What is Wilco's Solid Sound Festival?

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What is Wilco's Solid Sound Festival?

The SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL is a new festival curated by the [legendary] Chicago band Wilco. It debuts August 13 – 15 [2010] at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams, MA. The SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL is an independently promoted and ticketed three-day event of music, art, comedy, interactivity and more. Wilco headlines the weekend, in the band's only East Coast performance of the summer. This new festival also presents individual performances by all the Wilco members' side projects including Glenn Kotche's On Fillmore, The Nels Cline Singers, The Autumn Defense featuring John Stirratt and Pat Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen's Pronto.

SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL at MASS MoCA also plays host to additional musical performances, a fully programmed comedy stage, interactive installations and exhibits (including the Solid Sound Stompbox Station, an interactive guitar pedal exhibit created and demonstrated by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, a concert-poster screening demonstration, planned workshops by luthiers and more), plus film, video installations and djs. Festival attendees will have full access to the entire MASS MoCA campus, which incorporates 150,000 square feet of galleries. MASS MoCA, a renovated 19th century textile mill, is the largest center for contemporary visual and performing arts in the U.S. Art on display in the galleries during the festival includes the Sol LeWitt Retrospective (chosen #1 exhibition of the year by Time magazine), Inigo Manglano Ovalle's Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned with, Petah Coyne's Material World: Sculpture to Environment, Leonard Nimoy's Secret Selves and a new installation by Michael Oatman.

For all the details visit SolidSoundFestival.com.

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