{"id":1956266,"date":"2025-08-12T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1956266"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:07:08","slug":"one-of-texas-oldest-dancehalls-is-closing-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/one-of-texas-oldest-dancehalls-is-closing-its-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Texas&#8217; oldest dancehalls is closing its doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Coupland Dancehall is closing its doors after 120 years of providing a space for entertainment just 30 miles northeast of Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The dancehall announced the closure in a Facebook post on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Coupland\u2019s doors will close on Oct. 11. There was no official reason given for the closing. Abbey Road, the owner of Coupland, told country music news outlet Saving Country Music that the music venue had been battling dwindling revenue and the challenges of running a music venue that pushed her to donate the dancehall to a nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>The dancehall has been a staple in Texas music for decades and has hosted some of the biggest names in the history of the Lone Star State, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hayes Carll, Pat Green and Kevin Fowler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main focus is to make sure we could honor the legacy of this dance hall. And we\u2019re being able to do that by putting together some really awesome shows over the next 10 weeks,\u201d Road told Saving Country Music.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Road purchased the building back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>To say farewell, the dancehall announced a \u201cfarewell season.\u201d From Aug. 9 to Oct. 11, Coupland will celebrate the legacy with more shows, pictures on social media for customers and special guests. The dancehall is calling it \u201cThe Last Call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcouplanddancehallofficial%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0F82tEqZzAAqRuCF5zcSgdyF6vyLts5dsvP4boPnkJ2JfNUrwyVH5x7KxYpeqchKJl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tickets to the final shows can be purchased <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.couplanddancehall.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExSmJZS3lYRk5HWUVidE5kRAEeuChoI68xYRi0DpRLi41j0ZLFWsyswQtqiEWf8xU6SmhhU-41w0AYlU8AGi4_aem_uygPcGSXuKBR4aE167hbSA&amp;h=AT25PtFMC8R3WlFPLBrRor8RxFxutu08lZ3vWmN0-yoCXgL9ERxpT3_hhSTcheYCl99aoz29f01CVDVYCKsqGmnwsCS8NUy1uFduq6CTykHGW6i-IBq27GGb1w0b5_aB6eg1Ow9Yfz0aN8aD&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT0W4ht3zRU6UauJUVBGb7HAfM99_gZ8dsr3zO-Y4stW2WbsR5BpNgZW63qlDcBIRy0Mdjkj0pSEYN2_FApG25sYEI29UDUfFPMVB7FJXql0XtYso_A9P4gPTj2Rj4_VnBJLP7nKdtv5vaLSuDwkPLI9AD68rNSIl2KAvkBlAzHY_blOe67iNTET3RJN1MhdKbd8Qon_UltAMVR-2sOr0wly\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumlocalnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Coupland Dancehall is closing its doors after 120 years of providing a space for entertainment just 30 miles northeast of Austin. The dancehall announced the closure in a Facebook post on Monday. Coupland\u2019s doors will close on Oct. 11. There was no official reason given for the closing. 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