Austin City Limits Music Festival 2013

Austin City Limits Music Festival

Austin City Limits Music Festival in Zilker Park

Zilker Park took center stage once again at the 12th annual Austin City Limits Music Festival.  Last weekend marked the first of 2 consecutive weekends, October 4-6 and October 11-13, with both weekend line-ups being virtually identical.

ACL Music Festival 2013

Austin City Limits Music Festival entertains a crowd of about 75,000 each day.  Headliners this year included Muse, The Cure, Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, Artic Monkeys, Wilco, Phoenix, Eric Church, Depeche Mode,  FUN,  The Black Angels, The National,  Dawes, Franz Ferdinand, Kendrick Lamar, Kings of Leon, Atoms for Peace,  and Lionel Richie.  The ACL Festival takes place on 8 stages, throughout the 3 day weekend with over 130 bands.

ACL-Schedule-Weekend-Two

ACL Weekend 2 Schedule

Buy a Home Near Zilker Park

Zilker Park touches  3 different areas in the Austin Multiple Listing Service.  Currently, within a 1 mile radius of Zilker Park and the ACL Music festival, there are 11 Active single family houses in the Austin Real Estate market ranging from $365,000 for 650 square feet and $2.4 million for 5,286 square feet of living space

The ACL Music festival draws attention to Austin from all over the globe with the variety of artists performing.  Visitors travels to Austin from all over the world to attend.  Many of the performances will be streamed live on YouTube for many to enjoy from the comfort of home.

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2012

The Austin City Limits Music Festival began Friday, October 12th as 75,000 people began to enter Zilker Park to the theme from Star Wars.  The ACL Music Festival, now celebrating its 11th year, brings world-wide attention to Austin, Texas as the festival plays host to 130 bands over the course of 3-days on 8 stages.

ACL Music Festival

An estimated 220,000 attendees were at the ACL Music Festival, while many more were able to enjoy the bands from home this year through a live YouTube which covered 2 stages simultaneously, so viewers could choose which act to watch.  Like year’s past, the Austin City Limits Music line-up included something for everyone.  ACL Festival 2012 headliners included: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Roots.

ACL Festival brings Austin to Center Stage

Austin’s local economy certainly gets a boost during the ACL Festival to the tune of about $73 million which includes revenue from hotels and restaurants.  The Austin City Limits Music Festival supports the Austin economy in the long term as well, by giving out-of-town guests an additional reason to move here and call it home.  Here are some direct pages to specific Austin homes for sale near Zilker Park in the Barton Hills neighborhood, the Central Austin area, condos in zip code 78704 and of course Downtown.

Austin City Limits 2011

The Austin City Limits Music festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in Zilker Park.  Roughly 75,000 people were in attendance on each day of the 3-day festival setting a record.  The Austin City Limits Music Festival draws visitors and musicians to Austin from all over the world.  This year the ACL music festival not only benefited the local economy, but also through donations made for wildfire relief efforts as well.

According to the Austin City Limits Festival website, attendees and The Do Good Bus raised $20,826.90 for The Red Cross and The Texas Wildfire Relief Fund. In addition, C3 Presents matched Friday’s donations for a grand total of $35,088.10.

The ACL Music Festival moves to cooler weather next year during the weekend of October 12, 2012.

Austin Real Estate Close to Zilker

Looking to live close to Zilker Park?  Here is a link to houses and condos for sale close to Zilker Park.  I can also set up a customized search to send you homes specific to your needs.

Austin City Limits Music Festival sells Austin to future homeowners

The Austin City Limits Music Festival is an event for all of Austin, not just music lovers. Now in its nineth year, it has been reported that ACL will generate over $80 million for the city, of which $51 million will come from visitors.  Austin will host an average of 65,000 guests per day, most if not all; will be visiting Zilker Park where the event is held.  Those visitors will be staying in hotels, dining out, shopping and going to nightclubs, taking in everything Austin has to offer.

Real Estate sales are always interesting this weekend.  People often get sold on Austin this weekend, which generates home sales in the future when visitors ultimately decide to call it home.  Serious buyers will take a break from the music and will be shopping, simply because time is of the essence.  The Barton Hills, Zilker, SoCo, City of West Lake Hills and downtown, Austin areas will take center stage in terms of real estate, as visitors drive around exploring the shops and eateries thinking about what it would be like to actually live in the area, as they pass a house for sale.

Will it be a big open house weekend?  No.  Again, this is a weekend for serious buyers, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t a big real estate weekend.  The Austin City Limits Music Festival helps sell Austin to future buyers, who will decide to stop visiting and one day call it home.