Presented by The Current
Saturday, October 18, 2025
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
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A rare, intimate evening of songs & storytelling by acclaimed musician Dan Wilson, along with an opening set by Humbird, known for her genre-blending mix of indie folk, rock, and Americana.
Words & Music by Dan Wilson is an incredibly special evening of songs and stories that pulls back the curtain on the art and practice of songwriting. Between stripped-down renditions of some of the modern-day classics he has written on his own along with such collaborators as international superstars like Adele, Taylor Swift, the Chicks, Chris Stapleton, and Carole King, Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and producer Dan Wilson shares his insights into songwriting and relates some of the key and intense moments of discovery that led to them. His double life as a musician and Harvard-educated visual artist has attuned him to the deeper questions of the creative process, one of the reasons he has become one of the music industry’s most sought-after songwriting collaborators, producers and performers.
Dan has brought his Words & Music live series to a wide number of venues throughout the US, UK, and Europe, including: Troubadour and Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, Joe’s Pub and City Winery in New York City, St Giles Church in London, the Red Barn concert series in Northfield, and Schubas Tavern and City Winery in Chicago. Wilson has also presented Words & Music workshops at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, USC’s Thornton School of Music, and Berkelee School of Music.
It feels good to be right. We crave the satisfaction, the ease. But what about when you're not so sure? When you're unsteady, angry, swayable, and doing your damned best anyway?
There's something refreshingly humane about that uncertainty; about having the guts to try, even if you might be wrong. This is the central tenant of Humbird's third full-length album, Right On, a radical ethos in this soap-box age, and an effort worth turning up the amps for, resulting in the project's most electric, playful, mettled record yet.
Siri Undlin (the songwriter behind the moniker) and her collaborators tracked live and to tape over the course of two muggy weeks in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. For a collection of songs unafraid of ambiguity, it's music that bares its teeth. Anger and dismay sizzle in response to current events. Heartbreak feels like sandpaper, while wildflowers bob and sway in an ever-expanding universe.
Produced by Shane Leonard and featuring regular contributors Pat Keen (bass, synth, percussion) and Pete Quirsfeld (drums and percussion), the majority of the songs showcase the locked-in rock trio, a progression from the contemplative folk musings of Undlin's previous releases. Even so, Right On incorporates friendly winks to the more whimsical, soundscape-y improvisations that audiences have come to expect from a Humbird performance – electrified, gritty, Midwest Americana with a little magic fairy dust thrown in.
For Undlin, growing up steeped in church choirs and traditional Irish ensembles eventually led to conducting extensive folklore and musical research around the world as a Watson Fellow. That work inspired years of DIY touring around North America, including performing around the Twin Cities one backyard at a time during the pandemic. Undlin continues to expand and experiment as a writer and bandleader in a way that is fluid with each season, and oddly suited for this particular moment. Following the surprise success of the self-released debut album Pharmakon and the pensive reflections of 2021's Still Life, Right On is the next iteration in her process of witnessing the world in all its complexity and responding with candid consideration.
For loyal fans and new listeners alike, Right On is a mischievously kind offering: a whole heap of songs that are unafraid to bask in the perfectly ordinary and also excruciating possibility that sometimes we're right, often we're wrong, but no matter what, music can meet us where we're at and keep us company along the way.
