Featured Events in Lubbock in June 2025 (June Updated)

This Eventbrite page is to sign up to be a vendor for Pride Fest 2025. For more information on attending Pride Fest, please visit LubbockPRIDE.org Going on our 13th year, Lubbock Pride Fest is excited to be back for our annual LGBTQ+ festival that combines booths, activities, entertainers, and food trucks for a day of fun and celebration. We bring together locals, families, community groups, and local businesses. Pride Fest will take place on Saturday, June 28th. The festival area is in the Lubbock Art District at LHUCA Plaza on 5th Street and Avenue J. Booth Pricing Schedule Tier 1: February 13 - March 31 Non-Profit Organizations - Free Social, Advocacy, or Political Group - $50 Business - $75 Food Trucks - $30 Tier 2: April 1 - May 15 Non-Profit Organizations - $25 Social, Advocacy, or Political Group - $75 Business - $100 Food Trucks - $35 Tier 3: May 16 - June 15 Non-Profit Organizations - $50 Social, Advocacy, or Political Group - $100 Business - $125 Food Trucks - $40 Information Source: LubbockPRIDE | eventbrite

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Shinyribs - Back by Popular Request - Live at Cactus Theater! Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Doors: 6:50 • Showtime: 7:30 pm We may never know what Shinyribs is. Sometimes, it’s a sprawling multi-piece ensemble slapping the air until it grooves; sometimes he’s a somber subtle songwriter pouring poetry on the ground from a cup half full. Either way it’s always the house-party-meets-library that is, Kevin Russell. Raised in Beaumont, TX, and Shreveport, LA—the cradle of swamp pop, Leadbelly, and bayou R&B—Russell distills those regional sounds into something both timeless and immediate, dripping from his fingers like honey, salt & fat. Think Texas Gulf Coast meets Muscle Shoals, songs carved and weaved by hand with a storyteller’s heart. Shinyribs evolved from a solo residency Russell began under that moniker in the mid-2000s, after an incident in a Houston club, playing a private party for a group of welders where he bought a homeless woman a plate of ribs. “Her name was Roberta,” says Russell. “She was a high priestess of transistor radios and an almost forgotten music she called ‘Chilibump.’ For that plate of Ribs that night she gave me in return a name, Shinyribs and a road map to the mysterious big thicket sounds I had only heard of from old timers and time travelers.” With the album Leaving Time , produced by David Beck (Texan Weekend, Blue Healer), Russell parks the party bus behind the venue and sits in a lawn chair in the street lights with the bugs and a dingy moon. Joined by extraordinary bassist, arranger and co-producer, Mason Hankamer , keyboardist Jonny Keys (Uncle Lucius), drummer Dees Stribling and Mr. Beck singing gourd-like harmonies while handling multiple Instrumental touches, Leaving Time is a departure and an arrival showcase of Russell’s long evolution as a classic Texas songwriter. The songs reconnect with Russell’s literary roots, the folk and country influences that shaped his work with The Gourds , and the ever-present irreverence guiding his musical journey since his early years. Kevin Russell - Shinyribs - invites you into his junkyard of juke, his shack of shakin’ souls, for a Sunday evening sit down, a slow sound for a sweet night. When the time is just right for Leaving, let ya mind wander into believing. It’s Leaving Time. Reserved Tickets: All floor and standard balcony....$25 advance; $30 day of show; Balcony Box* seats....$50 advance; $60 day of show * Box includes concessions with ticket; pick up wristband at ticket booth upon arrival. Information Source: Cactus Theater | eventbrite