BY CARY DARLING
It has been a long time coming but the newest music/entertainment venue in North Texas, the Irving Music Factory in Las Colinas, finally has an opening date: Sept. 1 with a set from comedian Dave Chappelle.
He will be followed by an eclectic list of performers including Brad Paisley (Sept. 2), Jeff & Larry’s Backyard BBQ Festival with Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Eddie Money, and the Marshall Tucker Band (Sept. 3), The Goo Goo Dolls and Phillip Phillips (Sept. 6), Sin Bandera (Sept. 23), Young the Giant with Cold War Kids and Joywave (Sept. 29), Matchbox Twenty and Counting Crows (Oct. 1), Scorpions and Megadeth (Oct. 12), 2Cellos (Nov. 4), and Trevor Noah (Nov. 11).
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. More concert announcements will be made April 3.
Booked by LiveNation, the 250,000-square-foot Irving Music Factory can be both an indoor and outdoor venue that can be reconfigured for 2500, 4000, and 8000-capacity events. The concert hall is part of a larger entertainment complex that will also house an Alamo Drafthouse movie theater as well as such restaurants as Gloria’s Latin Cuisine, Kabuki, Yard House, and Thirsty Lion.
