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The Hwy 30 Music Fest, which started in Idaho in 2009 and has grown into the biggest in that state, is expanding with a second concert series to be staged at Texas Motor Speedway on Oct. 19-23.
In May 1998, the speedway opened Lil' Texas Motor Speedway, a 1 ⁄ 5 mile (0.32 km) paved short track that hosts various divisions of local short track racing, primarily legends cars and bandoleros. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] In August 1999, Gossage announced plans of a new 2 ⁄ 5 mile (0.64 km) dirt track to the main track's east that could seat 13,007 ...
The initial 2005 festival was to be held May 27 at the Chevrolet Amphitheater. This would be the first year that the festival was not held at the Post-Gazette Pavilion. However, the event, which featured Social Distortion, My Chemical Romance, Sum 41, Unwritten Law, and Thirty Seconds to Mars, was not given the X-Fest name. Sum 41 was scheduled ...
Rock the Desert began in August 1999 on the parking lot of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Midland, Texas. An idea birthed by Jeff Fouts, the associate Rector, to provide a free concert as a project to reach out to the church neighborhood has grown to become an area-wide event.
The 10 playoff tracks are the same (including Sept. 24 at Texas Motor Speedway), the exhibition Clash will return to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Daytona 500 will open the season Feb. 19.
The 2022 State Fair of Texas is set to start Sept. 30 and run through Oct. 23, marking its 136th year. The State Fair of Texas is held annually in Dallas at the historic Fair Park, which was ...
The Texas State Fair Football Showdown took place on the third weekend of the 2018 and 2019 fair and featured Southern and Texas Southern. [14] In 2020, the Southern versus Texas Southern game moved to Arlington, Texas. The State Fair of Texas is the only fair in the United States to include a full auto show, dating back to 1913. [15]
The South Texas State Fair traces its roots to the first confirmable fair in Beaumont, held in 1907. With the exception of cancellations in 1917–18, 1942–45, 2005, 2008 & 2020 because of World War I, World War II, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Ike & COVID-19 pandemic respectively, the fair has continued every year since.