For their Solid Sound Festival gig on Friday June 21, Wilco will perform a first-ever live set comprised 100% of fan requests. The band will take submissions ahead of time and choose 50 songs from those submitted for the band to learn. Then Wilco will randomly pick from those live on stage that night. As a bonus, they’ll do some in real time submitted via Twitter; then to top it off, a bit of "Stump the Band" with John Hodgman standing in for the late great Johnny Carson, giving those in the audience a chance to request songs live.
Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival is a three-day celebration of music, comedy, art and community held at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in the scenic small town of North Adams in The Berkshires of Western MA. Envisioned by Wilco and presented in collaboration with MASS MoCA, the weekend features two headlining Wilco concerts, a comedy cabaret programmed and hosted by John Hodgman, additional musical performances on four stages selected by Wilco and including Wilco-related side projects, a wide array of all-ages programming, and of course, world-class modern art. This year’s festival taking place June 21-23, 2013 also includes:
Story Pirates
Os Mutantes
Al Madrigal
Foxygen
Jen Kirkman
John Hodgman
Low
Lucius
"Border Music" featuring Marc Ribot & David Hidalgo
Mark Mulcahy
Medeski, Martin & Wood with Special Guests
Mikael Jorgensen & Greg O’Keeffe
Neko Case
Nels Cline & Julian Lage
Reggie Watts
Sam Amidon
The Autumn Defense
The Blisters
The Dream Syndicate
The Relatives
White Denim
Wilco
WYNC’s Radiolab with a live soundtrack by On Fillmore
Yo La Tengo
