• Dallas and Fort Worth music festivals include rock, jazz and blues.music festival graphic illustration image by janika from Fotolia.com
  
  From rock 'n' roll to blues, soul, country and jazz, you can find music in Dallas and Fort Worth. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has a musical diversity that is demonstrated by the array of music festivals the area hosts each year.
  
  

Main Street Arts Festival

• Fort Worth's Main Street Arts Festival, held every April in the city's downtown, brings together food, street performers, visual arts and crafts and dozens of local and regional musicians performing on multiple stages. Performers at the festival cover many musical genres, including rock, jazz, blues and country. Headliners at the Main Street Arts Festival have included blues giant Buddy Guy and Latino rockers Los Lonely Boys.
  
  

Bedford Labor Day Blues Festival

• From electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker to six-string virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan, the blues has a long and rich history in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. For more than 10 years, the annual Bedford Labor Day Blues Festival honors this heritage with three days of barbecue and blues each Labor Day weekend. Held in Bedford, between Dallas and Fort Worth, the festival showcases regional and national blues talent. Previous performers have included soul crooner Al Green and Texas blues rockers the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
  
  

Deep Ellum Arts Festival

• The downtown Dallas neighborhood known as Deep Ellum has long enjoyed a reputation as a breeding ground for musical talent. This reputation extends to the 1920s, when the area was the stomping ground of many area blues and jazz artists. The Deep Ellum Arts Festival, held every April, honors the musical diversity of this eclectic neighborhood, of Dallas and of Texas as a whole. This free street festival features multiple stages, each emphasizing a different genre of music. The music offered at the annual festival includes blues, rockabilly, alternative rock and singer-songwriters.
  
  

North Texas Irish Festival

• You don't have to wait for St. Patrick's Day to feel the Irish in you. The North Texas Irish Festival, the nation's largest celebration of Celtic music and culture, occurs the first weekend of March each year in Dallas' Fair Park district. The festival features regional, national and international Celtic music artists. Past performers have included Altan and the late Tommy Makem, formerly of the Clancy Brothers.
  
  

Jazz by the Boulevard Music and Arts Festival

• A younger entry into the Dallas-Fort Worth area's slate of music festivals, Fort Worth's Jazz by the Boulevard has brought three days of live rhythm and blues and jazz to the city's cultural district. The festival, held in September, helps benefit the preservation of Fort Worth's historic Camp Bowie Boulevard area. Previous performers at Jazz by the Boulevard have included Chuck Mangione, Branford Marsalis and David Sanborn.