Wilco’s 2026 Solid Sound Festival to Feature Breeders, Gang of Four, First-Ever Live Performance of ‘Mermaid Avenue’

Wilco‘s annual eclectic Solid Sound Festival has revealed the full line-up for the 2026 edition at the Mass Moca museum in North Adams, Mass., a three-day event (June 26-28) that will feature headlining sets from the hosts, as well as performances from the Breeders, Gang of Four, Billy Bragg, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, Rich(ard) Dawson, S.G. Goodman, L’rain, Mini-Mekons (featuring Sally Timms and Jon Langford), Sharp Pins and Nels Cline’s Consentrik Quartet.

Most exciting for the host band’s longtime fans, next year’s festival will feature the first-ever live joint performance of Wilco and Bragg’s beloved two-volume set of Woody Guthrie songs on Friday night, dubbed “Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key: Wilco and Billy Bragg Perform the Songs of Mermaid Avenue.” The first volume, 1988’s Mermaid Avenue, featured the two acts collaborating to bring to life previously unheard lyrics written by folk icon Guthrie, which the unlikely pair turned into such beloved tracks as the gentle ballad “California Stars,” the rocking “Hoodoo Voodoo” and the moving “At My Window Sad and Lonely.”

A second album, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, was released in 2000 and featured a take on a 19th century gospel standard, “Blood of the Lamb,” as well the playful “My Flying Saucer,” swaying “Secret of the Sea” and the fiery “All You Fascists.” Both albums were critically acclaimed, but Wilco and Bragg never toured the collections.

As usual, Solid Sound will feature multiple headlining sets from Wilco and its band members in various independent and solo configurations, as well as Elizabeth Moen, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, George, Souled American, Autumn Defense, Living Hour, Setting, RESPIRA, Prewn, Official Claire, Expandards and more.

The event will also host comedian John Hodgman’s Comedy Cabaret, with sets from Jo Firestone, Demi Adejuyigbe and the Daily Show‘s Jordan Klepper, as well as poster silk screening demos with Ghost-Town and a screening of a new documentary about jazz pianist/producer Bob James from Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen.

In addition to folk, rock, jazz and experimental music, Solid Sound will also host yoga, nature hikes, pop-up record stores, children’s programming and access to the museum’s galleries, which feature work by Laurie Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, James Turrell and Sol LeWitt, among others.

Tickets for the 2026 Solid Sound can be found here. Check out the full lineup on the poster below.