Austin City Limits Music Festival
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| Austin City Limits Music Festival | |
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| Frequency | Annually |
| Location(s) | Zilker Park, Austin, Texas |
| Years active | 10 |
| Inaugurated | 2002 |
| Most recent | September 16-18, 2011 |
| Genre | Music |
| Website | aclfestival.com |
The Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Festival) is an annual three-day American music festival that takes place in Austin, Texas at the city's central public park, Zilker Park. Each year, in addition to food & art, most from local vendors, ACL Festival brings together more than 130 acts from all over the world to play rock, indie, country, folk, electronic and more on eight stages. Over 70,000 fans attend the festival each day.
Named after the legendary PBS concert series, the Festival is produced by Austin-based C3 Presents, who also produce Lollapalooza. ACL Festival celebrated its 10th Anniversary on September 16–18, 2011.[1]
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[edit] Relationship to television series
The historic Austin City Limits television series focused for many years on Texas singer/songwriters, country and folk performers, and instrument specialists. That is changing as the award-winning television series now resembles the Festival lineup and spotlights artists of every musical genre from rhythm and blues to rock, jazz, and alternative. Performers who have appeared on both the PBS show and the Festival in recent years have included:
[edit] 2011
The 10th anniversary festival took place from September 16–18, 2011. The official lineup was announced on May 17, 2011:[2]
[edit] 2010
The 2010 festival took place on October 8–10, 2010. The performers included The Eagles, Phish, Muse, The Strokes, and M.I.A.
Full list of performers:
[edit] 2009
The 2009 festival took place on October 2–4, 2009. Performers included:
[edit] 2008
The 2008 edition took place September 26–28, 2008.
Official Lineup
[edit] 2007
The 2007 Austin City Limits Music Festival occurred September 14 15, 16 in Zilker Park. Several acts, including Amy Winehouse The White Stripes and Rodrigo y Gabriela cancelled their appearances at the festival due to health reasons, the latter two on very short notice. The scheduled performance by Saturday headliner, The White Stripes was replaced by moving already scheduled Muse into the headlining slot.
Other notable moments include Friday when a propane tank was ignited and a fire broke out in the service area, burning down two trailers and several port-o-potties. Four people who were working at the festival were injured, two of them seriously. A second fire broke out on the speaker stack at the AT&T stage during Björk's set, but it was quickly extinguished and no injuries were reported.[3]
The following artists performed at the festival:
[edit] 2006
The 2006 festival took place on September 15, 16, and 17.
Ben Kweller suffered a nosebleed during his set. He attempted to stem the flow by inserting a tampon, thrown to him by an audience member, into his nostril. The tampon expanded painfully and then he removed it. Kweller performed two more songs until he had to leave the stage.[4] The next day when The Flaming Lips performed, lead singer Wayne Coyne asked the audience to throw tampons at him to help mop up his signature fake blood. It continued to rain tampons on the band for well over two songs.
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[edit] 2005
The 2005 festival took place on September 23, 24, and 25.
The 2005 Austin City Limits Festival won Pollstar's Festival of the Year Award. This was also the infamous "Dust Bowl" year where dust kicked up by the festival crowd made it difficult for audiences to breathe. The following year, sprinklers were installed in Zilker Park to remedy this problem.
[edit] Lineup
Last minute replacement acts included:
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Several acts were scheduled to appear, but cancelled due to transportation issues arising from Hurricane Rita, they included:
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[edit] 2004
The 2004 festival took place on September 17, 18, and 19.
The 2004 festival had eight stages, and, on the second day of the festival, a top attendance of 75,000 people.
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[edit] 2003
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[edit] 2002
2002 was the inaugural year of the festival. Unlike subsequent years, it was a 2-day event only.
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[edit] See also
- South by Southwest (SXSW), another music festival in Austin
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Coordinates: 30°16′3.216″N 97°46′1.776″W / 30.26756°N 97.76716°W
