{"id":34277,"date":"2025-11-04T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/34277\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:33:09","slug":"acl-fest-drums-up-agreement-to-remain-at-zilker-through-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/34277\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL Fest drums up agreement to remain at Zilker through 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary singer Sting is expanding his current Sting 3.0 tour with a series of new dates in 2026, including a stop at Moody Amphitheater at Austin&#8217;s Waterloo Park on Tuesday, May 12.<\/p>\n<p>The tour, which is wrapping up its 2025 run with six more dates through November 23, will restart in Durant, Oklahoma, on May 9. <\/p>\n<p>A three-city Texas trip will include Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Irving on May 10, and Houston suburb The Woodlands on May 13.<\/p>\n<p>On the tour, Sting is accompanied by longtime guitarist and collaborator Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas (Mumford &amp; Sons, Maggie Rogers), delivering an intimate concert experience, reinterpreting his most celebrated songs and deep cuts through the lens of a tight three-piece arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>The tour pulls from a career that includes Sting&#8217;s 15 solo albums, most recently The Bridge in 2021. He recently released Sting 3.0 Live, a collection of his greatest hits.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Sting first came to fame as the frontman\/bassist and principal songwriter for The Police from 1978 to 1983, which released classic songs like &#8220;Every Breath You Take,&#8221; &#8220;Roxanne,&#8221; &#8220;Every Little Thing She Does is Magic,&#8221; and more.<\/p>\n<p>Sting was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/05\/arts\/music\/sting-the-police-lawsuit-andy-summers-stewart-copeland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sued<\/a> by former Police bandmates Stewart Copeland and Andrew Summers over alleged &#8220;digital exploitation&#8221; of their shared catalog.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Sting\u2019s Fan Club will have first access to tickets beginning on Tuesday, November 4 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sting.com<\/a>, with additional presales throughout the week. <\/p>\n<p>The general on-sale will begin on Friday, November 7, at 10 am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSTING 3.0\u201d 2026 NORTH AMERICA TOUR ITINERARY<\/p>\n<p>Sat May 09 \u2013 Durant, OK \u2013 Choctaw Grand TheaterSun May 10 \u2013 Irving, TX \u2013 The Pavilion at Toyota Music FactoryTue May 12 \u2013 Austin, TX \u2013 Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo ParkWed May 13 \u2013 Houston, TX \u2013 The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by HuntsmanFri May 15 \u2013 Atlanta, GA \u2013 Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain ParkSat May 16 \u2013 Savannah, GA \u2013 Enmarket ArenaMon May 18 \u2013 Charlotte, NC \u2013 PNC Music PavilionTue May 19 \u2013 Raleigh, NC \u2013 Red Hat AmphitheaterThu May 21 \u2013 Vienna, VA \u2013 Wolf TrapFri May 22 \u2013 Vienna, VA \u2013 Wolf TrapSat May 23 \u2013 Vienna, VA \u2013 Wolf TrapMon May 25 \u2013 Richmond, VA \u2013 Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legendary singer Sting is expanding his current Sting 3.0 tour with a series of new dates in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[578,132,134,133,11646,575,577,574,278,6534],"class_list":{"0":"post-34277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-acl-fest","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-civic-issues","13":"tag-concerts","14":"tag-festivals","15":"tag-live-music","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-parks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}