Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall Grand Opening

Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall Grand Opening

Texas’ pride and joy the Arc Angels – featuring Doyle Bramhall II, Charlie Sexton, and Chris Layton – will make history in Fort Worth, TX, when they perform the first in a series of opening shows at the new Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall on Friday, October 7.

With a devoted and adoring fan base, the Arc Angels, from Austin, TX, consisting of some of the finest musical talents to ever play an instrument, formed in 1992 after the devastating loss of their friend and fellow musician Stevie Ray Vaughan.

A partnership between Chef Tim Love and Live Nation, Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall will offer more than 30 shows as part of the opening lineup that includes a diverse roster of renowned musicians, including Ludacris, Foreigner, Foals, Pat Green, and many others.

Tannahill’s, named for Love’s son, is the new 26,000 square-foot live music hall in the heart of Fort Worth’s Stockyards in the historic Horse and Mule Barns of the Mule Alley redevelopment. The venue, restaurant, and private event space is equipped with extensive kitchen facilities designed to accommodate pre-event dining, full concert concessions and ambitious multiple course meals for up to 500 guests for weddings, family reunions, and social and corporate events. 

Designed by Studio 11, Tannahill’s features state-of-the-art audio and lighting capabilities to accommodate up to 1,000 concertgoers in general assembly. The music hall’s mezzanine level features a dedicated barand includes three, 20-person VIP suite options with catering, a separate lounge area, and a private bar with views of the main stage. The three suites are available for purchase on a per event basis.

“This remarkable talent lineup from such diverse genres of music coming to Tannahill’s is nothing short of spectacular,” says Chef Tim Love. “I’m beyond thrilled to help host these incredible musicians and offer Fort Worth residents the opportunity to discover new artists and for these artists to gain new fans in our community.”

“The Music Hall within Tannahill’s offers music fans across the region a unique opportunity to connect with some of their favorite artists in a spectacular new, intimate space here in the heart of Fort Worth’s historic Stockyards,” said Anthony Nicolaidis, Dallas Market President for Live Nation. “We can’t wait for fans to experience our opening series of shows and see what Chef Love and Live Nation have cooked up for them.”

A full food & beverage program, including a full service restaurant by Chef Love, will open on November 1. The restaurant will feature tavern specialties, show-themed drink specials and an extensive wine list. 

 

TANNAHILL’S TAVERN & MUSIC HALL OPENING SERIES OF SHOWS

Arc Angels with Love & Chaos 

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

Jimmie Vaughan with Sue Foley

Sunday, Oct 9, 2022

Noah Cyrus with gigi

Tuesday, Oct 11, 2022

Teddy Swims with Sherwyn

Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022

Tab Benoit with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band 

Thursday, Oct 13, 2022

Reckless Kelly with Summer Dean 

Friday, Oct 14, 2022

KXT 91.7 Presents Spoon with Glove & Andrew Cashen 

Saturday, Oct 15, 2022

Shovels & Rope with Keegan McInroe

Sunday, Oct 16, 2022

Phillip Phillips with American Authors

Thursday, Oct 20, 2022

Shinyribs

Friday, Oct 21, 2022

Ludacris with Lou Charles 

Saturday, Oct 22, 2022

Foreigner

Sunday, Oct 23, 2022

Gov’t Mule

Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022

Chris Knight with Hayden McBride

Thursday, Oct 27, 2022

Green River Ordinance 

with Sleeperstar

Friday, Oct 28, 2022

Jonathan Tyler & The Texas Gentlemen

Saturday, Oct 29, 2022

Voyage: The Ultimate Journey Tribute Band

Sunday, Oct 30, 2022

Futurebirds with Illiterate Light 

Monday, Oct 31, 2022

Foals with Inner Wave and Gustaf

Friday, Nov 4, 2022 & Saturday, Nov 5, 2022

Marcia Ball with Robert Ellis 

Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022

Cody Canada and The Departed

Friday, Nov 11, 2022

David Ramirez with Pony Bradshaw

Saturday, Nov 12, 2022

The Wrecks with Arlie

Sunday, Nov 13, 2022

KXT 91.7 Presents Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with Devon Gilfillian 

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022

Del Castillo with Vallejo 

Friday, Nov 18, 2022

The Josh Weathers Band with Erick Willis

Saturday, Nov 19, 2022

97.1 The Eagle Presents Giovannie and the Hired Guns with Joey Green

Friday, Nov 25, 2022

Joshua Ray Walker & Vandoliers with Ottoman Turks

Saturday, Nov 26, 2022

Pat Green with Jake Bush 

Sunday, Nov 27, 2022

 

Tickets to the opening series of shows are on sale now at livenation.com. Additional shows will continue to be announced.

More about Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall

A private entrance welcomes bands into a deluxe green room with a selection of food and drinks personalized for the band by Chef Love as well as laundry, showers, and restrooms. Additionally, the landmark mule barn will be equipped with extensive kitchen facilities designed to accommodate pre-event dining, full concert concessions and ambitious multiple course meals for up to 500 guests, for weddings, family reunions, and other social and corporate events.  For more information, please visit tannahills.com or follow @tannahillstavern on Facebook and Instagram

About Chef Tim Love 

Tim Love is the chef and owner of Love Management, Inc. that includes Lonesome Dove Western Bistro (Fort Worth, Austin, Knoxville), Woodshed Smokehouse (Fort Worth & Houston), Love Shack (Fort Worth, DFW Airport, Knoxville, and Houston), Queenie’s Steakhouse (Denton, TX), White Elephant Saloon (Fort Worth), Gemelle (Fort Worth), Atico (Fort Worth), Hotel Otto (Fort Worth) and Paloma Suerte (Fort Worth). In 2020, Love celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Lonesome Dove in the Fort Worth Historic Stockyards. 

Through Love Management, Inc., Love’s influence extends beyond the restaurant industry with a growing entrepreneurial footprint in both the event and entertainment spheres including a strategic alignment with music festivals like Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, as well as holding the title of official chef for Austin City Limits and co-founder of Austin Food & Wine. Love recently announced a partnership with Live Nation, where he will debut Woodshed Smokehouse outlets at select venues, including the Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas, TX. For more information about Tim Love, please visit www.cheftimlove.com and check out @cheftimlove on Instagram.

About Live Nation Entertainment

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, Artist Nation Management, and Live Nation Sponsorship. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.  

For more information, please reach out to love@baltzco.com.

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Tickets are on sale now for Fort Worth Oktoberfest – a three-day Munich-style celebration of German culture. Early online ticket purchases are guaranteed a free 2022 commemorative Oktoberfest stein.

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Spaten will be on tap, along with other Fall and Oktoberfest craft beers. Traditional German food offerings such as bratwursts, pretzels, strudel, schnitzel and German potato pancakes will also be available. Festival goers can enjoy the air-conditioned Spaten Hall as well as multiple outdoor and tented biergartens. Shopping vendors will be on hand with traditional German Lederhosen and Dirndls and a variety of other German accessories.

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TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, AUGUST 5!

Performing Arts Fort Worth, the non-profit owner and operator of Bass Performance Hall, announced today the 2022-2023 lineup for the BNSF Popular Entertainment Series. The lineup features a return of audience favorites, a celebration of peace, a variety of musical showcases and a tribute worthy of an icon.

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Fred’s Texas Café CEO: From Dishrags to Carrying the Moneybags

Article written by John Henry and originally published here by Fort Worth, Inc.

As it concerns life-changing events, taking over Fred’s Texas Café as CEO or even moving from the sacred ground of the original location are down Quincy Wallace’s list of those kinds of big things.

Pondering a future with a multiple sclerosis diagnosis, no feeling on his left side, and an inability to walk were not only life changing but a gut puncher.

It all started like a “hangover that wouldn’t go away,” he recalls.

Image Credit: Crystal Wise

Twelve years after that diagnosis, Quincy is leading a full life — let’s call it his best life — fully mobile and functioning, and, yes, the CEO of Fred’s Texas Café, which he is leading into a new era of a glorious Fred’s history in Fort Worth.

How he scaled to the mountaintop of the Fred’s institution is a story all its own. Fred’s, which has earned prestige for its unconventionality, is among the few places it could have happened. Everybody has a tale about Fred’s.

This one happens to be true.

Since the unfortunate advent of the five-day workweek, people have gotten out of bed in the morning, washed their face, brushed their teeth, and headed out for a job with some kind of ambition. For some, it was to earn money to pay the bills, put a roof over a family’s head, or eat. For others, it was to rule the world. Or try to.

Quincy’s hopes and dreams when he took a job at Fred’s, not quite 25 years ago, was far simpler but not uncommon for a guy who was then in his 20s with a wolfish appetite for a good time.

“I needed beer money,” he says. “I owned a head shop and was broke and needed beer money. And Terry needed a dishwasher on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday nights.”

Meet Quincy Wallace, age 47, a Fort Worth and Fred’s native.

From the head up, you could mistake him for Teddy Roosevelt, with the pronounced mustache out of the lawless Wild West, with a cowboy hat seemingly permanently affixed to his head. A distinguished chortle will turn a mood ring at-ease blue in mere seconds.

And he is a fantastic feller — that’s the way Will Rogers would have said it — who would give the shirt off his back for you. An Oklahoman remembers recently those dark days in 2013 when an F5 tornado again found room to operate in Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 during a destructive, unwelcome visit. Up from Texas drove Quincy and his wife Melynda with tanks of gas for welders to cut up twisted and defeated steel.

Quincy is the new face of Fred’s, taking over the role from Terry Chandler, the famed outlaw chef who is still cooking — and fishing and surfing — but in another part of the world after having decided to retire from Fred’s and the continental U.S. generally.

“He has come a long way from cramming toothpicks in the cigarette machine to relocating the whole restaurant,” Chandler says of the precocious Quincy he knew as a toddler. They both grew up, Quincy eventually joining Chandler, 10 years or so his senior, cooking on chuckwagons and “just being wild asses.”

If you know Fred’s, you know Fred’s, which made 10 o’clock closing time at one point on Friday and Saturday nights because “we liked to go drinking, too. How the hell do you get to a bar if you close at midnight?” (They’re back open on Friday and Saturday until midnight, by the way.)

The criticism of Fred’s in recent years was that it had lost some of its identity. Though Fred’s North and the original Fred’s were the same, they weren’t. Quincy owned the north location and Chandler the original. They were partners, but the two stores were solely independent of one another. The store on Bluebonnet Circle marked a third opening.

They tried to create an umbrella with a kind of corporate-type makeover that caused more issues than it solved.

Quincy is now The Guy, currently up to his elbows in alligators opening the new Fred’s Texas Café, which is set to unfurl the welcome mat to guests later this month. This newest and perhaps most anticipated incarnation of the property at 7101 Camp Bowie West Blvd., best known to West Siders as the site of Steak and Ale, the noted casual dining chain of restaurateur Norman Brinker.

He has hired Fabian Alvarado as head chef, carrying on what Chandler built in the kitchen and ensuring consistency of the brand. This new Fred’s Texas Café won’t be the last, either. Quincy says he has expansion plans.

He and his contractors last month were in the midst of “taking the Steak and Ale out of” the building. The only thing remaining will be the fireplaces.

“They’re everywhere,” he says.

He declined an expert in the field and designed the layout of the new store all himself. It cost him a lot of sleep. “I wouldn’t do that again,” he says.

One room will be a shrine of sorts to the original Fred’s, Texas, on Currie Street. The announcement that Fred’s on Currie was closing was comparable to a spokesman on the moon announcing that the moon was going away.

It was hard for Quincy, too. He grew up at the original Fred’s.

Carter Wallace, his father, owned a cabinetry shop next door and was a regular at Fred’s, as well as its predecessor, Ken’s.

“I predate the Chandler family at the Currie Street shop,” he says. “My mom would let me out of the house on Saturdays with my dad, who would take me to Ken’s. Fred’s original cook, Gracie, she worked at Ken’s, too. She would make me pancakes with a smiley face drawn with syrup. I’ve been in that building my whole life.”

Quincy really did merely plan to make some beer money when he went to work at Fred’s as a dishwasher, but circumstances being as finicky as they are, it turned out far differently. Like the new building on Camp Bowie, Quincy’s need of beer money turned into his dream job.

“My path is wild because … I hate to say this isn’t my dream job because it is. I just never knew it was my dream job,” says Quincy, whose first job when he left Arlington Heights at age 17 was at a construction site where he operated a broom. “It just turned out to be.”

He had always been friends with Chandler, so there was an inherent trust the two had. When a bartender quit or was fired — he doesn’t remember — Quincy, by then in real estate, picked up those shifts. Before long, he was working the bar every night.

Then Chandler wanted Saturdays off. Quincy became the manager on Saturday nights. Eventually he added the title of general manager after Chandler’s parents, JD and Gari, who bought the restaurant in 1978, retired in 2004.

“In real estate, it’s feast or famine,” he says, recalling picking up a shift behind the bar. “It was probably a famine week, and I needed some cash. So, I’m a bartender now. Eventually, I was real estate in the daytime and a bartender at night. That’s cool. I’m putting back some money.”

Quincy gave up alcohol with his MS diagnosis. Changed everything, he says, including his diet. He’s healthier now than he was 12 years ago, he says. He also participates in the annual MS 150 bicycle ride, which raises money to combat the disease as well as awareness.

However, there’s no mistaking the moral of this story: It’s amazing what happens when you need a little beer money.

Article written by John Henry and originally published here by Fort Worth, Inc.

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Tubing is back at Panther Island Pavilion

Rockin’ the River returns to Thursday nights!

Rockin’ the River kicks off next Thursday, July 14, and we have a great season lined up; we’re bringing in some fresh acts as well as favorites from previous years. The event has moved back to Thursday evenings to get your weekend started off right! 

July 14 – The Texas Gentlemen with Bubba Bellin and Ginny Mac 

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Billy Bob’s Texas begins major construction on Tuesday, July 5, 2022 to remove stage-front poles, raise stage-left ceiling and advance the overall audio and visual experience for their guests.

Billy Bob’s Texas opened its doors on April 1, 1981, but the building has not always been known as the World’s Largest Honky Tonk. The history of the building begins in 1910 when it served as an open-air stock pen to house cattle, then a roof was added in 1936 as part of the Texas Centennial project. During WWII it became a hub to build airplane parts to help with war efforts. In the 1950’s and 1960’s the building became Clark’s Department Store which quickly became famous because all the employees stocking product wore roller skates to make their way around the massive facility. Plenty of changes have happened and this historic building has certainly evolved over the years, but this renovation is one for the records.

Billy Bob’s Texas’ team is excited to show its financial commitment to their guests as they move to improve the overall concert experience. Construction in the main showroom began immediately following this morning’s press conference, to remove two stage-front poles and raise stage-left to the level of the rest of the ceiling, for consistency. This along with new digital ticketing improvements will revolutionize the way tickets are bought and will enhance the overall guest and artist experience. In lieu of golden sledgehammers Randy Rogers and Josh Weathers were on scene to help kick off construction by smashing glitter filled guitars against one of the poles that will soon be removed. “Adios Pole” – Randy Rogers. For the next two weekends all shows will be performed on the Honky Tonk Stage kicking off with Billy Bob’s own John Zaskoda and John Shook’s band, Dirty Pool on Friday, July 8 followed by Kaitlin Butts on Saturday, July 9. The following weekend will be Texas Hill featuring Fort Worth’s own Casey James on Friday, July 15 then up-and-comer, Jon Stork closes out the Honky Tonk Stage shows on Saturday, July 16. The first two shows back on the Main Stage will be July 22 & 23 with the Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour featuring Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen. Then closing out the month is Ted Nugent on Friday, July 29 and Fort Worth’s own, Josh Weathers on Saturday, July 30.

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For the full concert calendar, special event and visitor information, please go to www.billybobstexas.com

Location:

Billy Bob’s Texas
Historic Fort Worth Stockyards
2520 Rodeo Plaza
Fort Worth, Texas 76164
(817) 624-7117

ABOUT BILLY BOB’S TEXAS

Located in the heart of the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, Billy Bob’s Texas opened in 1981 and has since become known worldwide as The World’s Largest Honky Tonk. This iconic entertainment venue hosts over half a million guests and 300 live music events annually. Boasting over 120,000 square feet, with a capacity of 5000 funloving folks, Billy Bob’s contains a restaurant, retail store, two dance floors, private event spaces and even real live bull riding inside the Texas-sized venue.

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