Garth Brooks to be Honored at ‘Austin City Limits’ 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame Induction

Austin City Limits will kick off its 50^th anniversary year by honoring Garth Brooks for its 10^th anniversary Hall of Fame celebration.

Brooks and his band will perform Sept. 5 at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. Brooks’ induction from the Hall of Fame ceremony will air as an hourlong broadcast of Austin City Limits premiering Sept. 28 on PBS. Tickets for the event go on sale Aug. 2. The golden anniversary celebration will last through 2025. 

The country superstar is no stranger to Austin City Limits. He appeared twice during the 25^th anniversary year to open and close the season and first appeared on the program in 1990, at the beginning of his career. 

“To be part of anything Austin City Limits is and always has been an honor,” Brooks said in a statement. “I am humbled and grateful to not only be a part of the 50th Anniversary, but to be inducted into the ACL Hall of Fame is over the top.”

Austin City Limits’ 10th annual Hall of Fame Honors is produced by Austin PBS and proceeds benefit the public television station. 

Austin City Limits, which taped its pilot episode on Oct. 17, 1974, premiered on PBS in 1975. Since its inception in 2014, the ACL Hall of Fame has honored artists who have played a pivotal role in the music series’ half-century. The inaugural awards in 2014 honored Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood was honored at the 9^th annual Hall of Fame Honors last September. 

Brooks is in the second year of his residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The run currently concludes Dec. 8. He also recently released the 777 Jackpot boxed set, a 7-CD collection of new and previously released material that  commemorates his Caesars Palace stint. The $40 set, available through Ticketmaster,  includes 77 songs and a custom 88-pagebook full of photos. Earlier this year, Brooks opened his new bar on Lower Broadway in Nashville, Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk. 

In other Brooks’ news, he plans to wrap up his weekly Monday series, “Inside Studio G,” by the end of the year. The chat with fans, which originally aired on Facebook and SiriusXM, and now airs on his website and The Garth Channel on TuneIn, launched eight years ago this month. “I think we’re going to put an end to Inside Studio G this year, probably sometime around Christmas,” he announced Monday (July 15), giving no reason for the end.