Austin City Limits has announced a new round of tapings, including singer and songwriter Robert Plant, who returns to the show's stage for the first time in more than a decade on March 21, and singer/multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens, who makes her ACL debut on April 25. The shows will be broadcast at a later date as part of the PBS series Austin City Limits. For information on how to get free passes to the show about a week before the taping, follow the show on Facebook and Twitter for notice of postings.

Robert Plant travels to ACL as part of his "Southern Journey," visiting the "places that gave birth to so much of the music I love," with a select run of live dates with his band The Sensational Space Shifters dubbed the "Blues…Roots and Hollers" tour. He celebrates the American South as a continuation of the eclectic soulful journey he began since leaving Led Zeppelin decades ago. Plant's Nonesuch Records debut album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, features 11 new recordings, nine of which are original songs he wrote with the band. "It’s really a celebratory record," says Plant, "powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep." Q calls it "his best solo album yet … a beautifully moving, soul-stirring, bravely genre-blurring album."

Rhiannon Giddens—singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Carolina Chocolate Drops—makes her ACL debut performing tracks from her solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, a 2016 Grammy nominee for Best Folk Album. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album features a broad range of songs from genres as diverse as gospel, jazz, blues, and country, including works made famous by Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Odetta, and Nina Simone. The album "is a showcase for Ms. Giddens's glorious voice," says the New York Times. "For all her technical control, her voice is a perpetually soulful marvel." NPR calls it "a truly astounding vocal performance."