“Austin City Limits” to Induct Garth Brooks Into Hall of Fame to Kick Off 50th Anniversary Celebration

Iconic music series Austin City Limits (ACL) will kick off its 50th Anniversary Celebration by inducting Garth Brooks into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame on September 5.  The event will take place at the Moody Theater, ACL’s studio home, in downtown Austin.  

The event is open to the public, and a limited number of tickets will be on sale August 2 at acltv.com/hall-of-fame via AXS ticketing. Like Garths’s Las Vegas residency shows, this event will be a phone-free experience. Tickets will be scanned on arrival, and all phones will be secured in Yondr cases until the end of the event.

Garth has longtime ties to Austin City Limits.  He first appeared on the program in 1990 at the beginning of his career. He returned a decade later to both open and close ACL’s milestone Season 25 with two hourlong episodes.  In 2022, Garth returned for two memorable, intimate, non-broadcast events to close Studio 6A on the University of Texas campus, where the program first started recording in 1974.

“To be part of anything Austin City Limits is and always has been an honor,” Garth said. “I am humbled and grateful to not only be a part of the 50th Anniversary, but to be inducted into the ACL Hall of Fame is over the top.”

“Garth is a special friend—there’s no one else quite like him,” said longtime ACL executive producer Terry Lickona. “He never forgets his roots, or the people who were there for him in those early days. He hit the ACL stage just as his career was taking off, kicked off our 25th anniversary season, and now almost 25 years later, it’s our turn to honor him.”

Austin City Limits taped its pilot episode on October 17, 1974, and premiered on PBS in 1975. The Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, since its inception in 2014, has honored the legendary artists who have played a pivotal role in the trailblazing music series' outstanding half-century as a music institution. The Hall of Fame has inducted over twenty artists at nine previous ceremonies, including: Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Lloyd Maines, Asleep at the Wheel, Loretta Lynn, Guy Clark, Flaco Jiménez, Townes Van Zandt, Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, Rosanne Cash, The Neville Brothers, Ray Charles, Marcia Ball, Los Lobos, Lyle Lovett, Buddy Guy, Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Alejandro Escovedo, Sheryl Crow and Joe Ely. The Ninth Annual Hall of Fame induction in 2023 welcomed John Prine and Trisha Yearwood to its ranks.