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Austin City Limits to Livestream Maggie Rose’s Season 52 Debut

Austin City Limits is thrilled to announce an exclusive worldwide livestream of two-time GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Maggie Rose’s highly anticipated Season 52 taping on Monday, August 24. One of Americana’s most acclaimed voices, the Nashville-based artist will showcase highlights from her newly released album, Half Moon, alongside fan favorites from her GRAMMY-nominated album No One Gets Out Alive.

For one night only, fans everywhere can experience Maggie Rose’s Austin City Limits debut live from Austin, Texas. Streaming free exclusively at YouTube.com/AustinCityLimitsTV and Maggie Rose’s YouTube Channel, the livestream begins at 9 p.m. ET/ 8 p.m. CT and offers music fans a rare opportunity to experience an Austin City Limits taping as it happens. ACL’s exclusive livestreams give viewers around the world a front-row seat to the magic of one of television’s most iconic music stages. 

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Available only during the live event, the full-set performance livestream offers fans an early preview of Rose’s hour-long Season 52 episode ahead of its PBS broadcast premiere, opening the second half of ACL’s expanded Season 52 in January 2027. 

A bold artistic statement embracing transformation, vulnerability and joy, Half Moon finds Rose at the height of her creative powers. Across 10 richly crafted songs, she blends Americana, soul, rock and cinematic pop into an album that is as emotionally resonant as it is sonically stunning. Produced by acclaimed collaborators Lawrence Rothman (Amanda Shires) and Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves), Half Moon builds on the momentum of Rose’s GRAMMY recognition while showcasing a fearless evolution in her songwriting. From the infectious swagger of “Red Shoes” and irresistible groove of “Weekend Lover” to the intimate reflection of “Gentle Man” and hopeful title track, the album highlights the vocal prowess that has earned Rose acclaim from Variety, which hailed her “a queen among Nashville singers,” and Rolling Stone, which called her “dazzling,” among other accolades.

Rose, who was eight months pregnant when she began creating the album, gives voice throughout Half Moon to the complexities of womanhood, the sacredness of her closest bonds and the thrill and overwhelm of expecting her first child. The trio of collaborators surrendered to a shared creative journey that Rothman sums up as “a year-long wild ride of writing, producing, crying, laughing, babies being born, and dreams coming to life.” Tashian, meanwhile, compares their creative kinship to “a bunch of kids building sandcastles on a beach and just enjoying the sunshine…We were all passengers, and the songs were taking us wherever they wanted to go.” 

After more than a decade honing her craft and building a devoted following, Rose earned back-to-back GRAMMY nominations for her acclaimed 2024 album No One Gets Out Alive and her 2025 collaboration with Grace Potter, “Poison In My Well.” She also received an Emerging Act of the Year nomination from the Americana Music Association in 2025, while Rolling Stone named No One Gets Out Alive one of the 100 Best Albums of 2024.

A dynamic live performer, Rose has shared stages with Chris Stapleton, Kelly Clarkson, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Heart and Molly Tuttle, among many others. A fixture of the Nashville music community, she has made more than 100 appearances on the Grand Ole Opry and hosts the acclaimed podcast Salute the Songbird, featuring candid conversations with some of her musical heroes.

A production of Austin PBS, Austin City Limits is the longest-running music series in television history, providing viewers a front-row seat to unforgettable live performances for more than five decades. Recorded live at ACL Live in Austin, Texas, the acclaimed series remains a cornerstone of public media, showcasing the finest in live music performance from across the musical spectrum.  Austin City Limits writes the next chapter in its remarkable 50+ year broadcast run with Season 52, premiering in September on PBS. 

Watch Austin City Limits on PBS, stream online, or through the PBS App. Follow @acltv on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter and TikTok for updates on livestreams, future tapings and episode schedules. Fans can also explore the ACLTV YouTube Channel for exclusive songs, full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and full-length artist interviews. Learn more about Austin City Limits, its programming and its history at ACLTV.com.

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ACL Season 52 Taping Pass Giveaway: Maggie Rose

*Update: Giveaway Now Closed* Austin City Limits will tape a performance by Maggie Rose on Monday, August 24th at 8 pm at ACL Live at The Moody Theater (310 W. 2nd Street, Willie Nelson Blvd). Austin City Limits Taping Giveaways are presented by AXS Events.

Winners will be chosen at random and a photo ID will be required to pick up tickets. Winners will be notified via email. Duplicate entries for a single taping will be automatically voided. Tickets are not transferable and will be voided if sold. Standing may be required. No photography, recording or cell phone use in the studio. No cameras, computers or recording devices allowed in the venue. While we do our best to accommodate all winners, we cannot guarantee admission. These passes are based on space available therefore you will be filling in spots available on the floor or balcony depending on the tickets that are available when you arrive. Read our helpful Know Before You Go guide for more information.

Austin City Limits is thrilled to welcome Maggie Rose to the stage for the first time. The acclaimed singer-songwriter’s highly anticipated new album Half Moon arrived August 14th. The collection is a creative high point in Rose’s artistic evolution, pairing the confidence of a seasoned performer with a renewed sense of vulnerability and creative freedom. Written and recorded in collaboration with Lawrence Rothman and Daniel Tashian, Half Moon emerged from a series of intimate writing sessions that yielded songs rich in emotional depth and musical texture. “We’d leave each session with these beautiful, fully conceived demos, and after a few songs it became apparent that something special was happening,” says Rose, who was eight months pregnant at the outset of the album’s creation. Featuring lush string arrangements, warm horn sections, and Rose’s commanding vocals, the album reflects a newly expanded emotional landscape inspired in part by motherhood and personal transformation. 

After more than a decade honing her craft and building a devoted following, the Nashville-based artist has emerged as one of Americana’s most celebrated voices. Rose earned back-to-back Grammy nominations for her acclaimed 2024 album No One Gets Out Alive and her 2025 collaboration with Grace Potter, “Poison In My Well,” and received an Emerging Act of the Year nomination from the Americana Music Association in 2025. Rolling Stone named No One Gets Out Alive one of the 100 Best Albums of 2024, while Variety hailed Rose as “a queen among Nashville singers.” A dynamic live performer, Rose has shared stages with Chris Stapleton, Kelly Clarkson, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Heart, and Molly Tuttle, among many others. A fixture of the Nashville music community, she has made more than 100 appearances on the Grand Ole Opry and hosts the acclaimed podcast Salute the Songbird, featuring candid conversations with some of her musical heroes. 

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Austin City Limits to Livestream Sienna Spiro’s Season 52 Debut Worldwide

Iconic television music series Austin City Limits is thrilled to announce an exclusive worldwide livestream of breakout British singer-songwriter SIENNA SPIRO’s Season 52 taping on Wednesday, July 15. Making one of the year’s most anticipated ACL debuts, the 20-year-old London-based artist has rapidly become one of music’s most compelling new artists. SIENNA will showcase songs from her newly released debut album, Visitor.

For one night only, fans around the globe can experience SIENNA’s Austin City Limits debut live from Austin, Texas. Streaming free exclusively on YouTube.com/AustinCityLimitsTV beginning at 9 p.m. ET/ 8 p.m. CT, the broadcast offers a rare opportunity to watch an Austin City Limits taping as it happens. The full-set performance will be available exclusively during the live event. 

The livestream offers fans an early preview of SIENNA’s hour-long Season 52 episode before its broadcast premiere this October on PBS as part of ACL’s expanded Season 52. Episodes also stream on the PBS App and at pbs.org/austincitylimits. Follow @acltv on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter and TikTok for updates and exclusive behind-the-scenes content. 

A show-stopping vocal talent with an uncompromising artistic vision, SIENNA SPIRO transforms deeply personal emotion into something communal and cathartic. Since breaking through in 2025 with the global Platinum certified hit “Die On This Hill,” the singer-songwriter has captivated audiences with soul-baring songs exploring love, loss and vulnerability, pairing her breathtaking voice with a sophisticated blend of soul and symphonic pop. 

Though SIENNA has been making music since the age of 10, her rise has been swift. Within month she sold out her first North American headline tour in seconds, earned a coveted BRIT Awards Critics’ Choice shortlist nomination, starred Gap’s holiday campaign, and made her U.S. late-night television debut performing “Die On This Hill” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Critical acclaim quickly followed, with praise from Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, NYLON, V Magazine and more, while Variety hailed her as “one of the greatest voices of her generation.” By early 2026, in a testament to the extraordinary power of her songcraft and voice, SIENNA simultaneously landed three singles on the Billboard Hot 100 —”Die On This Hill,” “You Stole The Show” and “The Visitor”—all ahead of the July release of her debut album. 

Out now via Capitol Records, Visitor is a striking opening statement exploring the fragility of life and love through lush orchestration, cinematic arrangements, and deeply emotional songwriting. The candid and elegantly crafted collection finds SIENNA collaborating with an elite roster of producers and orchestral composers in legendary studios including Electric Lady in New York, Abbey Road in London, and Valentine Recording Studios in Los Angeles. The album earned glowing reviews: Variety called Visitor “a collection rich in heartache and high points … when a woman who sounds like she could huff and puff and blow all our houses down confesses to multiple layers of vulnerability, we stop and pay attention.” Rolling Stone deemed “Mono No Aware” a “Song you Need To Know” and said, “The true constant on the album is that SPIROsounds beautiful. She showed up to sing [with] an intensity that shows how emotionally invested she is in the stories she’s sharing.” SPIN said “[SPIRO’s] music is autobiographical, emotionally charged and arranged in a way that feels like it’s from a bygone era,”while Vogue, dubbed SIENNA a “timeless talent … one of the most in-demand new names in music.”  

Following her full-set debut on the Austin City Limits stage, SIENNA will appear at major festivals including Lollapalooza, Newport Jazz Festival, All Things Go, Outside Lands and Austin City Limits Music Festival. After that, she launches her “My House” World Tour, which sold out almost instantly across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, prompting additional dates that also immediately sold out. View the full itinerary here. 

A production of Austin PBS, Austin City Limits is the longest-running music series in television history, providing viewers a front-row seat to unforgettable live performances for more than five decades. Recorded live at ACL’s studio home, ACL Live in Austin, Texas, the acclaimed series remains a cornerstone of public media, showcasing the finest in live music performance from across the musical spectrum.  Austin City Limits writes the next chapter in its remarkable 50+ year broadcast run with the upcoming Season 52.

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Austin City Limits Announces Season 52 Taping with Olivia Rodrigo 

Austin City Limits is thrilled to welcome back three-time GRAMMY Award-winning, multi-platinum singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo for a taping  on Wednesday, July 29. Five years after making her ACL debut as an 18-year-old in her first full-set performance before a live audience, Olivia Rodrigo returns to the ACL stage as one of the defining artists of her generation. She returns with the first full-set performance of her acclaimed new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.

you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking Rodrigo’s remarkable third consecutive No. 1 album. The acclaimed collection includes the chart-topping single “drop dead,” which made Rodrigo the first artist ever to debut the lead single from each of her first three albums at No. 1, and “the cure,” which topped multiple Billboard rock and alternative charts. 

Rodrigo recently celebrated another career milestone at Spotify’s Billions Club Live, honoring the extraordinary achievement of nine songs surpassing a billion streams each. She also debuted the new song “what’s wrong with me,” featuring Robert Smith of The Cure, during a surprise performance at Primavera Sound. This fall, she’ll launch her sold-out Unraveled Tour, which has already sold more than one million tickets worldwide and expanded to multiple record-setting arena residencies in New York, Los Angeles and London.

Rodrigo’s meteoric rise has reshaped contemporary pop music. With more than 36 million albums sold worldwide, she has earned fourteen GRAMMY Award nominations, and three GRAMMY wins, including Best New Artist. Her debut SOUR and its follow-up GUTS both debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, while her record-breaking GUTS World Tour concluded in 2025 after 100 sold-out arena shows across 21 countries, earning Rodrigo Billboard’s Touring Artist of the Year honor. Austin City Limits is thrilled to welcome her back to the ACL stage.

Want to be part of the audience? Information on how to enter a giveaway to obtain free passes will be posted one week prior to the taping. Follow ACLTV on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter and TikTok for updates. 

The hourlong broadcast episode will premiere and stream this fall on PBS as part of Austin City Limits historic Season 52, the first in the series’ more than 50-year history to feature full-hour episodes devoted to every artist. The full Season 52 broadcast line-up will be announced shortly; fans can visit acltv.com for updates on upcoming Season 52 tapings, live streams, and episode schedules. The episode will also stream on the PBS App and at pbs.org/austincitylimits. 

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Billy Strings’ Exclusive Austin City Limits Season 52 Taping to Stream Live Worldwide

Iconic television music series Austin City Limits (ACL) is thrilled to announce an exclusive worldwide livestream of Grammy-winning bluegrass superstar Billy Strings’ second headlining ACL taping on Thursday, July 2. The performance will showcase highlights from Highway Prayers, winner of the 2026 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, alongside fan favorites from throughout Billy Strings’ celebrated catalog.

For one night only, fans around the world can experience Billy Strings’ Austin City Limits Season 52 taping live from Austin, Texas. The exclusive livestream on July 2 features two full 60-minute sets with a 20-minute intermission, offering an extended evening of music rarely seen outside the ACL studio. Fans can tune in live and free at YouTube.com/AustinCityLimitsTV beginning promptly at 9 p.m. ET/ 8 p.m. CT. The livestream will feature the complete performance as it happens and will be available exclusively during the live broadcast. 

The exclusive livestream offers fans an early look at Billy Strings’ Season 52 performance ahead of its hour-long broadcast premiere this fall on PBS. The episode will also stream on the PBS App and at pbs.org/austincitylimits as part of Austin City Limits’  expanded Season 52. Fans can follow ACLTV on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter and TikTok for updates and exclusive content. 

Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician Billy Strings returns to the ACL stage following another landmark year. His latest full-length album, Highway Prayers was named Best Bluegrass Album at the 2026 Grammy Awards, marking his second consecutive win in the category and third overall. Produced by Strings and Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Mac Miller, Aimee Mann) and released via Reprise Records, the album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales chart, the first bluegrass album to achieve the feat in more than two decades. The record has drawn widespread acclaim, with GQ calling Strings “the hottest roots-music phenomenon in decades” and Pitchfork praising, “the bluegrass wunderkind expands his palette, exploring new textures and emotional registers while staying true to his beloved genre.” 

Following Highway Prayers, Strings released an exclusive Apple Music Nashville Sessions EP featuring reworked songs from the record as well as the surprise collaborative album Live at the Legion with bluegrass virtuoso Bryan Sutton. Recorded live at Nashville’s American Legion Post 82, the project captures the duo performing 20 traditional bluegrass and folk songs, including new renditions of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” and Doc Watson’s “Way Downtown.”

Born in Michigan and now based in Nashville, Strings has emerged as the genre’s new superstar, blending bluegrass traditions with influences from rock, jazz and psychedelia. Since his 2017 debut, he has received numerous accolades, including Best Bluegrass Album at the 63rd, 67th and 68th Grammy Awards, Artist of the Year at the 2022 and 2023 Americana Music Awards, Entertainer of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Awards in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025, and Pollstar Awards’ Breakthrough Artist of the Pandemic in 2021 and Best New Headliner in 2022. 

An electrifying live performer, Strings is currently in the midst of an extensive headline arena tour throughout 2026 and will join Willie Nelson for his annual Fourth of July picnic. He made his ACL debut in Season 47 (2021), and returned for the series’ 50th Anniversary celebration in 2024. 

A production of Austin PBS, Austin City Limits is the longest-running music series in television history, providing viewers a front-row seat to unforgettable live performances for more than five decades. Recorded live at ACL’s studio home, ACL Live in Austin, Texas, the acclaimed series remains a cornerstone of public media, showcasing the finest in live music performance from across the musical spectrum. Austin City Limits writes the next chapter in its remarkable 50+ year broadcast run with the upcoming Season 52.

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ACL Season 52 Taping Pass Giveaway: Billy Strings

*UPDATE: GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED* Austin City Limits will tape a performance by Billy Strings on Thursday, July 2nd at 8 pm at ACL Live at The Moody Theater (310 W. 2nd Street, Willie Nelson Blvd). Austin City Limits Taping Giveaways are presented by AXS Events.

Winners will be chosen at random and a photo ID will be required to pick up tickets. Winners will be notified via email. Duplicate entries for a single taping will be automatically voided. Tickets are not transferable and will be voided if sold. Standing may be required. No photography, recording or cell phone use in the studio. No cameras, computers or recording devices allowed in the venue. While we do our best to accommodate all winners, we cannot guarantee admission. These passes are based on space available therefore you will be filling in spots available on the floor or balcony depending on the tickets that are available when you arrive. Read our helpful Know Before You Go guide for more information.

Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician Billy Strings returns to the ACL stage following another landmark year. His latest full-length album, Highway Prayers was recently named Best Bluegrass Album at the 2026 Grammy Awards, marking his second consecutive win in the category and third overall. Produced by Strings and Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Mac Miller, Aimee Mann) and released via Reprise Records, the album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales chart, the first bluegrass album to achieve the feat in more than two decades. 

The record has drawn widespread acclaim, with GQ calling Strings “the hottest roots-music phenomenon in decades” and Pitchfork praising, “the bluegrass wunderkind expands his palette, exploring new textures and emotional registers while staying true to his beloved genre.”

Following Highway Prayers, Strings released an exclusive Apple Music Nashville Sessions EP featuring reworked songs from the record as well as the surprise collaborative album Live at the Legion with bluegrass virtuoso Bryan Sutton. Recorded live at Nashville’s American Legion Post 82, the project captures the duo performing 20 traditional bluegrass and folk songs, including new renditions of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” and Doc Watson’s “Way Downtown.” 

Born in Michigan and now based in Nashville, Strings has emerged as the genre’s new superstar, blending bluegrass traditions with influences from rock, jazz and psychedelia. Since his 2017 debut, he has received numerous accolades, including Best Bluegrass Album at the 63rd, 67th and 68th Grammy Awards, Artist of the Year at the 2022 and 2023 Americana Music Awards, Entertainer of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Awards in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025, and Pollstar Awards’ Breakthrough Artist of the Pandemic in 2021 and Best New Headliner in 2022. 

An electrifying live performer, Strings is currently in the midst of an extensive headline arena tour throughout 2026 and will join Willie Nelson for his annual Fourth of July picnic. He made his ACL debut in Season 47 (2021), and returned for the series’ 50th Anniversary celebration in 2024. ACL is thrilled to welcome him back to the stage.