Wild Child has spent more than a decade building something that most bands never find — two voices that are genuinely better together than apart. The Austin indie-folk duo plays Colony Woodstock on Tuesday, July 28, and if you have never caught them live, this is exactly the kind of room where that changes.
About Wild Child
Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins met as hired musicians on a U.S. tour — Wilson on fiddle, Beggins on banjo and accordion — and started writing together almost by accident. Neither had written songs professionally before. What they found was that their voices and instruments did something odd and specific together: interlocking harmonies and song structures that neither could arrive at alone. Wilson has said it plainly: “Between us, we make up one good songwriter.”
That core duo eventually expanded into a full ensemble adding cello, keyboards, bass, drums, and trumpet — filling out what had started as spare acoustic folk into something warmer, fuller, and harder to categorize. NPR, Paste, and Pop Matters all praised the results. Their record Fools on Dualtone, tracked at Doll House Studios in Savannah, showed a band chasing the sound in its head rather than the easy one. They have appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and CBS Saturday Morning.
Both members took a mid-career detour into solo projects — Wilson built the Motown-influenced Sir Woman, Beggins launched the dream-pop project CoCo Zandi — before the pandemic brought them back together with renewed creative energy. The reunion stuck. They launched their own imprint, Reba’s Ranch Records, and earlier this year released Wild Child for Kids, a family album that grew out of Wilson becoming a new mother. The band that has always been about connection found a new way to mean it.
Support for the evening comes from Motenko.
Venue Info
Colony Woodstock sits at 22 Rock City Road — a 150-capacity bar and music venue in one of the most music-soaked towns in American history. Woodstock has been a gathering place for musicians and music obsessives for longer than most of us have been alive, and the Colony fits right into that tradition: small, focused, built for shows that matter rather than shows that scale.
A room this size fills fast. Doors open at 6:00 PM — get there early, find your spot, and give yourself time to settle in before the 7:00 PM start. The show runs until approximately 10:00 PM. Attendees under 18 are welcome with a parent or legal guardian. More at colonywoodstock.com.
For more shows across the region, browse the Hudson Valley concerts calendar.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets are $35–$40. No refunds. At 150 capacity, this one won’t last — grab yours now.