{"id":54588,"date":"2025-11-18T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54588\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:42:13","slug":"george-strait-adds-second-night-to-epic-texas-concert-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54588\/","title":{"rendered":"George Strait adds second night to epic Texas concert for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/george-strait-tour-21143177.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">&#8220;King of Country&#8221;<\/a> sparked an online frenzy after announcing a rare opportunity for Texas fans to see him back on stage in 2026. The pressure to snag tickets was on, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/george-strait-super-bowl-bad-bunny-21098594.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">George Strait<\/a> said he&#8217;d be performing under the Texas sky for one night only. That all changed on Monday, November 17.<\/p>\n<p>Following &#8220;overwhelming demand&#8221; for his April 25, 2026 concert at Texas Tech&#8217;s Jones AT&amp;T Stadium, the Grammy Award-winning artist will now spend two nights in West Texas.\u00a0Strait&#8217;s show\u00a0will now start one day early as he&#8217;s added a second concert at Texas Tech&#8217;s football stadium on\u00a0April 24, 2026,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GeorgeStrait\/status\/1990404756687159297?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to a post on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He will be joined by 28-year-old Washington native\u00a0Zach Top, singer of &#8220;I Never Lie&#8221; and &#8220;Bad Luck.&#8221; Another artist set for an appearance that evening is Dylan Gossett, who hails from Austin and is fresh off the release of a new album called Westward.<\/p>\n<p>Presale tickets for both shows become available at 10 a.m. Monday. Music lovers can sign up now for early access to tickets at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/georgestrait.com\/shows\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/georgestrait.com\/shows.<\/a>\u00a0Public tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 21, though there&#8217;s no telling how many seats will be available by then.<\/p>\n<p>The mini-tour marks the &#8220;Check Yes or No&#8221; singer&#8217;s return to the Lone Star State after a slew of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgestrait.com\/news\/posts\/2025\/february\/george-strait-and-chris-stapleton-extend-run-of-stadium-shows-for-2025\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">national gigs<\/a> with Parker McCollum, Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town. He initially teased his coming home with a social media post, which featured a cartoon of a Texas highway with a sign saying &#8220;next exit 425 miles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After his April 24 show, Strait will be back the next night to win over the Lubbock crowd. The April 25 show features the iconic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/miranda-lambert-guadalupe-river-19588869.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Miranda Lambert<\/a> and rising star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/hudson-westbrook-merch-buc-ees-21162126.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Hudson Westbrook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, the &#8220;King of Country&#8221; sparked an online frenzy after announcing a rare opportunity for Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,2107,820,30030],"class_list":{"0":"post-54588","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","11":"tag-mysaentertainment","12":"tag-mysastaff","13":"tag-mysatx"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588","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=54588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}