The Best North Texas Halloween and Dia de los Muertos Concerts

If your idea of a perfect Halloween involves a night of live music, Dallas has you covered. Whether you’re looking for country, EDM, or the holographic ghost of an iconic opera singer, you’ve got options. Below, we’ve rounded up the best shows in town on Halloween itself, as well as Day of the Dead.

Friday, Oct. 31

Maria Callas “Live” in Concert
Music Hall at Fair Park | 7:30 p.m. | Tickets 

What better way to celebrate Halloween than in concert with the “ghost” of late opera singer Maria Callas? Live orchestration from the Dallas Opera Orchestra will accompany the soprano’s hologram and her digitally remastered recordings, including arias from Bellini, Bizet, Verdi, Puccini and Gounod.

UMI
The Bomb Factory | 8 p.m. | Tickets 

After supporting acts like Conan Gray and Jhené Aiko on tour, UMI is making a name for herself and her neo-soul sound. At The Bomb Factory, she’ll be supporting her second studio album, people sounds–titled as such because each track was written after a story told to UMI by a fan, friend, or loved one. 

DFW Sober Living Halloween Party
1900 Jay Ell Dr, Richardson | 8 p.m. 

Now eight years sober, DJ Austin Shook–or Shooknite–has made it his mission to bring hope and healing to Dallas’ party scene. At the city’s biggest sober Halloween party, expect a costume contest, light bites, and, of course, beats to keep you moving all night long.

Halloween Monster Ball – The Jojo Jam Show
AT&T Discovery District | 8 p.m. | Tickets

Over the summer, we spoke to founder and host Jojo Spencer about her community-building open mic. They return for a spooky edition of Jojo Jam and they’re going all out. The night promises live music, open mic performances, a spooky showcase, tattoo artists, tarot readers, vendors and surprises lurking around every corner. Get your best Halloween costume ideas together because the winner gets a “spooky hamper full of treats.”

HUGEL
SILO | 9 p.m. | Tickets

With Latin house hit “Morenita” as well as 2024’s hit collaboration with Iranian-Swedish singer Arash “I Adore You” under his belt, the French DJ will bring his cross-cultural blend of dance to Dallas’ home for EDM, promising a set that’ll keep energy high in the Design District all night.

Blanco Brown
Billy Bob’s | 10 p.m. | Tickets 

Though Blanco Brown has produced hits for the likes of Fergie and Pitbull, you probably know him for his debut single “The Git Up” and its accompanying TikTok-viral dance challenge. It’s fitting, then, that his visit to Dallas will take place over in Fort Worth at Billy Bob’s–the perfect backdrop for two-stepping the night away.

Blade Rave: Halloween Vampire Masquerade
South Side Music Hall | 8 p.m. | Tickets

Blade Rave returns to Dallas to deliver one of the biggest bloodbaths ever for attendees at midnight. In just one year, the party is traveling across the U.S., but the anticipation is high as it packs out South Side Music Hall inside Gilley’s for their one-year anniversary, transforming it into a Halloween masquerade. There will be three rooms of fun. In the music hall, there will be sounds by DYWLKRZ, ALI RU, META RŪ, KINGTUT.MP3 and special guests. In the Brazoz Room, VAMPIRES Y VATOS is playing gothwave, synthwave, post punk, electronic and body music. In the Pasadena Room, (SIC) NU NIGHT brings all your favorite Nü Metal and heavy jams. This is an 18+ event, so get there early and have your costumes ready.

Nikki Lane
Granada Theater | 8 p.m. | Tickets

Singer-songwriter Nikki Lane has released just one song under her name this year, but it packs an outsized wallop. “Woodruff City Limit,” which Lane dropped back in June, is a shattering work composed in the wake of Lane’s father’s death in 2024: “Learned about pain before I learned to speak,” she sings in one devastating lyric. The embrace of life’s rough edges isn’t new to Lane — the South Carolina native has long balanced the sour and the sweet to mesmerizing effect across her four studio albums, including her latest, 2022’s Denim & Diamonds. It’s part and parcel of her studied resistance to what country music in the 21 st century should look and sound like, as she told The Independent three years ago: “I grew up knowing who Loretta Lynn was. But I was from the South and we were trying to fight against old country music. Southern teenage girls want to go out and get tattoos and go against all that.” J. Isaiah Evans & the Boss Tweed will open. Preston Jones

Saturday, Nov. 1

Dom Dolla
Dos Equis Pavilion | 6:30 p.m. | Tickets

Dom Dolla has sold out venues like Red Rocks and played both Lollapalooza and Coachella, but on Nov. 1, he’ll bring club favorites like “Rhyme Dust” and “San Frandisco” to Dos Equis. Beloved by casual-listener fraternity brothers and hardcore house fans alike, the Aussie DJ’s Nov. 1 set is one of the most anticipated events of the year for Dallas EDM heads. 

The 502s
The Echo Lounge & Music Hall | 7 p.m. | Tickets 

Hailing from suburban Orlando, The 502s have developed a banjo-and-horn-heavy sound that’s guaranteed to get you on your feet. With them on stage, the Echo is more likely to feel like a backyard party than an intimate, 1,000-person venue. 

Viagra Boys
House of Blues Dallas | 8 p.m. | Tickets 
According to frontman Sebastian Murphy, 2025’s self-titled Viagr Aboys is “a bit simple and stupid” in comparison to the Swedish post-punk group’s 2022 album Cave World, which was riddled with timely criticism of anti-vaxxers and right-wing hypermasculinity. But longtime fans are sure to be pleased on tour with Viagr Aboys tracks like lead single “Man Made of Meat,” which still feature musings in the same vein on overconsumption and dissatisfaction with, well, the state of the world–apt, given that the tour is named “Infinite Anxiety.” 

Patty Griffin and Rickie Lee Jones
Longhorn Ballroom | 8 p.m. | Tickets

As the old saw goes, Patty Griffin wasn’t born in Texas, but she got here as fast as she could. The Maine-born singer-songwriter relocated to Austin in 1997, where she’s lived ever since, steadily building up a catalog of peerless songcraft which has amassed her no small amount of acclaim — A-listers like Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift are all on record as being inspired by Griffin’s work — and plenty of industry accolades, including multiple Grammys and the lifetime achievement award from the Americana Music Honors & Awards in 2023. The 61-year-old musician is touring behind her first studio album in six years, Crown of Roses, and she’ll be joined for this date by another titan of troubadour-dom, Ricki Lee Jones, whose most recent LP is 2023’s Pieces of Treasure. PJ

MANÁ
American Airlines Center | 8:30 p.m. | Tickets 

39 years after their formation, Mexican pop-rock band MANÁ is still going strong. On their VIVIN SIN AIRE (“living without air”) Tour, expect to hear the beloved classics that have garnered four Grammys and nine Latin Grammys, plus a remake of classics with new collabs on Noches De Cantina. Following their historic nomination as the first Spanish-language band to be considered for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, expect the tour to deliver new production and a setlist tailored for fans.

You can find The Observer’s complete concert listings here.