BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A music group that sprung from a seminal alt-country band and went on to put four albums in the Top 10 on Billboard in the 2000s will play a paid show at Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks.
Wilco, whose songs "I Might" and "Speak Into the Rose" hit the Top 5 on Billboard's Singles chart in 2011, will play "An Evening With Wilco" show at 8 p.m. June 17, it was announced.
The show format will offer two Wilco sets with a short intermission and no opening act. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets, at $40 and $45, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, March 6 at the ArtsQuest website and at the box office at 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.ArtsQuest
Tickets, at $40 and $45, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, March 6 at the ArtsQuest website and at the box office at 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.
Tour publicity says the shows will "feature material from their vast catalogue," including its 2023 album “Cousin,” its 2024 EP “Hot Sun Cool Shroud.”
It also will feature material from two reissues: an expanded three LP version of 2010’s “The Whole Love” and a deluxe nine LP/four CD box set of 2004’s “A Ghost Is Born.”
The show is the second announced in the Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks paid summer concert series.
Previously announcedwas a show by platinum-selling hit-making jam band Blues Traveler, with hit-makers Gin Blossoms and Spin Doctorsat 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
Tickets remain available for that show.
A history of successful albums
Wilco was formed in 1994 by Jeff Tweedy and other members of Uncle Tupelo after singer Jay Farrar left.
It released its debut album, "A.M." in 1995, but didn't have chart success until its sophomore disc, 1996's "Being There" and 1999's "Summerteeth," both of which were Top 75 on Billboard's overall Albums chart.
But its biggest success came with 2001's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," which had the hit "Can't Stand It" and peaked at No. 13 on the overall Albums chart and had gold record sales.
Subsequent albums "A Ghost is Born" in 2004, "Sky Blue Sky" in 2007, "Wilco (the Album)" in 2009 and "The Whole Love" in 2005 all charted in the Top 10 on Billboard's Albums chart.
"A Ghost is Born" won two Grammy Awards — Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package.
"Wilco (The Album)" produced the group's top-charting single, "You Never Know."
The group's most recent album, its 13th, was 2023's "Cousin." It peaked at No. 65, but produced the No. 3 Adult Alternative hit "Evicted."
It also released an EP, “Hot Sun Cool Shroud,” in 2024.
