Dylan Marlowe and Austin Meade bring a Christmas show to the Longhorn Ballroom on Dec. 13

The Georgia country singer headlines the restored Cedars landmark on Sunday, Dec. 13, with Austin Meade in support. It's his first Dallas show since August 2024.

The last time Dylan Marlowe played Dallas, it was late August at Dos Equis Pavilion, the kind of hot night when the lawn never really cools down. His next visit is in mid-December, in one of the most storied rooms in Texas, and it's billed as a Christmas party.

Dylan Marlowe plays the Longhorn Ballroom on Sunday, Dec. 13, with Austin Meade in support. Doors are at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are through AXS, where the night is listed as Marlowe and Meade's Christmas Vacation. The ballroom holds about 2,550.

It's Marlowe's first Dallas show since Aug. 30, 2024, and a lot has happened since. That fall he released his debut album, *Mid-Twenties Crisis*, which included a collaboration with Riley Green. In 2025 he headlined his own Mid-Twenties Crisis tour, then went out with Conner Smith on the co-headlining "Did We Just Become Best Friends?" tour, which started in Columbia, South Carolina, that April. In November 2025 he released "Barefoot and Pregnant," a song that followed the news that he and his wife were expecting twins. This year Sony Music Nashville put out a new version of "Boys Back Home," his song with Dylan Scott, with a verse from Yung Gravy. He also has a new single, "No Coincidence."

Marlowe grew up in Statesboro, Georgia, and spent his early touring years as an opener, including most of HARDY and Lainey Wilson's fall 2023 run. Two years after his last Dallas date, this time the bill is under his name.

Then there's the room. The Longhorn Ballroom in the Cedars was built in 1950 for Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Jack Ruby ran it briefly before Dewey Groom made it one of the best-known music venues in Texas. Merle Haggard, Isaac Hayes and the Red Hot Chili Peppers all played there, and in 1978 the Sex Pistols played it on their only U.S. tour. After a foreclosure and a near-total gutting, Edwin Cabaniss, who runs the Kessler Theater, led its restoration. The ballroom reopened in March 2023 with Asleep at the Wheel. The 1950s motel next door has since been turned into creative and studio space.

The Longhorn was built for Western swing dancing, and nearly 75 years later its stage is still booked for country nights like this one. A December show with a holiday theme is the kind of night the ballroom was made for.

Austin Meade opens, and Texas crowds will know him. Pairing him with a Georgia headliner puts a Texas act and a Southeast act on the same stage for the holidays.

Plan for a Sunday night: the 7:30 start means you'll probably be home at a reasonable hour before Monday. If you've never been inside the restored building, get there at doors and look around.

He was last here in August, and this time he's back in December, in a 1950 ballroom, to play country music for the holidays.

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