Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold scores forthcoming play ‘Wyoming’

Robin Pecknold - the lead singer of Fleet Foxes - has written an original score for ‘Wyoming’, a play set to run in New York later this month. A production by Lesser America, the Off-Broadway show will run between 15th and 31st January at the Theater For The New City, with tickets on sale now.

Pecknold presumedly landed the supervision of the play’s score thanks to his cousin Brian Watkins, who wrote the play itself, before choosing to collaborate with percussionist and singer/ songwriter Neal Morgan, whose previous work has included stints with Joanna Newsom and Bill Callahan.

A synopsis of the play, which appears on Lesser America’s website, reads as follows: “In the Tuttle family, the past is not to be discussed. But when their estranged and silent brother is spotted at a hometown diner twenty years after a confounding childhood crime, buried memories and unspoken bounties hatch one boozy, plotting Thanksgiving. In the depths of Wyoming’s wilderness, the family herd must stick together or teeter towards the way of the buffalo.”

There are no current plans to release a recording of the score, but for more details, and to buy tickets for the play, head to the Lesser America website here.

At present, there are also no plans for any forthcoming Fleet Foxes material: last year, the group confirmed they are now on hiatus while Pecknold returns to education in New York. Fleet Foxes’ last release was in 2011, in the form of their second album ‘Helplessness Blues’.