Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan to Headline Outlaw Music Festival in Dallas

This year's festival is at Dos Equis Pavillion on July 5 and tickets go on sale soon.

February 4, 2025

Willie Nelson is set to headline the 10th Outlaw Music Festival. Mike Brooks

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The Outlaw Music Festival announced the lineup for a 2025 tour in celebration of its 10-year anniversary. Led each year by Willie Nelson, the festival is a sort of traveling country/folk carnival, touring cities with a seemingly impossible lineup of legendary stars including Nelson, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant or Van Morrison in years past, along with contemporaries like Luke Combs or Eric Church.

Those hall-of-fame lineups are matched with an eclectic roster of vendors ranging from Western apparel to vinyl records.

For the Dallas stop at Dos Equis Pavilion on July 5, Nelson and Dylan will return as the evening’s closers, with a rotating cast of A-list openers, including the Avett Brothers, The Mavericks and Tami Nielson.

We don’t want to sound ungrateful, but other nights on the tour feature the likes of Wilco, Billy Strings, Turnpike Troubadours, Sheryl Crow and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. The Lone Star State couldn’t have brought in a more star-studded cast?

This year’s tour has 35 stops, kicking off on May 13 in Phoenix, Arizona, and ending on Sept. 19 in Troy, Wisconsin. The festival is notably hitting a few smaller towns that tend to not offer such high-profile acts, including Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and Ridgedale, Missouri. Bob Dylan made headlines a few weeks back for announcing March 2025 tour dates in similarly sized towns, including Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tickets to the Outlaw Music Festival go on sale on Feb. 7, with presale codes available by signing up for the Outlaw Insider newsletter.

Simon Pruitt is a staff writer for the Dallas Observer. He's been writing professionally since he was 16, covering art, sports and all the peculiar things he finds along the way.

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