Barbecue vendors prepare meat during the 2022 Red Dirt BBQ & Music Festival in Tyler. Twenty barbecue vendors are expected to be at this year’s festival.

Tickets went on sale Friday for the 10th annual Red Dirt BBQ & Music Festival set to return to Tyler’s downtown brick streets this summer.

The festival, set for May 4 on the square, features some of the best barbecue in the state along with talented musicians.

Ticket sales opened up at 10 a.m. Friday online at www.reddirtbbqfest.com/buy-tickets.

Tickets start at $67 for concert-only with an entry time of 3:45 p.m. The next level of tickets are general admission, which include samples from all barbecue joints and concert access along with 1 p.m. entry time. Those cost $92. VIP tickets are $192 and include an entry time of noon, samples from all barbecue joints, a festival T-shirt, two free drinks, and a private VIP area at the front of the stage.

This year’s music lineup includes headliner Randy Rogers Band, along with performers Pony Bradshaw, Treaty Oak Revival, Mark Chestnutt, Kolby Cooper, and Casey Donahew, according to a Monday morning announcement from KNUE and Radio Texas, LIVE! with Buddy Logan.

Some of the participating barbecue vendors will be Brisket Love & BBQ of Lindale; Chopp’d Beef Boys of Dallas; Crossbuck BBQ of Farmers Branch; East Texas Rusk BBQ of Winnsboro; Harlem Road Texas BBQ of Richmond; Hill Barbecue of Lubbock; LJ’s BBQ of Brenham; PitCo of Roanoke; Poke In Da Eye of Tyler/Chapel Hill; Poppy Q’s of Elgin; Reveille Barbecue Co. of Magnolia; Smoak House No. 587 of Palestine; Smokeshow of Tyler; Smokey Joe’s BBQ of Dallas; Smokin’ MexiQ Tex-Mex BBQ of Tyler; Smoky B Barbecue of Athens; Sunbird Barbecue of Longview; Tyler’s Barbecue of Amarillo; BBQ and a Prayer, of Canton; Casey’s BBQ of Athens; Dos Amigos Tejas BBQ of Canton; and East Texas Rust BBQ of Winnsboro.

The Red Dirt BBQ & Music Festival began in 2014. Since its inception, the festival has aimed to bring amazing barbecue and music to the brick streets of downtown Tyler.

Previous musical acts include Whiskey Myers, Turnpike Troubadours, Josh Abbott Band, Cody Johnson, Parker McCollum, Koe Wetzel, Robert Earl Keen, the late Charlie Robison and many more.

Headliner Randy Rogers Band also was the star of the show for the 2019 festival. The band has been together for more than 17 years, according to the band’s website.

“Just like any other relationship, you have to pick your battles and have respect for each other,” Rogers said on the band’s website. “None of us know how to do anything else. This is our livelihood. It’s how we take care of our families. Years ago when we were really struggling and wondering how we were going to make it, there were some deep and emotional conversations that we all had with each other about if this is really what we all wanted and the decision was made a long time ago. The answer was yes then and the answer is still yes now. It’s something we all believe in. This is our life’s work.”

The culmination of the band’s musical journey so far can be heard on their album “Hellbent.”

“Creatively we all bring something different to the table and you can hear it in the records,” Rogers said. “You can hear people’s personalities in the records.”

For more information, visit www.reddirtbbqfest.com.