Headline VersoFest 2025 Friday Night Concert: The Wallflowers
The Wallflowers, who rose to fame behind their iconic 1996 album Bringing Down the Horse and who have continued to thrive as one of rock's most dynamic and purposeful bands in the three decades since, will be the headlining act for the VersoFest 2025 concert event. For the past 30 years, the band has stood as a unit dedicated to and continually honing a sound that meshes timeless songwriting and storytelling with a hard-hitting and decidedly modern musical attack. That signature style has been present through the decades, baked into the grooves of smash hits like “One Headlight,” “Three Marlenas,” and “6th Avenue Heartache” from Bringing Down the Horse - as well as a continued outstanding body of work present on standout albums like Breach (2000), Rebel, Sweetheart (2005), and Glad All Over (2012). In recent years, Jakob Dylan - the Wallflowers' founding singer, songwriter, and guitarist - has stepped outside the band, first with a pair of acoustic, rootsy records, 2008's Seeing Things and 2010's Women + Country, and then with the 2018 film Echo in the Canyon and the accompanying soundtrack, which saw Dylan collaborate with a host of artists classic and contemporary, from Neil Young and Eric Clapton to Beck and Fiona Apple.
