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Livestream Wyatt Flores’ ACL TV Taping 9/19 @ 8 PM CT

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Red Dirt singer and songwriter Wyatt Flores makes his Austin City Limits (ACL) debut on Friday, September 19, and the legendary music series is proud to announce this performance will be livestreamed on the ACLTV YouTube Channel. ACL offers fans worldwide the unique opportunity to watch the breakout artist’s taping live in its entirety from the famed Austin City Limits stage in Austin, Texas, on September 19 at 8pm CT/9pm ET free via the ACLTV YouTube Channel. ACL is thrilled to showcase the ascendant singer-songwriter performing highlights from his breakout album, Welcome to the Plains. An electric live performer, Flores comes to the ACL stage from a run of tour dates supporting Post Malone in addition to his own headlining tour. The livestream will begin promptly at 8pm CT and will only be available live. The broadcast episode will air on PBS and stream on pbs.org/austincitylimits as part of the television series’ upcoming Season 51, which premieres October 4, 2025, with a season opener featuring ten-time Grammy-winning artist and producer FINNEAS making his solo headlining debut.

Wyatt Flores’ debut album, Welcome to the Plains, takes listeners to the corner of the world that this 24-year-old country songwriter knows best—Oklahoma. A 14-song trek through tales of fiery love, small-town truths and lighthearted mortality, the album captures the grounded, sincere storytelling forged by Flores partly during his formative years in his hometown of Stillwater. “Welcome To The Plains is all about my fight to come home,” says the Mexican American artist. The project details Flores’ journey as he balances the struggle of leaving a small town versus the highs and lows of life on the road. 

Produced by Beau Bedford (Orville Peck, Shane Smith & The Saints), the album opens with the scene-setting title track, co-written by Old Crow Medicine Show bandleader Ketch Secor. Flores sketches a new take on home in the foot-stomping country-folk title tune. The album has received widespread critical acclaim and earned Flores an Emerging Act of the Year nomination at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards. 

At age 12, Flores’ sister passed him a copy of Turnpike Troubadours’ red dirt masterpiece, Diamonds & Gasoline, unlocking a love for roots music that later led to artists such as Jason Isbell, 49 Winchester and Sturgill Simpson. Flores established himself as one of country music’s most vital voices with a trio of EPs, his 2022 debut The Hutson Sessions, featuring the fan-favorite single “Please Don’t Go”; 2023’s Life Lessons and 2024’s Half Life, building a steadfast following of listeners who often heard echoes of their own lives in his honest songs. Gigs in tiny Oklahoma bars turned into packed club shows and, eventually, a contract with Island Records. 

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Live Stream FINNEAS’ ACL Taping on 8/7 @ 8pm CT

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Austin City Limits is thrilled to announce the highly-anticipated taping featuring FINNEAS on August 7 will be livestreamed worldwide via the ACLTV YouTube Channel. The gifted artist first appeared on the ACL stage in Season 45 in 2019 alongside his sister Billie Eilish and we’re thrilled to welcome FINNEAS back for his solo debut amid a sold-out world tour, showcasing songs from his sophomore solo album For Cryin’ Out Loud! 

ACL offers fans worldwide the unique opportunity to watch his taping live in its entirety from the famed Austin City Limits stage in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, August 7 at 8pm CT/9pm ET free via the ACLTV YouTube Channel.  The livestream will begin promptly at 8pm CT and will only be available live. The broadcast episode will air this fall on PBS and stream on pbs.org/austincitylimits as a highlight of the television series’s upcoming Season 51. 

Celebrated singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer FINNEAS has quietly emerged as a ubiquitous presence in popular music and culture. He achieved stratospheric success for his groundbreaking work with his sister Billie Eilish, including a history-making ten Grammy Awards for his work with her. His impact has also reverberated through film and television, whether it be writing Academy Award-winning songs for blockbuster films Barbie and No Time To Die or composing original scores for Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ series Disclaimer and HBO Max’s The Fallout, Vengeance, and more. 

FINNEAS introduced a heartfelt and hypnotic style for his 2019 debut solo outing, Blood Harmony, an EP highlighted by the gold-certified “Let’s Fall in Love for the Night.” 2021 saw him unveil his full-length debut, The Optimist, on Interscope Records. A restless creative, FINNEAS is always challenging himself. It’s why he opted to gather a handful of friends, head to the studio as “a band,” and make his second full-length solo album, For Cryin’ Out Loud!  He set the stage for the record with the title track which Rolling Stone hailed “…the work of a popcraft savant with a light, versatile touch.”

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Live Stream MJ Lenderman & the Wind’s ACL Taping on 7/1 @ 8pm CT

MJ Lenderman & the Wind make their Austin City Limits debut on Tuesday, July 1, and the legendary music series is proud to announce this highly-anticipated performance will be livestreamed on the ACLTV YouTube Channel. ACL offers fans worldwide the unique opportunity to watch MJ Lenderman & the Wind’s taping live in its entirety from the famed Austin City Limits stage in Austin, Texas, on July 1 at 8pm CT/9pm ET free via the ACLTV YouTube Channel. ACL is thrilled to showcase the ascendant singer-songwriter and his five-piece band ahead of the 4th of July, lighting up the ACL stage with highlights from his acclaimed Manning Fireworks. Lenderman recently received a trio of 2025 nominations for the album from the Americana Music Awards, leading the pack with top honor nods for Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Emerging Artist of the Year.  The livestream will begin promptly at 8pm CT and will only be available live. The broadcast episode will air this fall on PBS and stream on pbs.org/austincitylimits as part of the iconic television series’ upcoming Season 51. 

26-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist MJ Lenderman makes his ACL debut after a busy couple of years. A rock-and-roll and basketball obsessed kid growing up in the mountain town of Asheville, NC, he put out the breakthrough solo set Boat Songs in 2022; the sleeper hit piled offhanded, Southern-inflected rock on wry, laconic bangers like “Hangover Game,” “Six Flags” and “Tastes Just Like It Costs.” With its barbed little jokes, canny sports references, and gloriously ragged guitar solos, the album became one of that year’s standouts, a ramshackle set of charms and chuckles. He followed with a stellar 2024, bookended by a memorable feature on Waxahatchee’s “Right Back To It,” a magnetic duet about romantic doubt that became one of the year’s biggest indie-rock anthems, and the release of his own highly anticipated solo album, Manning Fireworks. A laser-sharp study of misfits and the mistakes they make, where sympathy and sardonicism share the same ragged rock song, the acclaimed release features thumbnail character studies: “She’s Leaving You,” a half-sneering portrait of a dad cheating his way through a midlife crisis, at least until he gets caught and blasts Clapton in a rented Ferrari en route to Vegas; “On My Knees” finds Lenderman wondering what it means to have fun in a world where so many people seem full of shit; and muses on edgelords and alpha males on the standout “Wristwatch.” Manning Fireworks topped many critics’ year-end best lists, with Rolling Stone raving, “MJ Lenderman delivers a sad-guy indie-rock gem” and named him “a budding guitar great and ace storyteller”; The New York Times calls Lenderman “A young artist with an old soul and a keen eye for observational detail that makes his canted portraits of small-town life come alive”; NPR raves, “He’s a homespun magical realist, always throwing in something off-kilter to elevate his tales of lovable losers”; and the Guardian concurs, “Far from being dude-centric, Manning Fireworks’ sad sack anthems tap into something devastatingly, purely human.” 

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Live Stream Waxahatchee’s ACL Taping on 5/19 @ 8pm CT

Austin City Limits to Live Stream Waxahatchee’s ACL Debut

Breakout artist Waxahatchee makes her Austin City Limits debut on Monday, May 19 and the legendary music series is thrilled to announce this highly-anticipated performance will be livestreamed on the ACLTV YouTube Channel. ACL offers fans worldwide the unique opportunity to watch Waxahatchee’s taping live from the famed ACL stage in its entirety on May 19 at 8pm CT/9pm ET free via the ACLTV YouTube Channel.  The livestream will begin promptly at 8pm CT and will only be available live. The broadcast episode will air this fall on PBS and stream on pbs.org/austincitylimits as part of the television series’s upcoming Season 51.

ACL is proud to welcome Katie Crutchfield, the indie musician who performs as Waxahatchee (the name of a creek she grew up near in Alabama). She’s been releasing albums as Waxahatchee since 2012 and recently scored a career high with Tigers Blood, which earned a 2025 Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album. Recorded at Sonic Ranch in the Texas bordertown of Tornillo with producer Brad Cook, the Kansas City-based Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on the album during a self-described “hot hand spell” while on tour in 2022. Tigers Blood features her most potent songwriting to date and includes the breakout single “Right Back To It,” a lo-fi gem that features southern indie-rock ace MJ Lenderman on harmony vocals and guitar, nominated for Song of the Year at the 2024 Americana Music Awards. Album highlights include the spellbinding opener “3 Sisters”; “365,” a powerful meditation on co-dependency and addiction; and “Bored,” a blazing number on diverging friendships in your 30s. Tigers Blood is Waxahatchee’s first release in four years since 2020’s acclaimed Saint Cloud, a pandemic era standout and turning point that found Crutchfield steering away from indie rock and leaning into Americana and roots music, a sound with deep ties to her southern upbringing. The road-tested artist is touring throughout 2025, including a recent Luck Ranch show with one of her primary influences, Lucinda Williams. Waxahatchee will join Willie Nelson this fall on his Outlaw Music Festival.

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Live Stream ACL & Antone’s Celebrate the Blues on 4/28 @ 8pm CT

One-of-a-Kind Taping to be Livestreamed for Fans Worldwide on Austin City Limits YouTube Channel; Watch Live on April 28 at 8pm

Legendary Austin club Antone’s celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and Austin City Limits is proud to salute this occasion, along with our own five-decade history of showcasing the blues, with ACL & Antone’s Celebrate the Blues on Monday, April 28. Austin City Limits is also pleased to announce this special taping will be livestreamed in its entirety on the ACLTV YouTube channel. This one-of-a-kind taping swaps Antone’s intimate setting for ACL’s familiar skyline backdrop and offers a murderers’ row of blues all-stars and torchbearers taking the ACL stage at ACL Live at The Moody Theater for this incredible night. Performers include Jimmie Vaughan, Sue Foley, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Charlie Sexton, Big Bill Morganfield, Lil’ Ed Williams, Grace Bowers, Bobby Rush and Lurrie Bell. These blues all-stars will be backed by an incredible 14-piece house band featuring legendary players, including ACL Hall of Famer Chris Layton, along with Steve Bell, Joe Sublett and more, all under the musical direction of Zach Ernst. Full line-up of guest performers and house band below. 

ACL offers fans worldwide the unique opportunity to watch this special taping live in its entirety on Monday, April 28 at 8pm CT free via the ACLTV YouTube Channel.  The livestream will begin promptly at 8pm CT and will only be available live. The broadcast episode will air on PBS and stream on PBS.org this fall as part of the legendary television series upcoming Season 51.

Austin City Limits presented blues acts on the series dating back to its earliest seasons, providing the first television exposure for many, including Lightnin’ Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Miss Lavelle White, B.B. King, W.C. Clark, Elizabeth Cotten and Ruth Brown. 

ACL is thrilled to celebrate a kindred long-running music institution that has played an instrumental role in Austin’s reign as “the live music capital of the world.” Antone’s “Home of the Blues” opened in 1975 as the first live music showcase on the city’s now-famous Sixth Street, and it quickly became a home away from home for a Mount Rushmore of blues musicians including Muddy Waters, Albert King, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Dixon and B.B. King – as well as a broader tapestry of American roots music. The force behind all this was club founder Clifford Antone; under his guidance, his namesake venue emerged as one of the most important blues joints and stages in the country. Throughout the venue’s remarkable five-decade run, Antone’s continued to define the present and shape the future of blues music, bolstering the careers of internationally-renowned artists including The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Doug Sahm, Charlie Sexton, Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton and many more. It remains a vital presence in the live music scene, with its legacy and influence carried forward by the next generation of trailblazing artists including Gary Clark Jr., Kam Franklin, Jackie Venson, Eve Monsees and Kingfish. Stay tuned for the broadcast episode, which will air later this year as part of ACL’s upcoming Season 51 on PBS.

“ACL & ANTONE’S CELEBRATE THE BLUES” GUEST PERFORMERS:

  • JIMMIE VAUGHAN
  • SUE FOLEY
  • CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM
  • CHARLIE SEXTON
  • BIG BILL MORGANFIELD
  • LIL’ ED WILLIAMS
  • GRACE BOWERS
  • BOBBY RUSH
  • LURRIE BELL
  • BENNY TURNER
  • KAM FRANKLIN
  • JOHN PRIMER

ALL-STAR HOUSE BAND:

  • ZACH ERNST (MUSICAL DIRECTOR & GUITAR)
  • STEVE BELL (HARMONICA)
  • RODD BLAND (DRUMS) 
  • NICK CONNOLLY (PIANO)
  • JOHN DEAS (B3 ORGAN)
  • LARRY FULCHER (BASS)
  • AL GOMEZ (TRUMPET)
  • MARK “KAZ” KAZANOFF (SAXOPHONE)
  • CHRIS LAYTON (DRUMS)
  • JOHN MILLS (SAXOPHONE)
  • JAY MOELLER (DRUMS)
  • EVE MONSEES (GUITAR)
  • DEREK O’BRIEN (GUITAR)
  • JOE SUBLETT (TENOR SAXOPHONE)

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ACL to Livestream Willie Nelson & Family and Asleep at the Wheel

Austin City Limits is thrilled to announce we will stream performances by Willie Nelson & Family and Asleep at the Wheel live from Austin City Limits’ 50th Birthday Bash on October 17, 2024.

The worldwide livestream will be available on aclturns50.com and Austin City Limits TV’s YouTube channel beginning at 7pm CT on Thursday, October 17, 2024 – the 50th anniversary to the day that Willie Nelson taped the pilot taping of Austin City Limits. After a record eighteen ACL appearances, Willie Nelson will return for an outdoor celebration on the lawn of Austin’s Long Center, performing in front of the city skyline that has inspired the show’s trademark set for decades. Also performing are longtime ACL favorites Asleep at the Wheel, who not only appeared in the very first episode of ACL’s first regular season in 1976, but were featured in ten more episodes over the next five decades. Both artists are members of the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. The stream will only be available live, and performance highlights will air on PBS and stream on the PBS App in 2025. The live stream is presented by the Austin City Limits 50th Anniversary sponsors: Central Texas Chevy Dealers, Tito’s and Visit Austin.


ACL is proud to partner with Armadillo World Headquarters (AWHQ), which recently relaunched as a purpose-driven brand supporting Austin artists, to serve as the official Watch Party partner for the event. AWHQ will livestream the show at multiple venues across the city, including the newly opened Armadillo Forever space at the South Congress Hotel, Pershing and Deep Eddy Cabaret. As a legendary venue in Austin’s music history, Armadillo World Headquarters was instrumental in establishing the city’s reputation as a live music hub and was a home to hundreds of performers, including Willie Nelson and Austin’s own Asleep at the Wheel, who closed out the venue’s final show December 31, 1980. More details on Watch Parties and how to attend can be found here.