Outlaw Square is kicking off summer with the brand new Deadwood Double Shot Concert Series. Two ticketed shows sandwiching a packed summer season in Deadwood. This Friday, Mark Chesnutt takes the stage for the first one.

Chesnutt came up through the Texas honky-tonk circuit before signing with MCA Nashville in 1989, and within a decade had earned 14 number one hits, 23 top ten singles, and sold more than 12 million albums. He is a mainstay of the traditional country sound with a catalog people know by heart.

Outlaw Square sits at the corner of Deadwood Street and Main Street. The square was built in 2018, the result of a community effort to gbring Deadwood a central public gathering place. This Friday has all the potential to be exactly the kind of night it was built for: traditional honky-tonk country dance hall, under an open sky.

The series is new this summer, presented by Silverado Franklin Historic Hotel and Gaming Complex, and built around a simple structural idea: two ticketed concerts, one to open the season and one to close it, giving locals and visitors a reason to plan a weekend around Deadwood when the calendar would otherwise be quiet.

The second Double Shot show is set for September 5.
Stay tuned for the artist announcement, coming in June.

The series is designed to grow. The vision behind it is long-term: a rotating mix of acts across genres, returning each summer to anchor the season on either end. For Outlaw Square, it is a chance to build something people plan a night around, rather than just stumbing across.