The Wildwoods
“Folk songs that feel like postcards” — from Lincoln, Nebraska to Le Poisson Rouge, July 17.
Nebraska folk-Americana trio The Wildwoods — Chloe Gose (violin/vocals), Noah Gose (guitar/vocals), and Andrew Vaggalis (upright bass/vocals) — are bringing their fourth album, Dear Meadowlark, to Le Poisson Rouge in New York City on July 17. Tickets are $26–$32, doors open at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm. The room holds this kind of music well. Don’t wait on it.
This is a band that spent the past year logging serious mileage: Americanafest, NPR Mountain Stage, Audiotree, European showcases at Celtic Connections and Your Roots Are Showing, and a run of dates across the U.S. that stretched well into fall. July 17 is the last stop on a short Northeast run before summer winds down.
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“There was something truly magical about our day at Audiotree this past spring — the warmth of the room, the kindness of the crew, and the way each song seemed to find its own space to breathe. It reminded us why we love what we do: connecting through music, live and in the moment.”
— Chloe Gose, The WildwoodsA Trio Built on the Open Road
The Wildwoods formed in Lincoln, Nebraska — Chloe and Noah Gose as the songwriting core, Andrew Vaggalis on upright bass completing the trio — and have spent the better part of a decade turning Midwestern geography into something that travels well. Their sound draws from Gillian Welch, Nickel Creek, and Andrew Bird: acoustic, intricate, harmonically rich, and built for rooms where people actually listen.
Four studio albums deep, their progression has been steady and earned. Sweet Nostalgia (2017) and Across a Midwest Sky (2019) established the template; Foxfield Saint John (2023) sharpened it; Dear Meadowlark (2025) arrived as the most complete statement yet — an 11-track love letter to home recorded in Omaha with producer Ben Brodin, reaching farther emotionally than anything they’d released before.
Dear Meadowlark is a record that sits somewhere between Gillian Welch’s plainspoken gravity and Nickel Creek’s structural precision — music that sounds simple until you realize how much craft it took to get there.
— Exposed VocalsDear Meadowlark and the Year Behind It
Dear Meadowlark was released in April 2025 and kicked off one of the band’s most sustained periods of visibility. Americanafest followed in the fall, then an Audiotree session recorded in Chicago that landed on all streaming platforms in October. Then NPR’s Mountain Stage — an institution for this kind of music — taped the trio, and that session found its way to 270 radio stations across America via MountainStage.org and NPRMusic.org.
2026 opened with the band’s first European dates: showcases at Celtic Connections in Glasgow and Your Roots Are Showing in Dublin, then Folk Alliance in New Orleans. The current Northeast run — Grand Rapids, Toronto, Burlington, Cambridge, Woodstock — closes at Le Poisson Rouge on July 17. They also returned to the studio in December to begin work on album five. This is a band in forward motion with no sign of letting up.
NPR Mountain Stage. Audiotree. Celtic Connections. Folk Alliance. Then July 17 at LPR — for a Nebraska trio, the trajectory is as clear as it gets.
— Exposed VocalsWhy You Should Go
Le Poisson Rouge is one of those rooms that scales perfectly for folk and Americana — intimate enough that the harmonies land the way they’re supposed to, with enough production to make the string arrangements breathe. The Wildwoods are exactly the kind of band built for this setting: players who’ve logged enough road time to know how to hold a room, writing precise enough that it rewards attention.
Tickets are $26–$32 for an all-ages-adjacent show (16+). The surrounding July run hits Cambridge (July 15) and Woodstock (July 16) before NYC — if you’re in the Northeast and this band is on your radar, the window is short. Grab tickets at the link below before the room fills.
The Wildwoods at Le Poisson Rouge, New York City — Friday, July 17, 2026. Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm. Tickets $26–$32. Album five is already in progress. Catch them at this level while you can.
