Wilco founding member and frontman Jeff Tweedy is Kilkenny-bound this winter.
His appearance at St. Canice’s Cathedral on 20 November will be the fourth and final date of an all-but-sold-out Irish mini tour that features stops at Galway, Dublin and Cork in the days preceding.
Regarded as one of contemporary music’s most respected songwriters and performers, Tweedy arrives in Kilkenny with 13 Wilco albums and five solo albums in tow, most recently, his 30-track triple-album masterpiece, Twilight Overrid (September 2025).
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Now, he’s got a support act too, with fellow Chicagoan (is that a thing?), collaborator and oft-times bandmate Macie Stewart, picking up the mantle for the Irish tour.
Stewart also contributed vocals, strings and piano on Tweedy’s Twilight Override. Last March (2025), Stewart released When the Distance is Blue via International Anthem, an album that “folds prepared piano, string quartet, and field recordings into elegant expressions of nameless longing” (Pitchfork), and is “at once lulling and eerie” (New York Times).
As for tickets for the Kilkenny show, they’re a bit like hen’s teeth given the early sell-out but keep your ear to the ground closer to November, and you might strike it lucky.
