Austin City Limits Fest Grows with Plant, Krauss

Posted by amyclark on 08/24/2008
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4/15/2008 Webb CMT Music Award winners Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are among the headlining acts for the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival.  Other Country Music acts announced today include Asleep at the Wheel, Shooter Jennings, and Bobby Bare. More than 125 acts will perform at Zilker Park over three days (September 26-28). Also on the bill are Manu Chao, David Byrne, the Raconteurs, the Mars Volta, Gnarls Barkley, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, N.E.R.D., Tegan & Sara, Iron & Wine, G. Love & Special Sauce, Neko Case, Band Of Horses, Silversun Pickups, Gogol Bordello, Gillian Welch, the Black Keys, Against Me!, Spiritualized and Duffy, according to Billboard. The line-up boasts several acts with a Texas connection, among them Erykah Badu, Robert Earl Keen, Patty Griffin and Roky Erickson. Three-day passes are available for $170, including fees and a print-at-home option, at ACLfestival.com (http://www.aclfestival.com). Austin City Limits was the fourth-ranked festival in the world in 2007, based on its gross of $11.3 million and attendance of 225,000 from three sold-out days, according to Billboard Boxscore.