08/31/2026
You walk into Memorial City Hall Performance Centerl as a ticket holder. You walk out as part of a worldwide family.
That’s what happens at the Texas Sounds International Country Music Awards Festival.
You sit close enough to hear a voice from Kenya, Ireland, Namibia, Georgia, Mexico, Canada, and a dozen other nations, all singing music that sounds like East Texas. By the second night you stop thinking in countries. You start thinking in songs. In stories. In the person in the next seat who flew in, or drove in, for the same reason you did.
Something shifts.
You leave with a deeper love of Texas Country, not as a playlist, but as a living language the whole world is speaking. You understand why this performance center in downtown Marshall matters. You feel the difference between a stadium show and a room where the music can change you.
And you feel this, quietly and for good: You are part of something unique and special.
There is nothing else like it. An intimate historic hall. Elite independent artists from around the globe. A community that gathers once a year and then stays connected across oceans.
Come as an audience member.
Leave as one of us.
Texas Sounds International CMA Festival
October 1–4, 2026
Memorial City Hall Performance Center · Marshall, Texas
Tickets from $32 · 3-Night Pass $85 - texassounds.org
