IRVING, Texas. ZZ Top Irving lands at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory on Sunday, Oct. 4, as ZZ Top brings The Big One Tour, with Cheap Trick as support, a Live Nation listing that puts showtime at 6 p.m. at 300 W. Las Colinas Blvd.
For North Texas weekend planners, it is the clearest Sunday night rock headliner in Irving while the State Fair, a Richardson art fair, a stadium truck show, and a downtown Dallas reggaeton date fill the rest of the Oct. 1-4 calendar.
This is not a thin tour-date paste. The local stake is practical: one Las Colinas amphitheater night as the Sunday anchor, plus a short verified shortlist of other DFW draws readers are already asking about.
ZZ Top Irving: what is confirmed
The ZZ Top Irving date is the weekend’s main rock draw. Live Nation lists ZZ Top and Cheap Trick at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 6 p.m. CultureMap Dallas places the date on The Big One Tour and notes Cheap Trick is on the road behind its 2025 album All Washed Up. Ticket resale and primary listings circulating this week show the same Irving venue and date.
The band on stage is not the classic three-piece that defined decades of Texas rock radio.
After bassist Dusty Hill’s death in 2021, longtime guitar tech Elwood Francis stepped in on bass.
After drummer Frank Beard’s death in August 2026, Michael Monahan has been the touring drummer alongside Billy Gibbons, according to contemporary coverage in Texas Monthly, The Dallas Morning News, and Consequence. Never Late News is not claiming a new studio album announcement for this date. The verified fact for readers is the Irving show itself and the touring configuration that has kept the brand on the road.
Venue basics matter for night-of logistics. The Pavilion sits inside the Toyota Music Factory entertainment district in Las Colinas. Live Nation’s event page is the cleanest official ticket path. Bag and entry rules follow the venue’s published clear-bag policy on the event listing (clear totes up to 12″ x 6″ x 12″ and small clutches).
Same-weekend DFW shortlist (verified times and venues)
If Sunday’s ZZ Top bill is your headline, these are the other North Texas stops worth knowing for Oct. 1-4, each checked against an official or venue page:
- Don Omar at American Airlines Center (Thursday, Oct. 1): The Last King World Tour, 8 p.m., doors 6:30 p.m., 2500 Victory Avenue in Dallas, per the arena’s event page.
- State Fair of Texas at Fair Park (ongoing through Oct. 18): The fair runs Sept. 25-Oct. 18, 2026. Fair Park’s listing puts Sundays through Thursdays at 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Fridays-Saturdays at 10 a.m.-10 p.m., with last entry at 9 p.m. That covers the full Oct. 1-4 window.
- Cottonwood Art Festival in Richardson (Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 3-4): Cottonwood Park, 1321 W. Belt Line Road. Hours are Saturday 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free, according to the festival’s information page. Over 200 juried artists are listed as typical for the show.
- Monster Jam at AT&T Stadium in Arlington (Saturday, Oct. 3): Event start 7 p.m., with a Pit Party window from 2:30-5:30 p.m. (event ticket plus Pit Party pass required for the pit), per AT&T Stadium’s Monster Jam page.
That mix covers a Thursday arena date, a fairgrounds day trip, a free outdoor art weekend in Richardson, a Saturday night stadium motorsports show, and the Irving amphitheater rock bill on Sunday. Families splitting the weekend can stack Cottonwood or the fair by day and Monster Jam or ZZ Top by night without inventing overlap that the calendars do not support.
Why ZZ Top Irving is the Sunday hook
Toyota Music Factory is one of the easier North Texas concert campuses for drivers coming from Dallas, Fort Worth, or the northern suburbs: Las Colinas sits near major freeways, and the Pavilion’s outdoor bowl is built for warm early-October evenings. Pairing ZZ Top with Cheap Trick also gives the night a classic-rock double bill rather than a single-headliner sprint.
Readers following civic news in Irving will recognize the same city that has been in the school-finance conversation this fall, including Irving ISD’s November bond package. Entertainment nights and school ballots are different beats. Both are part of how people actually use a weekend in this metro.
For concertgoers who also track national rock tours, Never Late News previously covered stadium-scale routing on the Metallica 2027 North American stadium dates. The ZZ Top Irving stop is a different scale and a different audience, but it is the local date on the board this Sunday.
Practical notes (no invented prices)
Ticket prices move by inventory and reseller.
Live Nation and the venue box office remain the primary references. Cottonwood’s free gate makes it the cheapest full-day option on the list. State Fair entry and Monster Jam tickets are separate purchases through their official sites (BigTex.com / Fair Park listings and AT&T Stadium). Don Omar is a standard AAC reserved-seat show with published door and start times.
Weather in early October in North Texas is usually cooperative for an outdoor Pavilion show and for Cottonwood’s park layout, but both are open-air. Check the day-of forecast before locking a stroller-heavy Cottonwood morning and a late Irving concert the same Sunday.
Corrections and reader feedback
If a start time, venue address, or billing changes after this draft, email editor@neverlatenews.com with the official listing link. Never Late News will correct promptly.
About Never Late News: Never Late News is a US local and civic news site covering North Texas entertainment and sports with people-first reporting. This article carries the byline Mike Joe.