SOLD OUT: An Evening with The Mountain Goats and Molly Tuttle
WFUV has sold out “An Evening with The Mountain Goats and Molly Tuttle!” Thanks to everyone who purchased a ticket. VIP tickets are still available.
The intimate concert takes place on November 11 at Sony Hall, bringing these beloved and acclaimed musicians together in a convivial two-set benefit for the radio station. This autumn event, a preamble to Thanksgiving and FUV’s annual focus on gratitude, is also an opportunity to thank artists and listeners who sustain FUV’s legacy of music discovery and community.
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle and Matt Douglas are planning special arrangements for selections from their prolific catalogue, including the band’s ambitious “full-on musical” of a 23rd album, Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan, released on November 7 on their Cadmean Dawn label.
Grammy winner and guitar virtuoso Molly Tuttle’s solo set for FUV will include songs drawn from her vibrant new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, which came out on Nonesuch in August.
"WFUV have been longstanding friends and supporters of the Mountain Goats,” says Darnielle. “We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to jump in and support a station that has been so kind to us over the years."
Tickets for this station benefit have sold out, but there might be a few available via Eventbrite. Doors are at 7:15 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Sony Hall is located at 235 West 46th Street in Manhattan.
A limited number of VIP tickets are available for $500 each, which include a pre-concert VIP party and special set by Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner. For more details on the VIP ticket package, write to FUV's Theresa Lynch.
Thanks to Eventbrite and Sony Hall for their support of WFUV’s “An Evening with The Mountain Goats and Molly Tuttle,” a cozy and (mostly) acoustic concert of songs and other surprises.
[The Mountain Goats photo by Jillian Clark; Molly Tuttle photo by Ebru Yildiz]
About the Artists:
Indie folk rockers The Mountain Goats first visited WFUV in 2011, to promote their 13th album, All Eternals Deck. Fourteen years and ten albums down the line, The Mountain Goats — currently the trio of John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, and John Wurster — continue to captivate FUV’s listeners with the intelligence, honesty, and richness of their adventurous albums, exploring themes ranging from "Dungeons & Dragons" to a collapsing marriage. That output from the California-born group includes their forthcoming Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan, a theatrical tour de force about a shipwreck and sea-swept apocalyptic visions with actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, and harpist Mikaela Davis recruited as special guests. The Mountain Goats’ prodigious discography also includes 2005’s emotionally resonant The Sunset Tree, and a 20th anniversary reissue of that album, remixed at Abbey Road Studios, will be released on October 17 by 4AD.
FUV first got to know California-born, Nashville-based songwriter and guitarist Molly Tuttle as a bluegrass and Americana powerhouse, especially with her former band, Golden Highway, and her Grammy-winning albums, 2022's Crooked Tree and 2023's City of Gold. On Tuttle’s latest album, this year's So Long Little Miss Sunshine, she takes what she deems “a big departure” and steps into the pop-and-country arena with a real solo album. Not that elements of her beloved bluegrass are missing — fiddler Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show (also Tuttle’s partner) is a collaborator and Tuttle’s deft guitarwork retains those early roots.Tuttle visited the Bronx this summer for her first FUV Live session, hosted by Alisa Ali.
