New Braunfels: Hayes Carll at Gruene Hall
June 13 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Hayes Carll returns to one of Texas’s most iconic stages on Saturday, June 13, 2026. He takes the floor at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels at 8 PM — a perfect pairing of one of the Lone Star State’s finest singer-songwriters with its oldest operating dance hall. Tickets are available on StubHub from $33.
Carll grew up in The Woodlands, north of Houston, and spent his early years busking the bars of Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula. He sharpened his craft at Galveston’s Old Quarter Acoustic Café — the same storied room that helped launch Townes Van Zandt — absorbing the Texas folk and country sounds that still run through everything he writes.
His 2008 Lost Highway release Trouble in Mind put him on the national map. The standout track “She Left Me for Jesus” won Americana Music Association Song of the Year and landed Carll on Letterman. He followed it with KMAG YOYO & Other American Stories (2011), which Spin ranked among the best country-Americana records of the year. In 2016, he earned a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song for “Chances Are,” later covered by Lee Ann Womack.
His catalog keeps growing. What It Is (2019) and You Get It All (2021), both on Dualtone Records, reinforced his standing as one of Texas’s most honest and durable voices. Artists from Kenny Chesney to Brothers Osborne have recorded his songs. In 2024, he teamed with Band of Heathens to form Hayes & The Heathens, releasing a self-titled record that brought full-band swagger to his familiar gift for plain-spoken storytelling.
If you haven’t caught Hayes Carll live, Gruene Hall is exactly where you want to do it for the first time — or the tenth. Grab your tickets on StubHub and spend a Saturday night the way Texas intended.