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| Barton Springs at entrance to Zilker Park |
Once again this special get-together took place in beautiful Zilker Park on the shores of Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas on the weekends of October 2 - 4 and October 9 - 11. On these dates, the city welcomed tens of thousands of music fans from around the world.
So that's a wrap for ACL Music Festival 2015. Next year's fest is already scheduled for the weekends of Sept 30 -Oct 2 and Oct 7 -9, 2016, and some of the tickets have already gone on sale. If you need info about next year's fest check out http://www.aclfestival.com/
See y'all next year.
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| South Gate of ACL Fest on Barton Springs Road |
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| Overall view of Samsung Stage with downtown Austin skyline |
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| Photo op location |
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| Crowds enjoying ACL Fest 2015 |
Once again the crown jewel of our city's magnificent parks' system was transformed into a huge concert venue complete with 8 performance stages, a farmers market, a beer hall, a food court, and an art market. Festival goers could indulge in an array of local craft beers while dining on foods from many local eateries including Amy's Ice Cream, Austin's Pizza, Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, P.Terry's Burgers, The Salt Lick BBQ, Tiff's Treats, and Torchy's Tacos, to name a few.
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| Beer Tent This Way |
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| Relaxing at the Beer Tent |
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| Food Court |
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| Art tree and Rest area |
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| The colors of ACL Fest 2015 |
There were an estimated 75,000 people in attendance on each day of the festival and 151 different acts could be seen performing during the course of the six day festival. This year's stages were sponsored by Samsung, Homeaway, BMI, Honda, Miller Lite, Austin Ventures, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Lifeway (Austin Kiddie Limits).
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| Miller Lite Stage |
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| HomeAway Stage |
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| Honda Stage |
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| Samsung Stage |
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| BMI Stage |
Performances were staggered throughout the park all afternoon and evening during each day of the festival. Every genre of music imaginable could be heard including: rock, folk, rap, hip-hop, EDM, gospel, soul, country and pop. There was even an elementary school choir and children's performers. Pretty much anything the festival audience would want to experience was there for them.
There were world renowned acts that have been performing for many years, like Billy Idol, and Ray Benson and Asleep At The Wheel, and new acts hoping to pick up more followers, like Amason, Borns, and Lion Babe.
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| Fans enjoying one of the many acts performing at ACL Fest 2015 |
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| EDM group Flosstradamus entertains the crowd |
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| Houston, Texas soul band, The Suffers |
There were world renowned acts that have been performing for many years, like Billy Idol, and Ray Benson and Asleep At The Wheel, and new acts hoping to pick up more followers, like Amason, Borns, and Lion Babe.
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| Billy Idol |
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| Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel |
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| Garrett Borns |
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| Jillian Hervey of Lion Babe |
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| Amanda Bergman of Amason |
This year's headlining acts included Foo Fighters, Disclosure, Drake, Deadmaus, The Strokes, The Weekend, and Florence + The Machine.
Other big-name acts performing at ACL 2015 included: Gary Clark Jr, Hozier, Walk The Moon, A$AP Rocky, TV On The Radio, Dwight Yoakam, The Decemberists, Alabama Shakes, and rising country star, Sturgill Simpson.
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| Guy Lawrence and Howard Lawrence of Disclosure |
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| Drake |
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| Julian Casablancas of The Strokes |
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| Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine |
Other big-name acts performing at ACL 2015 included: Gary Clark Jr, Hozier, Walk The Moon, A$AP Rocky, TV On The Radio, Dwight Yoakam, The Decemberists, Alabama Shakes, and rising country star, Sturgill Simpson.
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| Gary Clark Jr |
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| Colin Meloy of The Decemberists |
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| Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio |
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| Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes |
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| A$AP Rocky |
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| Andrew Hozier-Byrne of Hozier |
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| Sturgill Simpson |
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| Misterwives |
While it would be impossible to show you everything that took place on those 6 jam-packed fun-filled days, here are some of the scenes Limelight Images captured during ACL Fest 2015.
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| Jesse Lacey of Brand New |
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| Joshua Tillman of Father John Misty |
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| Alejandro Rose-Garcia of Shakey Graves |
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| Tame Impala |
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| Chance The Rapper |
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| Sydney Sierota of Echosmith |
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| Of Monsters And Men |
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| Ryn Weaver |
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| Ben Howard |
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| Mike Kerr of Royal Blood |
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| Rupert and Henry Stansall of The Ruen Brothers |
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| Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph of Twenty-one Pilots |
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| Vance Joy |
Happily mother nature cooperated for the 2015 ACL Fest. No rain, just sun, sun, and more sun. It might have been a little toasty on a few of the days, but I know music fans weren't complaining as they all soaked in as much awesome music as humanly possible.
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| Festival Atmosphere |
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| Fans rest under the shade of one of Zilker Park's mighty oaks |
So that's a wrap for ACL Music Festival 2015. Next year's fest is already scheduled for the weekends of Sept 30 -Oct 2 and Oct 7 -9, 2016, and some of the tickets have already gone on sale. If you need info about next year's fest check out http://www.aclfestival.com/
See y'all next year.
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| ACL Fest 2015 |
Thanks for the photos and the memories...always enjoy your work !!!
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