Your Guide to Live Music in Texas

NE-YO at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion | August 9, 2026

NE-YO brings the “Nights Like This” tour to The Woodlands on August 9. It’s a co-headlining show with AKON — the two trading sets, trading hits, both artists at the height of what they’ve always known how to do: write the song that lands in your head and stays there. NE-YO started as a songwriter. […]

Derek Hough at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land | August 10, 2026

Derek Hough comes from a family of ballroom dancers, and at 40, he’s spent more than three decades in motion—winning championships, earning Emmys as a choreographer, and building a career that honors craft as much as spectacle. Now he brings ‘Symphony of Dance: Encore,’ a touring production choreographed by NappyTabs, to Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land on August 10.

Poppy at House of Blues Houston | August 13, 2026

Poppy arrives at House of Blues Houston as a genuine metalcore artist with a serious album to support. Empty Hands, her seventh studio album, is her most committed heavy statement yet. The Constantly Nowhere tour brings proper support with Landmvrks and Thousand Below on Thursday, August 13.

Ricardo Montaner at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land | August 14, 2026

Ricardo Montaner brings his farewell El Último Regreso Tour to Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land on Friday, August 14, 2026. The Argentine-Venezuelan Latin pop legend — four decades of romantic balladry, a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a catalog that includes Me Va a Extrañar and Tan Enamorados — plays Sugar Land before the tour closes in November. Doors at 7:00 PM, show at 8:00 PM CT.

Hermanos Espinoza at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land | August 15, 2026

The accordion and the bajo sexto have been the twin engines of South Texas music for a long time, and if you want to understand what Hermanos Espinoza represents in 2026, start not in a studio but in a family restaurant in McAllen, down in the Rio Grande Valley, where two brothers worked long hours […]