Hulu To Live Stream Austin City Limits Festival
Good news, music fans. If you cannot make it to Austin this weekend for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, the kind folks at Hulu will be streaming the festival live from Austin’s Zilker Park starting this Friday.
The Hulu live stream kicks-off at 2 p.m. (EDT) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hulu’s coverage of the weekend-long concert will feature 26 musical performances from the likes of Dave Matthews Band, John Legend, Ben Harper & the Relentless 7 and The Dead Weather, to name a few.
Fans can also watch the footage again on Monday, October 5 at 9 p.m. (EDT), as Hulu streams a highlight show with the festival’s biggest headliners
View the complete schedule here for the festival. But let’s zero in on a few of the performers.
Friday features afternoon sets by Lily Allen, Avett Brothers, Andrew Bird and Blitzen Trapper, with Kings of Leon closing day 1 when the sun goes down.
Dave Matthews Band and Ghostland Observatory are the chosen ones to wrap-up Day 2, but before that look for Mos Def, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, Cotton Jones, Alberta Cross and Sam Roberts Band to provide some excellent musical action.
The final day has Pearl Jam all by their lonesome from 8-10 pm to bring it all home, but performances prior include Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears (yes!), Dan Auerbach, Sonic Youth, Arctic Monkeys, The B-52s, The Dead Weather and Heartless Bastards. That’s a solid list right there.
Hulu is set to stream live content from more than 20 acts over three days (plus Monday’s highlights show), so those who aren’t trekking out to Austin can still enjoy the show.
Here’s another (very) cool feature courtesy the ACL fest Blog: download a free digital sampler from iTunes featuring 16 artists from this year’s lineup. The digital sampler is available for free at iTunes with a redemption code.
ACL Festival Sampler
- Bassnectar – art of revolution
- Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears – boogie
- Dr. dog – the ark
- Heartless Bastards – out to sea
- K’naan – wavin flag
- Los amigos invisibles – mentiras
- Medeski, Martin & Wood – flat tires
- Mishka – 3rd eye vision
- Sarah Jaffe – ever born again
- The Dexateens – granddaddy’s mouth
- The dodos – fables
- The Felice Brothers – run chicken run
- The Knux – bang! bang!
- The Walkmen – on the water
- Thievery Corporation – mandala (feat. anoushka shankar)
- Todd Snider – don’t tempt me
If you will not be in Austin for the weekend, will you watch the footage on Hulu?
