton, Glen Powell and more have visited Austin&#8217;s Broken Spoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Dua Lipa (left) and Mike Peacock (right), general manager at\u00a0the Broken Spoke honky tonk bar in Austin, Texas.\u00a0\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dua Lipa (left) and Mike Peacock (right), general manager at\u00a0the Broken Spoke honky tonk bar in Austin, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Broken Spoke<\/p>\n<p>Austin City Limits season is officially here, which means dozens of tourists, celebrities and musicians will be traveling to Texas&#8217; city over the next two weekends. While some may be in town solely for the festival, others may want to get the most out of their trip to Austin with a stop at one of the city&#8217;s most historic honky-tonks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-channels-pixel.ex.co\/events\/0012000001fxZm9AAE?integrationType=DEFAULT&amp;template=design%2Farticle%2Fplatypus_two_column.tpl\" alt=\"\" class=\"x1px y1px vh abs\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>George Strait, Dwight Yoakam,\u00a0Willie Nelson and more\u00a0have all performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/broken-spoke-austin-60th-anniversary-19906520.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the Broken Spoke in Austin<\/a>. However, it&#8217;s not just country music stars that have made appearances at the iconic\u00a0dance hall and bar over the past 60 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>From Dua Lipa to Glen Powell, here are some of the celebs who have visited the Broken Spoke:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, two-stepping at The Broken Spoke in Austin on Thursday, February 12, 2026.\u00a0\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:4 \/ 3\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Jackson&#8217;s daughter, Paris, two-stepping at The Broken Spoke in Austin on Thursday, February 12, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/Courtesy of The Broken Spoke<\/p>\n<p>Paris Jackson<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jackson&#8217;s daughter, Paris, made it a point to learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/paris-jackson-broken-spoke-austin-texas-21358132.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">two-stepping at\u00a0the Broken Spoke earlier this year<\/a>. She visited the\u00a0honky-tonk in mid-February, where she proved that dancing really does run in the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Glen Powell Broken Spoke crop.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Glen Powell Broken Spoke crop.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Glen\u00a0Powell<\/p>\n<p>On a trip back to his hometown last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/glen-powell-broken-spoke-austin-21109617.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Glen\u00a0Powell\u00a0was spotted<\/a>\u00a0at the Broken Spoke in October 2025. The Twisters and more recently Chad Powers\u00a0star showed off his Texas roots two-stepping on the dance floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Micaela Yule (left), server at the Broken Spoke and Dua Lipa (right) pose for a photo together at the honky tonk bar in Austin, Texas.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Micaela Yule (left), server at the Broken Spoke and Dua Lipa (right) pose for a photo together at the honky tonk bar in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Broken Spoke<\/p>\n<p>Dua Lipa<\/p>\n<p>London-born pop star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/dua-lipa-broken-spoke-austin-19820534.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Dua Lipa stopped by the Broken Spoke<\/a> after headlining Austin City Limits music festival in October 2024. The &#8220;New Rules&#8221; singer even posted a TikTok dancing the night away at the honky-tonk.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Clint Eastwood and Broken Spoke co-owner Anetta White.\u00a0\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1 \/ 1\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Clint Eastwood and Broken Spoke co-owner Anetta White.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/The Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Clint Eastwood<\/p>\n<p>Academy Award-winning actor Clint Eastwood visited the Broken Spoke in 1993, while\u00a0while he was filming A Perfect World in the Austin area. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokenspokeaustintx.net\/celebrity-guests?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Broken Spoke website<\/a>, Eastwood danced with a lot of girls and drank Lone Star beer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Country music star Garth Brooks with Broken Spoke owner\/founder James White.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Country music star Garth Brooks with Broken Spoke owner\/founder James White.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/The Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Garth Brooks<\/p>\n<p>Country music star Garth Brooks surprised fans with a concert at the Broken Spoke in March 2017. He played all of his biggest hits like &#8220;The Dance,&#8221; &#8220;Rodeo,&#8221; &#8220;Friends in Low Places&#8221; and classics from George Jones, Merle Haggard and George Strait, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokenspokeaustintx.net\/celebrity-guests?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">bar&#8217;s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Dolly Parton with Broken Spoke owner\/founder James White in 1987.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1 \/ 1\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dolly Parton with Broken Spoke owner\/founder James White in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/The Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Dolly Parton<\/p>\n<p>Late country legend Dolly Parton filmed a TV movie called\u00a0Wild Texas Nights at the Broken Spoke in 1987, according to the bar&#8217;s website. Broken Spoke owner and founder James White even had a speaking role in the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Brooks and Dunn poses for a photo with Broken Spoke owner\/founder James White.\u00a0\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 4\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brooks and Dunn poses for a photo with Broken Spoke owner\/founder James White.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/The Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Brooks &amp;\u00a0Dunn<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, country music duo Brooks &amp; Dunn played at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, but they wanted to play &#8220;in a real\u00a0honky-tonk&#8221; so afterward they headed over to the Broken Spoke, the bar said in a photo caption of the pair on its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Broken Spoke co-owner Terri White (left), Robert Duvall (middle) and Broken Spoke founder James White at the\u00a0honk-tonk in 2014.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1 \/ 1\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Broken Spoke co-owner Terri White (left), Robert Duvall (middle) and Broken Spoke founder James White at the\u00a0honk-tonk in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/The Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Robert Duvall<\/p>\n<p>Actor Robert Duvall picked the Broken Spoke as a backdrop to his photo shoot with Cowboys &amp; Indians Magazine in 2014. He also had movie wrap parties for his movies Wild Horses and\u00a0Secondhand Lies\u00a0at the &#8220;last true\u00a0Texas\u00a0honky-tonk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"William Dafoe (middle) poses for a photo with Broken Spoke co-owner Ginny-White Peacock (right).\u00a0\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>William Dafoe (middle) poses for a photo with Broken Spoke co-owner Ginny-White Peacock (right).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>William Dafoe<\/p>\n<p>Spiderman star Willem Dafoe went to the Broken Spoke to\u00a0enjoy some good country music in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Fergie (middle)\u00a0at the Broken Spoke in Austin, Texas.\u00a0\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fergie (middle)\u00a0at the Broken Spoke in Austin, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/The Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Fergie\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Popstar and former Black Eyed Peas member, Fergie, came out to the Broken Spoke with her then-husband Josh Duhamel during SXSW 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Broken Spoke owner James White and director Quentin Tarantino at the honk-tonk.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:4 \/ 3\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Broken Spoke owner James White and director Quentin Tarantino at the honk-tonk.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/The Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Quentin\u00a0Tarantino<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino held a wrap party for his movie, Death Proof, in 2007 at the Broken Spoke. Actress Rosario Dawson and Austin-based director Robert Rodriguez were also in attendance, according to the bar&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>President George\u00a0W. Bush<\/p>\n<p>Former President\u00a0George W. Bush held a celebration party at the Broken Spoke after winning his election for Texas Governor in 1994. He played shuffleboard in the restaurant with musician TJ McFarland and posed for photos with fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Actor John\u00a0C. Reilley at the Broken Spoke in Austin, Texas in 2022.\" loading=\"lazy\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Actor John\u00a0C. Reilley at the Broken Spoke in Austin, Texas in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny White-Peacock\/The Broken Spoke\/Ginny White-Peacock<\/p>\n<p>John\u00a0C. Reilley<\/p>\n<p>Actor John C. Reilly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokenspokeaustintx.net\/celebrity-guests?utm_source=chatgpt.com&amp;lightbox=dataItem-l1o4sp62\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">stopped by the Broken Spoke in 2022<\/a>. The Stepbrothers star met and took a photo with the bar&#8217;s owner James White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa (left) and Mike Peacock (right), general manager at\u00a0the Broken Spoke honky tonk bar in Austin, Texas.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,2107,820],"class_list":["post-454827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysaaustin","tag-mysaentertainment","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454827","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=454827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}