Garth Brooks to be honored at 'Austin City Limits' 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame Induction

Austin City Limits he will start his 50s^u anniversary year honoring Garth Brooks for his 10^u Hall of Fame Anniversary Celebration.

Brooks and his band will perform on September 5th at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. Brooks' induction from the Hall of Fame ceremony will air as an hour-long telecast Austin City Limits premieres September 28 on PBS. tickets for the event go on sale on August 2. The golden anniversary celebration will last until 2025.

The country superstar is no stranger Austin City Limits. Appeared twice during the 25^u anniversary year to open and close the season and first appeared on the program in 1990, early in his career.

“Be a part of anything Austin City Limits it 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 just over the top.”

Austin city limits The 10th Annual Hall of Fame Honors is produced by Austin PBS and proceeds benefit the public broadcaster.

Austin City Limits, which taped its pilot episode on October 17, 1974, premiered on PBS in 1975. Since its inception in 2014, the ACL Hall of Fame has honored artists who have been instrumental in the musical series' half century. The inaugural awards in 2014 honored Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Brooks' wife Trisha Yearwood was honored at 9^u annual Hall of Fame Honors last September.

Brooks is in his second year of residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The series currently ends on December 8. It also recently released the 777 Jackpot box set, a 7-CD compilation of new and older material commemorating his tenure at Caesars Palace. The $40 set, available via Ticketmaster, includes 77 songs and an 88-page custom book 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 fan chat, which originally aired on Facebook and SiriusXM, and now airs on his website and The Garth Channel on TuneIn, began 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 on Monday (July 15), giving no reason for the end.