Austin: Alison Krauss & Union Station at ACL Live
September 24 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
$160
Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas bring their Arcadia 2026 Tour to ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, with tickets starting at $160.
Krauss has spent nearly four decades as one of the most decorated and influential figures in bluegrass and roots music, and the current tour supports Arcadia, Union Station’s first studio album in fourteen years and the follow-up to 2011’s Grammy-winning, chart-topping Paper Airplane. The band’s lineup is a bluegrass all-star roster in its own right: Jerry Douglas on Dobro and lap steel, Ron Block on banjo and guitar, Barry Bales on bass, and Russell Moore on guitar and mandolin, joined on the road by touring multi-instrumentalist Jacob Burleson.
Alison Krauss and Texas Bluegrass
Krauss’s Austin stop lands in a city with its own deep bluegrass roots, and the show’s mix of virtuosic picking and close vocal harmony sits squarely in a tradition that Texas pickers have kept alive for generations. That same lineage runs through the Hill Country, where Grammy-winning artist Sarah Jarosz got her start at Wimberley’s Friday night bluegrass jams before going on to make her own mark on the genre Krauss has spent a career championing.
Union Station’s live shows are known for their tight musicianship and warm, unhurried pacing, a style built over decades of playing together that has earned the band a combined shelf of Grammy Awards few acts in any genre can match. ACL Live’s intimate theater setting, with its excellent sightlines and sound, is well suited to a band built on subtlety as much as skill.
Doors open at 7 p.m. for the 8 p.m. show. ACL Live sits atop the W Austin Hotel at Second and Lavaca, with several nearby garages for downtown parking; given the high demand for this tour, early arrival is recommended.