Annual Events Featuring Live Music in the Panhandle Plains Region
See a full list of annual events in Texas featuring live music on the Texas Music Office Event Calendar.
April
Bob Wills Day (Turkey, TX)
For years now, the last Saturday in April has been the day that thousands of fans from across the USA and literally the world over, transform the sleepy West Texas town of Turkey into the center of the Western Swing universe. Turkey, Texas is the hometown of Bob Wills, the innovator of one of the few truly American forms of music known as Western Swing. This unique genre is a fusion of Country, Western, Jazz, Blues and even Gospel music, and unlike most forms, fans don't go to a concert to just listen to a Western Swing band, they go to dance!
June
TEXAS Outdoor Musical
TEXAS Outdoor Musicial, a family friendly chronicle of the Texas Panhandle of the 1800s is performed every Tuesday through Sunday from June through August at the Pioneer Amphitheater in Palo Duro Canyon. Produced by the Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation, the show has been performed annually since 1966.
July
Old Mobeetie Music Festival (Mobeetie, TX)
The Old Mobeetie Music Festival is a family-oriented three-day music jamboree held in July with stage shows as well as "shade-tree pickin" around the camp sites. Camping in the rough is available along with over 100 electrical hookups. The Old Mobeetie Jail Museum is open to visitors during the festival. Performers include local bands as well as musicians from the surrounding states.
Saint’s Roost Celebration (Clarendon, TX)
Since 1877, the first week in July welcomes the Saints Roost Celebration to Clarendon, TX. Activities include a guitar pickers contest, western dances, rodeos, arts and crafts fair, parade, and reunions. Past performers include Leon Rausch, Jody Nix, Red Steagall, Johnny Bush, Frenchy Burke, Moe Bandy and others.
South Plains College Camp Bluegrass (Levelland)
Held in the third week of July, Camp Bluegrass is a large social event, with public concerts, held on the South Plains College campus.
August
XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, TX)
Every August the XIT Rodeo and Reunion features a PRCA rodeo with more than 900 contestants, a parade, a free chicken wing feed, a free pork chop feed, and the World’s Largest Free Bar-B-Que. XIT also includes three nights of live country music. Headliners have included Shooter Jennings, Charlie Robison, Blackhawk, The Buster Bledsoe Band, Tommy Gallagher, Bart Crow Band, and JB and the Moonshine Band.
October
Pampa's Annual Tribute to Woody Guthrie (Pampa, TX)
Each October the city of Pampa honors the life and legacy of Woody Guthrie. The weekend kicks off with a free jam session at the Woody Guthrie Folk Music Center on Friday night and features an open house on Saturday with an evening concert at the MK Brown Civic Center’s Heritage Room.