• All tickets are mobile only. Please note that screenshots and printed tickets will not be accepted.
  • Download your ticket prior to arriving. 
  • Have your tickets ready and brightness on high before approaching the gate. 
• Koka Booth Amphitheatre is a cashless venue. 
• Children 2 and under are free on the lawn for this event and do not need a ticket. 
  • All ages will require a ticket in the Reserved areas. 
• There is a strict limit of eight (8) tickets per person during the sale.

Taxes & Fees:

• Koka Booth Amphitheatre uses all-in pricing. The total price listed on the purchase page includes ticket fees, excluding any applicable taxes.
• When purchasing in person at the Box Office a 3% processing fee will be added to each order, plus tax. No other ticket fees will be applied. 

All dates, times, acts & ticket prices are subject to change without notice.

Koka Booth Amphitheatre has enhanced it's public safety policy to include a clear bag policy. 

Allowed:

• Bags 6"x 8" or smaller are permitted.
• Clear bag that does not exceed 12" x12" x 9".
• Medical and parenting bags. 

All bags are subject to search. 

“That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” has been at it for well over a half century, delivering rock, blues and boogie on the road and in the studio to millions of devoted fans. With iconography as distinctive as their sound, ZZ TOP is virtually synonymous with beards, hotrod cars, spinning guitars and that magic keychain, all of which transcend geography and language. The band consists of singer/guitarist Billy F Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard (a/k/a “The Man with No Beard”) and bassist Elwood Francis, who stepped up in 2021 after the passing of longtime member Dusty Hill. With the release of each of their albums the band has explored new ground in terms of both their sonic approach and the material they’ve recorded. ZZ TOP is the same but always changing.

Their latest album RAW (Shelter Records/BMG, July 2022) was recorded at the historic Texas venue Gruene Hall as part of the filming for the 2019 Grammy-nominated documentary directed by Sam Dunn, aptly titled ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas. Billy, Frank and Dusty blazed through 12 career-spanning tunes in what their guitarist calls “a satisfying return to our roots and a very special circumstance that we’re delighted to share with the friends and fans who have stuck with us all this time.” The album is issued “in righteous memory” of Dusty, and in conjunction with their 50+ date 2022 North American RAW WHISKY TOUR. The tour’s title is partially derived from the new ZZ Top Tres Hombres Whisky offered from Balcones Distilling.

It was in Houston in the waning days of 1969 that ZZ TOP coalesced from the core of two rival bands, Billy’s Moving Sidewalks and Frank and Dusty’s American Blues. The new group went on to record the appropriately titled ZZ Top’s First Album and Rio Grande Mud that reflected their strong blues roots.  Their third, 1973’s Tres Hombres, catapulted them to national attention with the hit “La Grange,” still one of the band’s signature pieces today. The song is unabashed elemental boogie, celebrating the institution that came to be known as “the best little whorehouse in Texas.” Their next hit was “Tush,” a song about, well, let’s just say the pursuit of “the good life” that was featured on their Fandango! album, released in 1975. The band’s momentum and success built during its first decade, culminating in the legendary “World Wide Texas Tour,” a production that included a longhorn steer, a buffalo, buzzards, rattlesnakes and a Texas-shaped stage. As a touring unit, they’ve been without peer over the years, having performed before millions of fans through North America on numerous epochal tours as well as overseas where they’ve enthralled audiences from Slovenia to Argentina, from Australia to Sweden, from Russia to Japan and most points in between.

Following a lengthy hiatus during which the individual members of the band traveled the world, they switched labels (from British Decca’s London label to Warner Bros.) and returned with two amazingly provocative albums, Deguello and El Loco. Their next release, Eliminator, was something of a paradigm shift for ZZ TOP. Their roots blues skew was intact but added to the mix were tech-age trappings that soon found a visual outlet with the nascent MTV. Suddenly, Billy, Dusty and Frank were video icons, playing a kind of Greek chorus in videos that highlighted the album’s three smash singles: “Gimme All Your Lovin’, “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs.” The melding of grungy guitar-based blues with synth-pop was seamless and continued with the follow-up album Afterburner as they continued their chart juggernaut. ZZ TOP had accomplished the impossible; they had moved with the times while simultaneously bucking ephemeral trends that crossed their path. They had become more popular and more iconic without ever having to be “flavor of the week.” They had become a certified rock institution, contemporary in every way, yet still completely connected to the founding fathers of the genre.

They stayed with Warner for one more album, Recycler, released in 1990 and switched to RCA where they debuted with Antenna and followed with Rhythmeen, XXX and Mescalero. Beyond that, both a lavish four CD box set compilation, Chrome, Smoke & B.B.Q. and a two-CD distillation of that package, Rancho Texicano, were released by Warner.

In 2012, ZZ TOP unveiled LA FUTURA, their first studio album in nine years.  Produced by Rick Rubin and Billy F Gibbons, and released on American Recordings, it reflected the solid blues inspiration that has powered the band since the very beginning with a contemporary approach that underscored the group’s inclination to experiment and explore new sonic vistas.  The album included the widely lauded “I Gotsta Get Paid” that has become both a video and in-concert sensation.  ZZ Top’s rich history became the subject of a box set release the following year.  ZZ Top: The Complete Studio Albums 1970-1990 offered no fewer than 10 of the band’s most lauded albums all with the original mixes restored.

ZZ TOP’s career retrospective The Very Baddest surfaced in 2014. It spans the entire course of their London, Warner Bros. and RCA years. Listeners can follow the evolution of the band’s sound from the early ‘70s into the ‘00s on either a 40 track double CD or a 20 track single CD. That same year Eagle Rock Entertainment released Live at Montreux 2013 on both Blu-ray and DVD formats, showcasing their live act, leaving no doubt as to why they have been such a huge concert draw for the last several decades. When it comes to the live experience, they’ve still got it.

2016 saw the release of ZZ TOP’s Live! Greatest Hits From Around The World album on Suretone, consisting of 15 songs recorded live in 13 cities across three continents. Guitar legend Jeff Beck joins the band on stage in his native London for two songs – “Rough Boy,” and a cover of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons,” the latter of which was inspired by a hoax YouTube video claiming to be ZZ TOP and Jeff Beck playing that very song. Their rendition matches the hoax video, in what Billy describes as “a mega meta kinda thang.” 

The elements that keep ZZ TOP fresh, enduring and above the transitory fray can be summed up in the three words of the band’s internal mantra: “Tone, Taste and Tenacity.” Of course, the three members of the band have done their utmost to do their part in assuring that ZZ TOP prevails. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers. Billy is widely regarded as one of American finest blues guitarists working in the rock idiom. His influences are both the originators of the form – Muddy Waters, B.B. King, et al – as well as the British blues rockers who emerged the generation before ZZ’s ascendance. In his early days of playing, no less an idol than Jimi Hendrix singled him out for praise. Part mad scientist, part prankster, he’s a musical innovator of the highest order and a certified “guitar god.” He also had a recurring small screen presence in the hit TV series Bones in which he played a bearded, gruff, rock guitarist. No type casting problems for Billy.

Frank has also been keeping the beat in that great tradition.  As both a roots and progressive drummer, he has been acknowledged as key to the band’s powerful on-stage and in-studio presence. He and Dusty, in their early years together, served as Lightnin’ Hopkins’ rhythm section which, as Frank tells it, was a life changing experience.  Frank, despite his last name, is the guy in the band without a beard.  But when you’re with him, you’re with a Beard.  He’s a rockin’ paradox who provides the pulse of ZZ TOP.

Elwood has been part of the ZZ Top family for the better part of three decades as the band’s guitar tech. In July 2021, when Dusty took a temporary leave to deal with a chronic hip injury, Elwood was asked to step in for Dusty until his return, which unfortunately was not to be. Dusty’s untimely passing opened the way for Elwood to become ZZ’s permanent bassist. Although the absolute legend that is and always will be Dusty Hill can never be replaced, Elwood’s exceptional musicianship more than qualifies him to take over as the band’s bass player.

ZZ TOP’s music is always instantly recognizable, eminently powerful, profoundly soulful and 100% Texas American in derivation.  The band’s support for the blues is unwavering both as interpreters of the music and preservers of its legacy.  It was ZZ TOP that celebrated “founding father” Muddy Waters by turning a piece of scrap timber than had fallen from his sharecropper’s shack into a beautiful guitar, dubbed the “Muddywood.” This totem was sent on tour as a fundraising focus for The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, site of Robert Johnson’s famed “Crossroads” encounter with the devil.  ZZ TOP’s support and link to the blues remains as rock solid as the music they continue to play.  They have sold millions of records over the course of their career, have been officially designated as Heroes of The State of Texas, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (by Keith Richards, no less) and have been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms and are true rock icons but, against all odds, they’re really just doing what they’ve always done. They’re real and they’re surreal and they’re ZZ TOP.

DWIGHT YOAKAM

BIO - Updated April 2025

Dwight Yoakam is a legendary artist whose influence has reshaped the landscape of country music and beyond. With over 25 million albums sold worldwide, he is a 21-time GRAMMY® nominee and multiple GRAMMY® Award winner. His catalog includes 12 gold albums and 9 platinum or multi-platinum releases, with five topping Billboard Country Albums chart and 14 landing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of his singles have charted on Billboard, including 14 Top 10 hits.

A recipient of the Americana Music Association’s Artist of the Year award and BMI Country Music’s President’s Award, the highest honors bestowed by each organization, Yoakam was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019.

His latest release, Brighter Days (Via Records/Thirty Tigers), marks his first new album in nine years. Released in November 2024, the album was written and recorded over a three-year period and features twelve brand-new songs written or co-written by Yoakam. It also includes three seemingly disparate covers: “Keep On the Sunny Side” by the Carter Family, “Bound Away” by Cake, and “Time Between” by Chris Hillman of The Byrds, artfully woven into the same body of work in the unmistakable style that could only be Dwight Yoakam.

A passionate curator of musical heritage, Yoakam launched his SiriusXM channel Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat: Where Country Went Mod in 2018, spotlighting the Bakersfield sound and its far-reaching influence. The channel celebrates the Bakersfield sound and those whom it has inspired. Guests have included Post Malone, Lukas Nelson, Beck, Chris Hillman, Jakob Dylan, and Jackie DeShannon.

In 2016, Yoakam released Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars..., on Sugar Hill Records. Featuring a band of bluegrass luminaries, this album boasts a collection of reinterpreted favorites from his catalogue, as well as a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain”. Produced by nine-time GRAMMY® winner Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton), Jon Randall (songwriter of “Whiskey Lullaby”), and Yoakam himself, and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, this album reflects the love for bluegrass music that Yoakam developed at an early age in Kentucky and that has inspired him for many years thereafter. In 2018, Yoakam released two songs, “Pretty Horses” and “Then Came Monday” (the latter written with Chris Stapleton).

Yoakam is a multifaceted artist, seamlessly blending his musical talents with a robust acting career. He has appeared in over 40 feature films, including notable roles in Sling Blade (1996) and Panic Room (2002). He later reunited with Billy Bob Thornton for David E. Kelley’s Amazon series Goliath. Yoakam portrayed Warden Burns in Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky (2017) alongside Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig and took on the role of Howard Polk in Clint Eastwood's Cry Macho (2021). Throughout his career, he has demonstrated his acting range alongside acclaimed actors such as Jodie Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, and Matthew McConaughey.

Whether on stage, in the studio, or on screen, Yoakam continues to evolve as one of the most compelling and culturally significant artists of our time.

• Outside food and beverages are not permitted at this event. Each person is allowed to bring one factory-sealed bottle of water (no glass allowed). Please refrain from bringing glass containers, cans, or flavored water.
• Our Concession stands will be open selling a variety of food and beverages. SEE MENU.
• Picnic in the Park partners will be available to pre-order food and have it ready upon your arrival. NOTE: Each restaurant has an order cut-off. SEE PIP PARTNERS

We pride ourselves on bringing a wide variety of events to Cary, NC. What our guests are allowed to bring into each event varies from event to event.   Please review the event page you are attending for specific information regarding that event. 

Guests can bring the following items to Concerts:

• Bags 6"x 8" or smaller are permitted.
• 12" x12" x 9" Clear bags only.
• Medical and parenting bags.
• Factory-sealed plastic bottles of water (1 per person). 
  • No glass/cans/flavored water.
• Empty reusable non-glass water bottle up to 1 Liter. 
  • Water Fill Stations located in the Cobblestone Courtyard.
• Select Lawn Chairs: No footrest, canopy, lounge chairs, tri-fold chairs, or swinging chairs. See examples. Please remove the chair from the bag at the security checkpoint.
• Rain Coats.
• Ponchos.
• Strollers (allowed on the lawn only).

All small clutches & clear bags are subject to search.

Prohibited items MUST be returned to guests’ vehicle before entering.  

Please leave the following items at home:  

• Alcohol
• Bags  (Unless clear & approved size)
• Backpacks
• Balloons, Banners & Signs
• Blankets, Towels, Mats of any kind including Yoga Mats
  • Please, our grass isn't into being smothered. Let it live it's best life so you can too! Great for picnics, not for packed shows!
• Brochures/Stickers/Handouts
• Confetti/Glitter
• Coolers
• Drones
• Fireworks
• Food & Beverages
• Go Pros, Audio or video recorders
• Grills & Open Flames
• Hammocks
• Hula Hoops
• Illegal Drugs
• Laser Pointers
• Select Lawn Chairs: No footrest, canopy, lounge chairs, tri-fold chairs, or swinging chairs. See examples. Please remove the chair from the bag at the security checkpoint. 
• Noise Makers
• Pets of any kind (excluding service animals)
• Professional cameras with detachable lenses
• Selfie Sticks
• Sporting Equipment
• Tables of any size
• Tablets of any kind
• Tarps & Plastic sheeting
• Tents/Staking
• Umbrellas of any size
• Wagons/Carts
• Weapons of Any Kind (Include but not limited to knives, guns, tasers, chains, mace, studded/spiked jewelry)

PREMIERE PARKING: A limited number of Premiere Parking will be available for $30.00 in advance or $35.00 on the day of the show, if spaces are available. Pass entitles 1 car to park in the Premiere Parking lot located at 9000 Regency Parkway.

PREFERRED PARKING: A limited number of Preferred Parking will be available for $25.00 in advance or $30.00 on the day of the event, if spaces are available. Pass entitles 1 car to park in the Preferred Parking lot located at 9000 Regency Parkway.

PURCHASE PARKING

• Parking passes may be purchased at the box office in person, by phone through Etix or online at etix.com.  

• Parking lots open 1 hour before venue gates open.
• Purchasing a Parking Pass is NOT a ticket for the event, and is not valid for entry into the event.
• Please present your Parking Pass upon arrival. 

FREE PARKING: Free parking is available in select lots at Koka Booth Amphitheatre on a first-come-first-served basis. Locations are as follows: 

• 11000 Regency Parkway

When parking in neighboring lots, please note these lots are self-parking facilities, and you do so at your own risk. By entering, paying, or parking, you agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by North Carolina law, the lot owner and the parking lot operator are not responsible for theft, loss, damage, or injury involving you, your vehicle, its contents, or any person in the lot. No bailment or duty of safekeeping is created.

ACCESSIBLE PARKING: A limited number of accessible parking spaces are available on a first-come-first-served basis with the proper hang tag or license plate.

DROP OFF & PICK-UP AREA: If using a taxi, Uber, etc please follow the signs & our Parking Staff to the drop-off/pick-up area. Rideshare Address: 11000 Regency Parkway Cary, NC 27518

If using Taxi Service/ Uber / Lyft or dropping off a friend/family member; Koka Booth Amphitheatre has a DESIGNATED drop off & pick up area. For the safety of all patrons please follow the signs to this designated area when arriving at the venue. Please do not drop off or pick up in any other areas.

ZZ Top Front Row Premium Ticket Package

Package includes:

• (1) Front row ticket

• ZZ Top merchandise- exclusive to VIP packages

• Limited edition ZZ Top 2026 Concert poster

ZZ Top Gold Premium Ticket Package

Package includes

• (1) Second Row ticket

• ZZ Top merchandise – exclusive to VIP packages

• Limited edition ZZ Top 2026 Concert poster

ZZ Top Silver Premium Ticket Package

Package includes

• (1) Ticket located in the first 15 rows
• Limited edition ZZ Top merchandise – exclusive to VIP packages

Posted on May 21:

Due to potentially negative weather the show originally scheduled for Friday, May 22, 2026 has been postponed to Thursday, September 24th. All tickets previously purchased will be honored for the rescheduled date.

If you are unable to attend the rescheduled date, please click HERE to request a refund. Refund requests must be submitted by June 29th at 5:00 PM.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at info@boothamp.com.