It’s a big weekend for Wilco’s eclectic Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams, but there are also options closer to town, both indoors and out, starting with locally rooted act on Friday. Deb Talan plied her trade as a singer-songwriter around Boston for years before she met kindred spirit Steve Tallen at Club Passim. They launched the folk-pop duo the Weepies, married and relocated to California, so their Friday show at the Wilbur Theatre is like a local victory lap in the wake of Talan beating breast cancer last year. Sudbury native Mike Gordon’s best known as the quirky bassist for Phish, the monster jam-band that plays its only Northeast summer date at its August Magnaball festival in Watkins Glen, N.Y., but Gordon also leads his sympathetic solo band at Lowell’s Boarding House Park on Friday. Buffalo Tom never really went away, though shows are rarer these days for the alt-rock trio, which plays the Sinclair on Friday and Saturday, with a complete reading of the group’s 1992 landmark album Let Me Come Over that second night.

Saturday’s nearby options include singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter’s band at the South Shore Music Circus, while the funky Bad Rabbits rock the Paradise Rock Club. And Sunday offers jazz-pop chanteuse Madeleine Peyroux (who began her career busking on the streets of Paris) at the Berklee Performance Center, while country-pop favorite Dwight Yoakum hits Webster’s Indian Ranch.

But really, for the intrepid music fan, it’s all about Solid Sound at the other end of the state, starting Friday with an all-acoustic headlining set by host band Wilco, but also offering Real Estate, Mac DeMarco, the Richard Thompson Trio, Jessica Pratt, NRBQ, Parquet Courts and the Charles Lloyd Quartet across the weekend. King Sunny Ade has unfortunately cancelled his Sunday appearance (along with the rest of his tour because of State Department computer problems with visas) and the forecast appears to be growing rainy the second half of the weekend. But Solid Sound has the advantage of MASS MoCA’s courtyards and indoor galleries and theater spaces that can offer refuge in a downpour as well as performances by Bill Frisell’s group and Wilco lead guitarist Nel Cline’s Stained Radiance improvisations with maverick painter Norton Wisdom among many Wilco side projects. Here’s the Solid Sound website for more info.