Wilco fans, mark your calendars: The band’s biannual Solid Sound Festival is returning to North Adams, Massachusetts, on June 26-28, 2026 — and they’ve just announced a very special show to kick off the weekend. On the festival’s opening night, Wilco will be joined by U.K. folk singer Billy Bragg for the first-ever full concert of songs from their Mermaid Avenue collaboration.

The Mermaid Avenue project brought the two acts together starting in the mid-Nineties to work with a trove of lost lyrics penned by the late icon Woody Guthrie . They composed fully original melodies and arrangements for Guthrie’s words and recorded the resulting songs together, with Bragg and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy sharing lead vocal duty. The collaboration — which yielded three albums’ worth of material,

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