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11 photos to remember the best of ACL Fest 2023

KUT 90.5 | By KUT/X Staff
Published October 16, 2023 at 2:51 PM CDT
Crowds walk around Zilker Park during the Austin City Limits Music Festival. The city skyline is in the background.
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Around 450,000 people attend ACL every year, according to the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Did you miss ACL this year or just want to relive it? The cool fall weather, a rare annular solar eclipse and a healthy dose of artist drama made it a festival to remember.

Here are 11 photos from Zilker Park taken by KUT/KUTX photographers Patricia Lim and Renee Dominguez.

Weekend 1 (Oct. 6-8)

Little Simz, wearing a white button up and black tie, singing in front of a black and white stage backdrop.
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Rapper Little Simz performs on the first day of the festival. ACL features more than 100 performances across nine stages every year.
A performer wearing a red jumpsuit stands on stage next to a machine spouting fire.
Patricia Lim
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Actor and musician Jared Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars amps up the crowd on Oct. 8. On the second weekend, he makes headlines by bungee-jumping onto the stage.
David Grohl plays guitar on a stage with red flashing lights behind him.
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Foo Fighters headline ACL for the third time.
Odesza performs on a stage as fire shoots in front of them.
Renee Dominguez
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Odesza's show includes the band's iconic drumline.

Weekend 2 (Oct. 13-15)

Ethel Cain sings standing in the middle of a crowd of fans.
Renee Dominguez
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Ethel Cain steps into the crowd of fans during her performance last Friday.
A performer wearing a cowboy hat plays a bass guitar, their braids swinging in the air.
Renee Dominguez
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Kit Mitchell of We Don't Ride Llamas rocks her bass guitar on stage. We Don't Ride Llamas is an Austin-based band that has played together since 2014.
A performer holding a tambourine in one hand and a microphone in the other.
Renee Dominguez
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Zoe Manville of Portugal. The Man holds up a tambourine during the band's performance.
A performer wearing a striped colorful frilled outfit and sunglasses poses on stage.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O shakes her frills during the show. ACL performers and festival goers alike sport out-of-the-box outfits for the event.
Labrinth sings into a mic on a dark stage with red lights while wearing sunglasses.
Renee Dominguez
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British singer Labrinth performs on the final day of the festival.
A fan in the audience wears a sparkly silver cowboy hat.
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A festival goer wears a sparkly silver cowboy hat. ACL gets its name from the Austin City Limits PBS show, the longest-running music performance series on TV.
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