A worldwide community of super-sensitive, highly emotional music fans have been holding vigil since September 2005 for the announcement of the 2006 ACL Music Festival lineup. Their wait is finally over. With a head-spinning display of diversity and poundage, the 2006 Festival features Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, Massive Attack, Ben Harper, The String Cheese Incident, Flaming Lips, The Raconteurs, Los Lonely Boys, The Shins, Ween, and about 100 more acts. Producers offer the lineup announcement as a service to overworked music journalists everywhere, delivering a powerful and newsworthy story that any monkey with a mouse could file.
The super-heavyweights on the lineup are reason enough to put the event in a position to repeat its Pollstar Festival of the Year Award, but the remaining two-thirds of the talent offers an array of shooting stars and blooming fruit. More acts include Thievery Corporation, Matisyahu, Iron & Wine, Son Volt, Guster, Damien Rice, Calexico, the New Pornographers, to name a few.
The full lineup is available at www.austincitylimits.com, along with a colorful, action-packed video version of the lineup coming to life in the park, complete with local critters.
Artists scheduled to appear:
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Wolf Parade
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness…
Van Morrison
Sparklehorse
Centro-matic
Willie Nelson
Paolo Nutini
Marah
Massive Attack
Nada Surf
Sam Roberts
String Cheese Incident
Los Amigos Invisibles
Rocky Votolato
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Feist
Murder by Death
The Flaming Lips
Phoenix
The Black Angels
John Mayer
KT Tunstall
Anathallo
The Raconteurs
Goldfrapp
The Rocket Summer
Los Lonely Boys
Donavon Frankenreiter
Sara Hickman
The Shins
Oliver Mtukudzi & Black Spirits
Sylvia St. James and The Gospel Stars
Ween
Asleep at the Wheel
Terri Hendrix
Thievery Corporation
Buckwheat Zydeco
Trish Murphy
Ben Kweller
Husky Rescue
Patrice Pike
G. Love & Special Sauce
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
The Durdens
Matisyahu
The Subdudes
The Jones Family Singers
Gnarls Barkley
BoDeans
Sterling Lands and The Warrior Gospel Band
Damien Rice
The Greencards
Joe McDermott and the Smart Little Creatures
Cat Power and the Memphis Rhythm Band
Guy Clark
The Biscuit Brothers
Ray Lamontagne
Kathleen Edwards
Imagination Movers
Nickel Creek
The Long Winters
Elvis Perkins
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
The Stills
The New Soul Invaders
The Tragically Hip
Charlie Sexton
South Austin Jug Band
Kings of Leon
Alexi Murdoch
Greyhounds
Iron & Wine
Pierre Guimard
Star Kids Yoga
Kasey Chambers
Matt Costa
Joy Davis
Aimee Mann
Matt Nathanson
Daniella Cotton
Galactic
Okkervil River
Troy Campbell Band
The New Orleans Social Club
Ted Leo/Pharmacists
The Palm Elementary School Choir
Calexico
Benevento Russo Duo
Asheba
The New Pornographers
Randy Rogers Band
The White Ghost Shivers
Son Volt
Federico Aubele
The Gospel Silvertones
Guster
What Made Milwaukee Famous
The Anointed Voicez
Explosions in the Sky
Jose Gonzalez
Ghandaia
deadboy & The Elephantmen
Ian McLagan and The Bump Band
Melissa Reaves
The Secret Machines
New Monsoon
Claire Small
Jack Ingram
Del Castillo
Eli Young Band
Brazilian Girls
Fields
Rodney Hayden
Gomez
Lou Ann Barton
Robyn Ludwick
Stars
Beto y los Fairlanes
Peter Dawson