The Best Texas Pitmasters Heading to Midland for Basin Red Dirt 2026

If you're gonna throw a party in Texas, you'd better have some great barbecue ready to go. Lucky for you, we'll have enough to feed an army at the Basin Red Dirt BBQ and Music Festival, and the right ticket will get you an insane amount of samples.

The festival is coming up April 11, and we've got a whole roster of some of Texas' best pit masters lined up:

• Bar B Que Bandidas (New Braunfels, TX)
• Big Hugs BBQ (Midland, TX)
• Brantly Creek Barbecue (Odessa, TX)
• Hill Barbecue (New Braunfels, TX)
• Last Round Up Barbecue (Odessa, TX)
• Legado BBQ (Midland, TX)
• Pachuco's (Midland, TX)
• Poppy's Q (Elgin, TX)
• Rudy's (Midland, TX)
• Smokey Joe's BBQ (Dallas, TX)
• Texas Oak BBQ (San Angelo, TX)
• The Block Meat Co. (Odessa, TX)
• Triple J's Barbecue (Midland, TX)

Depending on the ticket you’re holding, you could fill up on unlimited samples (while they last).

BBQ + Concert tickets get you through the gates a few hours early. What's great about that is you get to browse all the BBQ booths and chow down on as many samples as you want.

Then there are the VIP tickets that get you in even earlier, plus two free beverages and access to a VIP bar with liquor. You also get access to a VIP area at the front of the stage. Not bad, right?

If you're coming with lots of friends and want to get the star treatment, you can even get Platinum VIP tickets that'll get you table in the Platinum VIP Area by the stage, plus a separate VIP bar and bathrooms.

All the ticket info you need is over at reddirtbbqbasin.com.

By the way, if you just want to go to the concert to hear Whiskey Myers, Wade Bowen, Jesse Joe, and Mike Chism & Hollow Point live while you kick up dust with your date, that's cool too. Concert-only tickets are available, and you can still buy some great food while you're there.

There's no wrong way to enjoy the festival, but if you love barbecue as much as we do, definitely make sure you grab the right tickets. You won't be sorry!