Lonestar Trades Arenas for 440 Seats at Coppell Arts Center Sept. 26

Lonestar, the country group behind the massive pop-crossover hit “Amazed,” will play the Coppell Arts Center on September 26 trading the arenas and outdoor festival stages of their heyday for a 440-seat hall in Old Town Coppell. The show starts at 7:30 pm, with tickets running $103.20 including fees. It is an unusually close-quarters booking for a band that has sold more than 10.5 million records worldwide and racked up 10 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

According to the Dallas Observer, Lonestar rose to prominence in 1995 with the top-five single “Tequila Talking” before breaking through nationally. The band's current lineup includes Dean Sams, Michael Britt, Keech Rainwater, and lead vocalist Drew Womack. Womack joined in March 2021, replacing founding frontman Richie McDonald, who departed to tour full-time with the country supergroup The Frontmen, according to MusicRow. Womack previously fronted Sons of the Desert and co-wrote Kenny Chesney's 1997 No. 1 hit “She's Got It All.”

A Catalog Built on Crossover Success

Lonestar's quadruple-platinum 1999 album Lonely Grill delivered four No. 1 singles, part of a run that eventually included the chart-topping songs “No News,” “Come Cryin' to Me,” and “Everything's Changed,” per the Dallas Observer. But it was “Amazed” that turned the band into a household name well beyond country radio. The single spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the country charts and, in 2000, spent two weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart — the first country single to top the Hot 100 since Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's “Islands in the Stream” in 1983, according to Taste of Country. Lonestar has logged 22 top-ten singles on the Hot Country Songs chart overall and has been honored with Academy of Country Music awards for New Vocal Group, Single and Song of the Year, and Humanitarian of the Year, along with Country Music Association honors for Vocal Group of the Year and the International Artist Achievement Award, per the Observer's account.

The band's roots trace back to 1992, when it formed in Nashville under the name Texassee, according to Wikipedia. The early lineup included bassist John Rich, who was dismissed from the group in 1998 before going on to form the country duo Big & Rich. The band changed its name to Lonestar before signing with BNA Records in 1995.

Reinvention Under a New Lead Singer

Since Womack's arrival, Lonestar has leaned into revisiting its own catalog rather than resting on it. In June 2023, the band released Ten to 1 via Band Cave Records, an album featuring newly recorded versions of all 10 of their career No. 1 country singles with Womack on lead vocals, according to MusicRow. A year later, they released Iconic, Vol. 1, a five-song EP of reimagined covers by artists including Fleetwood Mac, Eurythmics, Adele, P!nk, and Cyndi Lauper, with the Fleetwood Mac cover “You Make Loving Fun” serving as the lead single, per Medium. Keyboardist Dean Sams has credited Womack's arrival with giving the band renewed energy, and members reported that 2022 and 2023 were their two busiest touring years in more than three decades.

Old Town Coppell's Intimate New Stage

The venue hosting Lonestar reflects a broader local investment. The Coppell Arts Center opened in 2021 as part of a roughly $49.5 million municipal redevelopment initiative meant to build a vibrant arts and dining district in Old Town Coppell, according to Community Impact. Its Main Hall, where Lonestar will perform, seats just 440 people and includes an automated sound-dampening system, two-tone hardwood finishes, and a Diva acoustic concert shell — features built for close, acoustically refined shows rather than stadium spectacle. The complex also includes the 120-seat Wheelice Wilson Jr. Black Box Theatre, named for a longtime Coppell High School theater teacher known locally as “Mr. Coppell,” who taught there for more than 35 years, per the Coppell Chronicle.

For North Texas country fans, the booking offers a rare chance to see a band that once topped the pop charts in a room built to hold a few hundred people rather than tens of thousands. The September 26 show anchors the venue's 2026–2027 headliner season, which mixes touring acts with local theater and orchestral performances.