| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Cowtown OpryPresented by Cowtown Opry at Fort Worth Stockyards July 4, 2010 - Ongoing Every Sunday afternoon at 2:00pm, Cowtown Opry members perform a free western music exhibition on the steps of the Livestock Exchange building. Each week there is a different theme and on the 5th Sunday of a month there is Western Gospel music.
Performance Location: On the steps of the historic Livestock Exchange Building in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District. | Cowtown Opry | 07/04/10- Ongoing | Fort Worth |
Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano CompetitionPresented by Van Cliburn Foundation at Bass Performance Hall May 24-June 9, 2013 Since its inception in 1962, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition has been committed to showcasing both the extraordinary talent of its competitors in recital performance as well as their ability to successfully and beautifully collaborate with other musicians. During the Semifinal Round, each pianist performs a quintet with an outstanding chamber ensemble's tradition established by Mr. Van Cliburn, who provides a special award for Best Performance of Chamber Music. The Fourteenth... | Van Cliburn Foundation | 05/24/13- 06/09/13 | Fort Worth |
Carmina BuranaPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall May 17-May 19, 2013 The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra closes its centennial season with a piece whose popularity extends well beyond the symphony stage. Everyone knows the theme O Fortuna, used in countless movie trailers and TV commercials, but the entire work is a delight, with its intense rhythmic excitement, its wacky instrumentation, and earthy themes about love and life?there's even a drinking song! This will be a joyous occasion providing electrifying entertainment on a grand scale. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 05/17/13- 05/19/13 | Fort Worth |
Natalie MerchantsPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall April 12-April 14, 2013 Known for her warm and distinctive vocals in solo hits and as the lead singer for pop group 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant makes her Fort Worth Symphony debut in a concert of old favorites and newer songs from her highly acclaimed symphonic album, Leave Your Sleep. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 04/12/13- 04/14/13 | Fort Worth |
| Lila Downs | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 04/10/13 | Fort Worth |
Rach 3Presented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall April 5-April 7, 2013 Daniil Trifonov is the most recent winner of Moscow's Tchaikovsky competition, the contest that launched Van Cliburn into stardom. He'll take on the devilishly difficult Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3. In the face of Stalin's brutal artistic censorship, Shostakovich filled his Fifth Symphony with lyricism and Russian nationalism, but was he being subversive? You'll enjoy the sweeping melodies either way. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 04/05/13- 04/07/13 | Fort Worth |
Springtime in ParisPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall March 22-March 24, 2013 Bass Performance Hall is transformed into the City of Lights in this concert celebrating our love affair with Paris. Innovative young pops conductor Sarah Hicks presents a salute to French music and performers, including singers Edith Piaf and Josephine Baker, composers Django Reinhardt and Michel Legrand The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, singer-songwriters Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg, and more. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 03/22/13- 03/24/13 | Fort Worth |
Late Nite Catechism Las Vegas: Sister Rolls The Dice at Bass Performance Hall March 20-March 24, 2013 This is the latest class in the sinfully funny Catechism series. The convent needs a new roof, so the order has decided that Sister (with her extensive gambling experience running the Church Bingo for the last 25 years) will organize a Las Vegas night! Sister will tackle topics ranging from Magicians and Show Girls to live animal acts and the dangers of drive-through marriage chapels. Don't forget: "What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas," but God sees everything! | | 03/20/13- 03/24/13 | Fort Worth |
Sibelius' Majestic SecondPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall March 15-March 17, 2013 You wonder whether this was what it was like to hear a Perlman or a Stern in their early years, writes The Washington Post of young violinist Stefan Jackiw, who'll perform Bruch's Scottish Fantasy. The majesty of Sibelius' most popular symphony provides a big finish. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 03/15/13- 03/17/13 | Fort Worth |
Mozart and Enigma VariationsPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall February 22-February 24, 2013 The sweet, haunting sound of the oboe gets the spotlight as their principal oboist plays Mozart. Enigma Variations, Elgar's masterpiece, paints vivid musical portraits of the composer's closest friends, with an intriguing mystery at the heart of it all. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 02/22/13- 02/24/13 | Fort Worth |
The Black WatchPresented by Performing Arts Fort Worth at Bass Performance Hall February 19, 2013 The Pipes and Drums of the Black Watch 3rd Battalion, The Royal Regiments of Scotland and the Band of the Scots Guards come together for an evening of inspirational and patriotic music. | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 02/19/13 | Fort Worth |
The Biscuit Brothers Live!Presented by Performing Arts Fort Worth at Bass Performance Hall February 10, 2013 This show features wall-to-wall music in a high energy, audience participation concert event that stars the cast of the Emmy Award winning TV show and their band. The Biscuit Brothers use a creative mix of upbeat musical styles to get their audiences clapping, dancing and singing along. | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 02/10/13 | Fort Worth |
The Splendor Of The Strads: A Gala EventPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall February 9, 2013 In ther 100th anniversary season, the Fort Worth Symphony honors our own artists and the generosity of our community in a glittering night highlighting the two priceless Stradivari violins on loan to the orchestra from local donors. The program is a violin showcase, with Bach's Concerto for Two Violins and two stunners by Sarasate. They will end the celebration with Beethoven's immortal Fifth Symphony. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 02/09/13 | Fort Worth |
Nobu Plays TchaikovskyPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall February 1-February 3, 2013 Nobuyuki Tsujii's gold-medal win at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition inspired what Time Magazine called Nobu fever on an international scale. Now he returns to Fort Worth to play one of the most beloved piano concertos of all. We'll close with another powerhouse, Schubert's Great, inspired by the lovely Austrian landscape. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 02/01/13- 02/03/13 | Fort Worth |
Oz with OrchestraPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall January 25-January 27, 2013 A magical multimedia production featuring one of the most beloved films of all time, The Wizard of Oz. Experience the brilliantly restored film on the big screen, with Judy Garland's original 1939 studio recordings backed by lush, live orchestration. It's a treat for all ages. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 01/25/13- 01/27/13 | Fort Worth |
Wagner and StraussPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall January 11-January 13, 2013 The former principal cellist of the FWSO returns for Don Quixote, which depicts episodes from the life of Cervantes' knight-errant. Then, they celebrate Wagner's 200th birthday with three overtures that offer a close look at this great opera composer's powerful creations for orchestra. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 01/11/13- 01/13/13 | Fort Worth |
Bernadette PetersPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall January 5, 2013 One of Broadway's brightest stars, Bernadette Peters returns to the Fort Worth Symphony stage for one night only to dazzle audiences with songs from her incredible career on stage and screen. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 01/05/13 | Fort Worth |
New Years's Eve: A Night In VeinnaPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall December 31, 2012 It's an elegant celebration of New Year's Eve and of the Fort Worth Symphony's history as we welcome back John Giordano, the FWSO's music director from 1972 to 2000. He leads a night of Strauss waltzes and other Viennese classics, as well as favorite soprano arias featuring the incandescent Ava Pine, a Fort Worth audience favorite. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 12/31/12 | Fort Worth |
| Robert Earl Keen | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 12/29/12 | Fort Worth |
| A 50s and 60s Rock and Roll Christmas | DFW AllStars | 12/01/12- 12/22/12 | Fort Worth |
| Dave Koz and Friends Christmas 2012 | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 12/12/12 | Fort Worth |
| Michael Martin Murphey's Cowboy Christmas | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 12/10/12 | Fort Worth |
MessiahPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall December 3, 2012 Rejoice greatly at the return of this Fort Worth holiday tradition, the area's finest Messiah collaboration. Thrill to exultant choruses, soaring trumpets and pounding timpani as the Southwestern Seminary Master Chorale and guest soloists join the orchestra for Handel's epic masterpiece. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 12/03/12 | Fort Worth |
The Midtown MenPresented by Performing Arts Fort Worth at Bass Performance Hall December 1, 2012 After making their Fort Worth debut last season, The Midtown Men return to Bass Performance Hall for two performances! They took Broadway by storm in one of the biggest hits of all-time! Now they're together again, taking their sensational sound on the road. Don't miss this one-of-a-kind concert experience celebrating the music of the 1960's with classic songs by the Beatles, Beach Boys, Motown, The Four Seasons and more! | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 12/01/12 | Fort Worth |
| Home For The Holidays | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 11/24/12- 11/25/12 | Fort Worth |
ScheherazadePresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall November 16-November 18, 2012 Alban Gerhardt, who last appeared with the FWSO at Carnegie Hall in 2008, brings to life Schumann's lyrical work for cello and orchestra. Then we'll enter the exotic, perfumed world of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, based on the tales in The Thousand and One Nights. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 11/16/12- 11/18/12 | Fort Worth |
| Flashback | DFW AllStars | 11/10/12 | Fort Worth |
Cirque MusicaPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall November 2-November 4, 2012 Cirque Musica blends the thrilling talents of the best circus performers with exhilarating symphonic music, including John Williams, the Beatles, and excerpts from Holst's The Planets and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Soaring aerialists, acrobats and strongmen - veterans of Cirque du Soleil and Ringling Bros. - will dazzle with elegance, grace and power. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 11/02/12- 11/04/12 | Fort Worth |
Beethoven Violin ConcertoPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall October 26-October 28, 2012 The luminous Karen Gomyo makes her Fort Worth Symphony debut in Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, the composer's best-loved work, is a virtuoso showcase for every section of the orchestra. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 10/26/12- 10/28/12 | Fort Worth |
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Plays Thick As A Brick 1 and 2Presented by Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie October 26, 2012 Prog Rock? Prog Rock? In 2012? Are you serious? Well, yes actually although lets use the original term progressive rock. Cast aside all prejudices as Jethro Tulls singer - flautist - composer Ian Anderson explains what led him to revisit the genre some 40 years after the ground-breaking Tull album Thick As A Brick. | Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie | 10/26/12 | Grand Prairie |
Music City Hit-MakersPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall October 12-October 14, 2012 The Grammy-winning creators of today's biggest country hits take the spotlight in an exciting songwriter's showcase. Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson, hit-makers for Nashville's megastars, perform a parade of No. 1 songs, including Jesus, Take the Wheel recorded by Carrie Underwood, Out Last Night Kenny Chesney, It's America Rodney Atkins, Blessed Martina McBride and many more. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 10/12/12- 10/14/12 | Fort Worth |
Ray Price and Don Williams at Bass Performance Hall October 11, 2012 Two of country music's most enduring and legendary singers come together for an evening of timeless hits. | | 10/11/12 | Fort Worth |
Katie HerzigPresented by Performing Arts Fort Worth at Bass Performance Hall October 7, 2012 Katie Herzig has been compared to Neko Case, KT Tunstall and other female singer-songwriters whose music teeters between acoustic and electronic, traditional and experimental.
Her combination of sounds and styles has landed her music on several TV shows and film soundtracks, including One Tree Hill, Grey's Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars and Going the Distance. | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 10/07/12 | Fort Worth |
Pictures at an ExhibitionPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall October 5-October 7, 2012 His recording of Prokofiev's piano concertos is some of the most thrilling virtuosity on record, says Gramophone magazine: The brilliant Horacio Gutierrez joins them to play the composer's Third. Then comes Mussorgsky's ever-popular Pictures at an Exhibition, with Ravel's colorful orchestration giving life to the sights and sounds of Kiev. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 10/05/12- 10/07/12 | Fort Worth |
| The Nashville Hall of Fame Concert | DFW AllStars | 10/06/12 | Fort Worth |
The Australian Pink Floyd ShowPresented by Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie October 4, 2012 The Australian Pink Floyd Show was formed in Adelaide, South Australia in 1988, but weren't known as this until relocating to the UK. They were the first Pink Floyd tribute band to tour in the UK back in 1993, starting off with the first International Pink Floyd fan convention at Wembley convention centre. . | Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie | 10/04/12 | Grand Prairie |
Les MiserablesPresented by Performing Arts Fort Worth at Bass Performance Hall September 26-September 30, 2012 Cameron Mackintosh presents a brand new 25th anniversary production of Boublil and Schonberg's legendary musical, Les Miserables, with glorious new staging and dazzlingly reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. This new production has been acclaimed by critics, fans and new audiences and is breaking box office records wherever it goes. | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 09/26/12- 09/30/12 | Fort Worth |
Bonnie RaittPresented by Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie September 29, 2012 With the release of her nineteenth album, Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt is starting anew. The album marks her return to studio recording after seven years; it's coming out as the launch of her own label, Redwing Records; and it delivers some of the most surprising and rewarding music of her remarkable career, thanks in part to some experimental sessions with celebrated producer Joe Henry. | Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie | 09/29/12 | Grand Prairie |
| Day in the District 2012 | Day in the District Collaboration | 09/22/12 | Fort Worth |
| Il Volo | Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie | 09/21/12 | Grand Prairie |
| Third Thursday Jazz - Robin Eubanks Quintet | Fort Worth Library | 09/20/12 | Fort Worth |
Mahler's FifthPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall September 14-September 16, 2012 The centennial season opens in grand style with Mahler's monumental Fifth Symphony. This tour de force masses huge orchestral resources for a work that's by turns turbulent and sublime. Higdon's acclaimed blue cathedral is a colorful tone poem filled with celestial sounds. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 09/14/12- 09/16/12 | Fort Worth |
| Fort Worth Opera Ball | Fort Worth Opera | 09/15/12 | Fort Worth |
JackopiercePresented by Performing Arts Fort Worth at Bass Performance Hall September 14, 2012 Jackopierce is one of the most popular pop-rock bands from the North Texas area. The two-man group, made up of Jack O'Neill and Cary Pierce, spent the late '80s and early '90s touring the country, releasing records for labels big and small and helping spurn interest in the North Texas music scene. | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 09/14/12 | Fort Worth |
| Tony Bennett In Concert | Performing Arts Fort Worth | 09/10/12 | Fort Worth |
The 1950s: The Golden Age Of Black and WhitePresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall September 7-September 9, 2012 Step back in time to the Fabulous Fifties, as we transport you to a broadcast studio during the Golden Age of Television. Conductor and arranger Jack Everly leads a nostalgic revue of TV theme songs I Love Lucy, commercials, popular hits Unchained Melody, Mambo Italiano, and even a nod to Elvis. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 09/07/12- 09/09/12 | Fort Worth |
| Unchained Melody | DFW AllStars | 09/08/12 | Fort Worth |
Tedeschi Trucks Band and B.B. KingPresented by Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie August 28, 2012 His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth. Yet B.B. King continues to wear his crown well. At age 76, he is still light on his feet, singing and playing the blues with relentless passion. Time has no apparent effect on B.B., other than to make him more popular, more cherished, more relevant than ever. Don't look for him in some kind of semi-retirement; look for him out on the road, playing for people, popping up in a myriad of T.V. commercials, or laying... | Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie | 08/28/12 | Grand Prairie |
Jose Feghali, PianoPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall August 26, 2012 Building on the triumph of last season's celebration of Gershwin, Bernstein and Copland, they take a broader and deeper look at great American compositions for orchestra. Some programs will include multimedia presentations.
Ives arr. Schunman - Variation on America.
Still - Symphony No.1 Afro-American.
Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F Major.
Copland - Three Dance Episode from Rodeo. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 08/26/12 | Fort Worth |
Augustin Hadelich, ViolinPresented by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall August 25, 2012 Building on the triumph of last season's celebration of Gershwin, Bernstein and Copland, they take a broader and deeper look at great American compositions for orchestra. Some programs will include multimedia presentations.
Harris - When Johny Comes Marching Home.
Barber - Violin Concerto.
Philip Glass - Symphony No.3 third movement.
Grofe - On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite.
Ellington - Harlem. | Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | 08/25/12 | Fort Worth |