Austin Meade brings a Christmas Vacation bill to Brewster Street Ice House

Austin Meade headlines Brewster Street on Friday, December 18, with Dylan Marlowe and Cole Barnhill also on the bill. Tickets run $22.50 to $300.

One week before Christmas, a Texas rock-country songwriter takes over Brewster Street Ice House. Austin Meade headlines on Friday, December 18, with Dylan Marlowe and Cole Barnhill also on the bill. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $22.50 to $300 through Tixr. The event name on the ticket page says what kind of night it is: Marlowe & Meade's Christmas Vacation.

The show was announced October 26. Brewster Street holds about 1,200 people. That's big enough for a real crowd, and small enough that a Friday night show before the holidays could sell out. The $300 top tier suggests there will be some premium packages. Most people will buy the low end, so if you want to go, don't wait for the week of.

Meade doesn't fit neatly in one genre. Rolling Stone said his latest record, *Almost Famous*, was more Texas rock than country. That album came out in November 2025 on Snakefarm Records, the roots-leaning offshoot of hard-rock label Spinefarm. Press for the release, via antiMusic, says it was recorded between a Nashville garage and a spare-bedroom studio back in Texas, and calls it a record about family, ambition, burnout and getting back up. It was his second Snakefarm album after *Black Sheep*, which came out when the label signed him in 2021, according to uDiscover Music.

He has done holiday runs before. Last December he and Treaty Oak Revival co-headlined a Christmas Vacation tour of Texas and Oklahoma dance halls, according to Portal Tela. This year's version puts him with Marlowe, a Georgia songwriter who co-headlined the "Did We Just Become Best Friends? Tour" with Conner Smith in 2025, per MusicRow.

Barnhill has toured with Meade before. He was on Meade's "Happier Alone Forever" tour along with Kody West, as The Concert Chronicles reported, so this pairing has some history.

Brewster Street on a Friday in December, with a bill built for singing along.

Corpus Christi is used to this kind of bill. Brewster Street is downtown's big room for Texas country, and Meade has played it before, including a 2025 show you can see in the photo on his Wikipedia page. The room works for this music: a big floor, a bar along one side, and a crowd that comes for the loud songs and stays for the sad ones.

If you go, get there early enough to catch Barnhill, since 8 p.m. is the start of the night and not Meade's set time. Then come back for Marlowe and the headliner. There's a decent chance the Christmas Vacation theme means some holiday songs end up in the setlists, and Corpus will have a long Friday night.

Sources: Austin Meade Is More Texas Rock Than Country on New Album 'Almost Famous' (Rolling Stone) (rollingstone.com); Austin Meade streams new album Almost Famous (antiMusic) (musicpressbox.antimusic.com); Austin Meade Signs To Snakefarm Records, Announces Album, 'Black Sheep' (uDiscover Music) (udiscovermusic.com); Almost Famous de Austin Meade e turnê com Treaty Oak Revival (Portal Tela) (portaltela.com); Dylan Marlowe, Conner Smith team for new Did We Just Become Best Friends tour (MusicRow) (musicrow.com); Austin Meade announces 'Happier Alone Forever' Tour with Cole Barnhill and Kody West (The Concert Chronicles) (theconcertchronicles.com); Austin Meade (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Marlowe & Meade's Christmas Vacation tickets (Tixr) (tixr.com)