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JAMBALOO Festival Promises to Keep Dallas' Winter of Musical Content Jamming

The Mullen & Mullen Music Project and Spune Productions will bring a weeklong party to North Texas.
Image: Quaker City Night Hawks are among the artists who will perform at the inaugural JAMBALOO festival.
Quaker City Night Hawks are among the artists who will perform at the inaugural JAMBALOO festival. Jacob Blickenstaff

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It's a great time to be a music fan in Dallas. On the heels of the superb Deep Ellum Block Party and with nights like Tripping Daisy's New Year's show on the horizon, the local scene is thriving. Spune Productions and The Mullen & Mullen Music Project just gave us something else to look forward to.

The two production companies are collaborating for "JAMBALOO," a weeklong music festival happening at four local venues Feb. 2–8, 2025. The collaborators announced the dates in October, along with a few of the headlining acts, namely Americana multi-instrumentalist MJ Lenderman and country rock powerhouse Quaker City Night Hawks.

The festivities begin on Saturday, Feb. 1, with the inaugural JAMBALOO Symposium. KXT 91.7 program director Benji McPhail will host a panel of industry experts, including Death Row Records co-founder The D.O.C., Texas Music Office director Chip Adams and four-time Grammy-winning producer Tre Nagella. The symposium, to be livestreamed and recorded, will be held at Tulips in Fort Worth.

The festival released the full festival lineup along with a day-by-day venue schedule. Here's the rundown.

Club Dada

2720 Elm St.
  • 2/2 - Rosegarden Funeral Party w/Night Drive, NITE, Forrest Isn't Dead
  • 2/2 - Manwolves + Collin Selman w/Sam Cormier, Gracen Wynn
  • 2/4 - Cure for Paranoia w/We Them Grays, Coach Tev, Yo Cisco Kidd
  • 2/5 - Pretty Boy Aaron w/PHANTASMA, Zeke Forever, Zebra Troop
  • 2/6 - Slow Joy w/Dezorah, Greybloom
  • 2/7 - MICHELLE w/Ayoni
  • 2/8 - Lomelda w/ Greg Mendez, Skirts, Proun
  • 2/8 - Christian Lee Hutson w/Allegra Krieger, Jacob Metcalf

Ferris Wheelers

1950 Market Center Blvd.
  • 2/2 - The Black Angels w/DAIISTAR, Jake Paleschic
  • 2/7 - Luna Luna
  • 2/8 - The Texas Gentlemen w/Quaker City Night Hawks, Matthew Logan Vasquez, J. Isaiah Evans & the Boss Tweed

Tulips

112 St. Louis Ave. Fort Worth
  • 2/1 - RJD2 & Mystery Skulls 2/2 - Mark Lettieri w/Michael Lee, The Selfless Lovers, Cameron Smith + Jakob Robertson
  • 2/4 - The Unlikely Candidates w/Ella Red, Swimming with Bears
  • 2/5 - Lou Charle$
  • 2/6 - Twain + Esther Rose, w/Robert Ellis, Matthew McNeal, Brody Price
  • 2/7 - MJ Lenderman + Wild Pink w/Darling Farm
  • 2/8 - Kolton Moore & the Clever Few w/Levi Ray

Andy's

122 N. Locust St., Denton
  • 2/3 - Gene Ross w/Softly, Itiswhatitis
  • 2/4 - Good Looks w/David Forsyth, Mayhill, Peyton Aston
  • 2/5 - nervous w/Drunk Uncle, Upsetting, atcitdio

It's a stacked week of music, but we're particularly eyeing the rocking cowboy lineup on Saturday, Feb. 8, at Ferris Wheelers, and Club Dada's indie rock night with Slow Joy, Dezorah and Greybloom on Thursday, Feb. 6.

You can RSVP to specific shows via the JAMBALOO website.