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Austin City Limits Music Festival

Friday, Sep 26 9:00a

at Zilker Park, Austin, TX

Price: $170.00 3-Day Pass, Children Under 10: Free admission

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The 7th Anual Austin City Limits Festival is Back! 3 Days, 8 Stages, and 130 Performers!

The 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival will rock Zilker Park for the seventh time with a diverse showcase of 125-plus acts over three magical days, September 26-28. Leading the charge this year are Foo Fighters, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Beck, Manu Chao, John Fogerty, David Byrne, The Raconteurs, The Mars Volta, Gnarls Barkley, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, and N.E.R.D.

In the tradition of the TV show from which the Festival was born, the three-day event has always aimed to offer musical discovery for the fans. The 2008 edition serves up a collection of acts from rock to hip-hop, blues to country, singer-songwriter to avant-garde, and all sounds in between including Tegan and Sara,
Iron & Wine, G. Love & Special Sauce, Neko Case, Band of Horses, The Swell Season, Silversun Pickups, Gogol Bordello, Gillian Welch, The Black Keys, Against Me!, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Hot Chip, Vampire Weekend, Slightly Stoopid, Duffy, and many more.

Austin City Limits Music Festival fans will also get a healthy dose of Lone Star State artists this year including Erykah Badu, Robert Earl Keen, Patty Griffin, Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler, Flyleaf, Roky Erickson, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears, and White Denim.

Three-day passes are available for $170 at www.aclfestival.com until sellout or show time. Prices are inclusive of all fees, so no additional charges will be added to the published ticket price at checkout. Festival ticket buyers also have the option of printing tickets themselves to avoid shipping fees. Admission is free for kids ten and under accompanied by a ticketed adult.

In the past two years, Austin City Limits Music Festival has given back over $1 million to its host, the Austin Parks Foundation, for Zilker Park improvements and to fund projects – like new hike and bike trails, offleash dog parks, and greening initiatives – throughout the city of Austin. “We’re thrilled to be associated with one of the country’s premier music festivals. When we combine contributions from the ACL Music Festival with the work of volunteers and the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, the impact on Austin’s parks is tremendous,” notes Charlie McCabe, Executive Director of the Austin Parks Foundation and local beneficiary of the event.

ACL Festival is committed to minimizing its environmental impact, with green initiatives once again in practice throughout Zilker Park, like biodiesel generators and eco-friendly operations in the food court. It will once again target carbon neutrality through the purchase of offsets from Green Mountain Energy Company for the CO2 emissions created by the Festival. Patrons are encouraged to get in on
the act by carpooling to Festival shuttles, biking to the grounds, recycling over the Festival weekend, and perhaps, most importantly, making changes in their everyday lives to help green the planet.

The 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival is generously sponsored by AT&T, AMD, Dell, Austin Ventures, WaMu, BMI, H-E-B, Heineken, Blackstone Winery, and Sweet Leaf Tea.

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