Sometime in late 1983, Lionel Richie’s Can’t Slow Down had been in the Billboard Top 10 for what felt like the entirety of human experience — it would spend 59 consecutive weeks there before it was done — and if you were in Dallas that year, you heard “All Night Long (All Night)” through someone else’s car window before you heard it on the radio. It was that kind of album: the kind that got inside a city’s nervous system and stayed.
That Richie — the Tuskegee-born Commodores alumnus who’d worked out how to write pop songs that landed like soul records — arrives at American Airlines Center on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, co-headlining with Earth, Wind & Fire. Doors open at 6:00 PM; show at 7:30 PM. The tour carries the name Sing a Song All Night Long, which is a thesis statement folded into a title: EWF’s 1976 hit “Sing a Song” married to Richie’s 1983 anthem, a promise of what the night will cover.
About Lionel Richie
Richie came up through the Commodores — co-lead singer, principal songwriter, the man behind “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Brick House,” and “Sail On” — before going solo in 1982. Can’t Slow Down (1983) won the Grammy for Album of the Year, has been certified Diamond in the U.S., and has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. His four Grammy Awards also include Song of the Year for “We Are the World.” He holds an Academy Award for “Say You, Say Me,” joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, and published a memoir, Truly, in September 2025 — No. 3 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list.
About Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire have been in motion since Maurice White organized the group in Chicago in 1969. White died in 2016, but original bassist Verdine White, still on stage at 74, anchors a lineup that includes Philip Bailey and Ralph Johnson. Fifty-seven years in, the band holds six Grammy Awards plus the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors (2019), and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A Questlove-directed documentary — Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World) — opened the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival on June 3, followed by a live set with The Roots at Beacon Theatre in New York. This tour arrives with that momentum still building.
This is the second co-headlining North American tour the two acts have mounted within three years — a pairing that has proven, on the road, to be more than the sum of its catalog.
The Texas Run
The Dallas date is the middle stop of a three-city Texas stretch: San Antonio (Frost Bank Center, July 28) the night before, Austin (Moody Center, August 14) closing the American leg of the tour. Twenty-six cities total, running June 24 through August 14. For DFW, Wednesday the 29th is your date.
Venue
American Airlines Center is located at 2500 Victory Avenue, Dallas, TX 75219. The arena holds 20,000. No professional photography equipment or detachable lenses are permitted; point-and-shoot cameras are allowed. For suite and premium seating inquiries, contact suites@americanairlinescenter.com or (214) 221-8326.
Tickets
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. VIP packages — including premium seating, pre-show lounge access with food and drinks, two drink tickets, a limited-edition tour poster, and exclusive merchandise — are available through vipnation.com.