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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Two promoters threw it together in three months; now it owns October in Austin. The Austin City Limits Music Festival debuted at Zilker Park on 28-29 September 2002, when C3 Presents founders Charlie Jones and Charles Attal - licensing the name of the PBS television institution - booked 67 bands across five stages and sold one-day passes for 25 dollars. They planned for 25,000 people; 42,000 came the first day, and a city tradition was born on the spot. The festival grew as fast as its host cit...