Again in October 1974, Willie Nelson helped break music tv floor by acting on the very first episode of Austin Metropolis Limits. Now, the enduring nation star is ready to headline a free live performance celebrating the present’s fiftieth anniversary.
Booked for October seventeenth at The Lengthy Heart for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas — precisely 50 years to the day from Nelson’s inaugural taping for the present — the Austin Metropolis Limits fiftieth Birthday Bash shall be a totally free present that includes performances by Nelson and the Austin-based western swing band, Asleep on the Wheel. The live performance shall be taped and highlights from it’s going to air on PBS early subsequent 12 months.
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Entry to the occasion shall be free, nevertheless it gained’t be completely open to the general public — reasonably, these wishing to attend shall be required to register for an opportunity to win tickets. Registration opened on Friday, September twentieth, and can run by means of Monday, September twenty third, at 10:00 p.m. CT. Followers who’re chosen for tickets will then be notified between September twenty sixth and twenty seventh. Register for tickets right here.
All this comes as Austin Metropolis Limits is gearing up for a star-studded fiftieth season. Past the birthday bash, the half-centennial celebrations embrace an occasion honoring Garth Brooks (taped earlier this month), and a primetime particular, ACL Celebrates 50 Years, that includes a stacked lineup of performers from the present’s historical past, set to premiere someday in 2025.
Past that, Austin Metropolis Limits has introduced the lineup for the primary half of the upcoming season, which can embrace episodes that includes Gracie Abrams, Jacob Collier, Brittany Howard, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton, and extra. The primary episode, that includes Kacey Musgraves, will air on September twenty eighth.
In the meantime, the 2024 iteration of Nelson’s Outlaw Music Competition simply got here to an in depth, however he nonetheless has a number of dates arising in Texas this fall (get tickets right here). Earlier this week, he launched a tear-jerking cowl of The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Understand??”, taken from his upcoming studio album, Final Leaf on the Tree.
