The crowd begins to gather at the 2011 Austin City Limits Music Festival (Juan Salinas/KXAN)

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Austin City Limits 2012 set for October

Music festival to happen Oct. 12 through Oct. 14

Updated: Wednesday, 21 Sep 2011, 8:02 AM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 21 Sep 2011, 7:59 AM CDT

AUSTIN (KXAN) - The dust hasn't even settled on this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival, but organizers are already getting ready for 2012.

Next year's event will be a bit later.

According to their website, ACL has been set for the weekend of Oct. 12.

Angelou Economics, an Austin-based economic development company, conducted a study that found that the ACL Festival generates more than $73 million in visitor spending and total economic impact for Austin.

Event producers, C3 Presents , estimate that 53 percent of the 2011 sold-out festival's 70,000 daily attendees come from outside Austin.