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Karaoke inDallas
Dallas built its karaoke the convenient way: nearly every private room in one pocket off Harry Hines Boulevard, two of them facing each other across a short street, one of them open until 4am. Bar nights take care of the rest of the city.
15written up in this guide71tracked in and around Dallas
This guide walks the standouts. The full Dallas map lives in the KaraokeList app — free, kept current by the singers who use it.
The hardest question is settled in advance here. Almost all of the private-room karaoke sits within about a mile of itself off Harry Hines Boulevard: two on Emerald Street, one on Goodnight Lane, one on Royal Lane. Want a room for your group? That is where you are going.
The rest of the city sings at open-mic bars, one or two nights a week each, mostly from around 9pm. A couple of those nights come with their own names and their own hosts. And Liquid Zoo runs it every single night, so there is always somewhere to walk into with nothing booked.
4 confirmed venues
The north-west rooms
Private karaoke, booked by the hour, all within a few minutes of each other off Harry Hines.
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Gorae Karaoke
11445 Emerald St, Suite 108 · Northwest DallasEvery night, 7pm to 4am — two hours past anything else in the city. The one that solves a night which refuses to end.
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Duet K Town
11434 Emerald St · Northwest DallasDirectly across Emerald Street from Gorae, open seven nights, 6pm to 2am. Between the two, this short street is the centre of karaoke in Dallas.
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mac karaoke
2525 Royal Ln · Northwest DallasTuesday through Saturday, 6pm to 2am, closed Mondays. A few minutes east of the Emerald Street pair.
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Nozaro's
11311 Harry Hines Blvd, Ste 506 · Northwest DallasWednesday to Saturday only — 7pm midweek, 6pm at the weekend, 2am throughout.
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The bar circuit
Sign-up karaoke across the rest of Dallas. Only one runs every night; the rest are worth checking the day for.
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Liquid Zoo
2506 Knight St · Oak LawnSeven nights a week, and the only open-mic karaoke in the city that is. The default when nothing has been arranged.
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The Goat
7248 Gaston Ave · East DallasTwo named nights with two different hosts: Sound Snobs Karaoke on Wednesdays at 9pm, and Javier's Liquid Courage Karaoke on Sundays at 9:30pm.
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Pekers Bar
2615 Oak Lawn Ave · Oak LawnFriday and Saturday, 10pm to 2am. A late start, so it works as the second half of an evening rather than the whole of it.
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Sharky's Bar & Grill
17453 Preston Rd · Far North DallasThursdays at 8:30pm and Saturdays at 9:30pm, with a claimed 4TB of songs. If the problem is that nowhere has the track you want, start here.
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56 more where these came from.
We keep tabs on 71 karaoke spots in and around Dallas — this guide writes up 15. The rest are on the map in the app, next to the part that matters: what you’ll sing when the book comes around.
Emerald Street
Gorae Karaoke at 11445 and Duet K Town at 11434 sit opposite each other on a short stretch of Emerald Street off Harry Hines, and both run private rooms seven nights a week. Duet closes at 2am; Gorae keeps going until 4am.
Family Karaoke is a two-minute drive away on Goodnight Lane, open Thursday and Sunday from 7pm to midnight and Friday and Saturday from 6pm to 2am. With Nozaro's on Harry Hines itself and mac karaoke on Royal Lane, five of the city's private-room venues sit inside one small pocket of north-west Dallas.
The rest of the week
Dallas spreads its remaining karaoke thinly, and a few of the nights are genuinely unusual in shape.
Barbara's Pavillion in Oak Cliff runs Thursdays and Sundays, plus the second Saturday of each month — worth checking the date rather than assuming. Gator's on North Market Street does the weekend. Island Club on Ferguson Road runs Wednesday and Saturday, and A Step Up Lounge on Walnut Hill takes Wednesdays at 9pm.
For a single night: Sonrisas #2 on Samuell Boulevard does Fridays, and so does The Magic Time Machine up on Belt Line Road.
Questions
Where are the private karaoke rooms in Dallas?
Almost all in one pocket of north-west Dallas off Harry Hines Boulevard. Gorae Karaoke and Duet K Town face each other on Emerald Street, Family Karaoke is on Goodnight Lane, Nozaro's is on Harry Hines itself, and mac karaoke is on Royal Lane.
How late does karaoke go in Dallas?
Gorae Karaoke on Emerald Street runs to 4am nightly, which is the latest we have confirmed in the city. Most other venues, rooms and bars alike, close at 2am.
Where can I do karaoke in Dallas tonight?
Liquid Zoo on Knight Street runs open-mic karaoke seven nights a week. For a private room, Gorae Karaoke and Duet K Town on Emerald Street are both open nightly.
Is there free karaoke in Dallas?
The open-mic bar nights generally carry no cover — Liquid Zoo, The Goat, Pekers and Sharky's among them. The north-west rooms charge by the hour.
Is this every karaoke bar in Dallas?
No. This page covers the north-west pocket and the venues worth knowing first. The full verified list for Dallas lives in the KaraokeList app, with the nights each one runs.
You found the bar.
Now what are you singing?
KaraokeList keeps every karaoke song you can actually pull off — and when the list runs dry, it finds you new ones, each with a reason. The full verified list of Dallas venues is in there too.