All eyes are on Lubbock right now.<\/p>\n
The 10-1 Texas Tech Red Raiders appear to be headed to the College Football Playoffs. And thousands of country music fans are making plans to head to Jones AT&T Stadium, the Red Raiders’ home, to see George Strait in April.<\/p>\n
A little more than a week since announcing his first Texas show <\/a>of 2026, nicknamed Strait to Texas Tech, the country superstar has added a second date because of \u201coverwhelming demand,\u201d according to a post today <\/a>on Strait\u2019s social media sites. The new concert date is April 24, the day before the original concert date.<\/p>\n Presales are underway for both concerts right now at texastech.com,<\/a> with seats ranging from about $100 to more than $3,700. Sign up for a password for the presale here. <\/a>Tickets go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n The site selling tickets currently lists the Saturday concert as \u201calmost gone\u201d and the newly announced show as \u201cgoing fast.\u201d<\/p>\n Miranda Lambert and Hudson Westbrook previously were announced as opening acts for the April 25 concert. On April 24, the openers will be Zach Top, a country singer from the Seattle area, and young Austin singer Dylan Gossett.\u00a0<\/p>\n Aside from a small benefit concert in July, which raised more than $6 million for Hill Country flood relief, and a military gala, Strait’s last big Texas concert was at Kyle Field in College Station in June 2024.<\/p>\n That concert drew 110,905 fans, which broke a longstanding record for ticketed attendance at a single concert in the United States. (The record fell a little more than a year later to singer-songwriter Zach Bryan). The Lubbock stadium has a capacity of about 60,000 for football games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All eyes are on Lubbock right now. The 10-1 Texas Tech Red Raiders appear to be headed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-54494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54494","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=54494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}