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Capitalizing on the spectacular marketing potential, tickets to new dates on the North American leg of his After Hours tour will go on sale Monday.
An Austin date on April 18, 2022, is among the new stops added to the tour, which was originally scheduled for 2020, then rescheduled to 2021 before being pushed to next year.
The Weeknd show is the first announced concert at the Moody Center, the new arena that will replace the Frank Erwin Center. A representative from the Moody Center, which is slated to open next spring, said that while this is the first concert announcement for the new space, it is not the Moody Center s grand opening event. Details about that event will be announced at a later date.
2021 music festivals are in flux as pandemic rages
Fort Worth’s Fortress Festival has been canceled, and SXSW has moved online.
Fans gathered to watch Run the Jewels perform at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in October 2017. The festival, which was canceled in 2020, is still tentatively set to commemorate its 20th anniversary Oct. 1-3 and 8-10.(Thao Nguyen / Special Contributor)
As COVID-19 rages on and vaccines roll out slowly, some music festivals have scrapped their 2021 events while others are penciling in dates for the fall.
On Tuesday, promoters announced that the Fortress Festival had been canceled for the second year in a row. Founded in 2017, the eclectic Fort Worth festival was slated for April but is now scheduled to return in the spring of 2022. Ticketholders will be automatically refunded.
Austin City Limits aired for the first time on Jan. 2, 1975. A stripped-down take on the musical variety show,
ACL shed that glamour, glitz and cheeky comedy of the 1960s musical television offerings. Originally intended to promote the artists and music of Texas, the show has now become a major platform for artists of all genres and locations, solidifying Austin as a musical mecca in its own right.
From its first show which featured Austin s own outlaw country star Willie Nelson
Austin City Limits hasn t worried about appeasing traditionalists with its selection of stars and performers. In its 40-plus years on air,
Deborah Sengupta Stith
Mobley “A Home Unfamiliar.” One month into the lockdown, pop composer Mobley tapped a community of artists whose lives had just been upended to create quick turnaround audio and video works conceptually guided by the piece’s title, “A Home Unfamiliar.” The stunning lineup of top Austin talent he assembled included Shakey Graves, Sabrina Ellis, Bright Light Social Hour, Deezie Brown and Kalu James working alongside local filmmakers. Collectively they created a haunting document of this moment in time that drifts between cerebral, retro, futuristic and earthly while emotionally moving from uneasiness to aggression to raw pain that will break your heart.