Austin City Limits is a music program on American television. Although primarily known for featuring country music, performers from folk, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll and other genres have appeared on the program. The show is a staple of PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) television stations.

Since the show first aired in 1976 it has featured hundreds of different artists. Austin City Limits is American television's longest-running program featuring concert music.

The program is taped live by local PBS affiliate KLRU on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, in Austin, Texas, the self-styled "Live Music Capital of the World," images of which are seen in the opening credits. The backdrop for the stage features a mock-up of the city skyline.

The show is affiliated with the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual live music festival at Zilker Park in Austin.

Partial list of musicians who have appeared on Austin City Limits

• Chet Atkins
• Beck
• Garth Brooks
• Jackson Browne
• Jimmy Buffett
• Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Rosanne Cash
• Tracy Chapman
• Ray Charles
• Robert Cray
• Joe Cocker
• Leonard Cohen
• Dixie Chicks
• Elvis Costello
• Fats Domino
• Freddy Fender
• Béla Fleck
• John Fogerty
• Vince Gill
• Nanci Griffith
• Guster
• Lionel Hampton
• Emmylou Harris
• Sara Hickman
• Bruce Hornsby
• Hootie and the Blowfish
• Indigo Girls
• Chris Isaak
• The Judds
• B. B. King
• Ben Kweller
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Los Lobos
• Lyle Lovett
• Loretta Lynn
• The Manhattan Transfer
• John Mayall
• Pat Metheny
• Willie Nelson, performed on first program
• Roy Orbison
• Carl Perkins
• Pixies
• Robert Plant
• Pure Prairie League
• Bonnie Raitt
• Boz Scaggs
• Earl Scruggs
• Spoon
• George Strait
• The Texas Playboys
• Hank Thompson
• Tom Waits
• Townes van Zandt
• Wilco
• Stevie Winwood

See also

• Sessions at West 54th – a shortlived PBS series that also featured music performances

External links

• PBS: Austin City Limits
• Austin City Limits Festival
• The Handbook of Texas Online