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Photos from Solid Sound Festival
Featuring Wilco, Mavis Staples, On Fillmore and more
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury
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Photos from this weekend’s Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, taken by Nadia Chaudhury.
Glenn Kotche’s drumhead exhibit, which looked like a jellyfish, was set up in the “Sol Lewitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective.”
Another view of Kotche’s exhibit, although now the sticks look like cigarettes. Cigarette Drum Sticks would be an awesome band name.
Nels Cline taking a photo of a small child.
Glenn Kotche, as part of On Fillmore.
One of the festival’s highlight was the Wilco Dunking Booth, which Jeff Tweedy (complete with his nudie suit jacket) and John Stirratt took part in. For $10, contestants were given three softballs and three opportunities to a hit bullseye, dropping one of Wilco’s original members into the water (with all money going to charity). Yes, the bullseye was hit, and yes, Jeff and John got wet. Not sure why Tweedy—a hardcore Chicago Cubs fan—is wearing a Brooklyn Cyclones hat, though.
See.
Two-and-a-half hours before Wilco’s set (and 45 minutes before Mavis Staples’), the crowd was let into Joe’s Field to get as close to the stage as possible. Here we are running, like the fools we are. Actually, I’m already at the front, having only knocked into one person while running. The photographer, though, lagged behind, as photographers often do.
Mavis Staples
Jeff Tweedy and Mikael Jorgensen
John Stirratt
Pat Sansone
Sansone playing with his sideproject group, the Autumn Defense.
Nels Cline playing with his sideproject, the Nels Cline Singers.
Jeff Tweedy during his solo set
The other side of Tweedy
The festival’s only disappointment: Wilco didn’t play “Kamera,” my favorite song of theirs. I’ve seen them five times and yet to have hear it played live. Oh well. They did play a lot of relatively obscure material—such as “It’s Just That Simple” and Tweedy performed a solo version of “Remember the Mountain Bed”—and seemed to be having a great time. MASS MoCA did their part, too, by being incredibly accommodating for the 5,000+ who attended.
Here’s hoping there will be a Solid Sound Festival again soon, complete with “Kamera.”
Update
We managed to get autographs from five of Wilco’s six members, who walked among the crowd throughout the weekend. Tweedy, what’s up?
Set list (in the Wilco font!), complete with Pat Sansone’s autograph. They didn’t play “Broken Arrow” and “Red Eyed/Got You,” which I assume is a medley of “Red-Eyed and Blue” and “I Got You (At the End of the Century).”