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Ritt & Wilder Deitz

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A regular performer in listening rooms and house concerts from Wisconsin to his native Kentucky, Ritt Deitz has been writing and recording since the age of eleven. The Onions AV Club called his songs concurrently earthy, ethereal and intelligent and compared him to songwriters Greg Brown and Bruce Cockburn. Madison, Wisconsins Isthmus thought of Tom Waits, adding Deitz combines rugged mountain sonics with an aesthetic thats closer to ragtime than anything else." Cincinnatis City Beat said Ritts smart, perceptive and poetic songwriting [] glows with an aura similar to Springsteen at his most organic.
With nine album-length releases under his belt, Ritt is likely one of the few American singer-songwriters who is also both a Knight in the French Republics Order of Academic Palms (2012) and a commissioned Kentucky Colonel (2021).
Taught to play by his singer-songwriter father and mentored by an NEA Jazz Master, Wilder Deitz is a lifelong musician, composer and bandleader. When not playing with his dad, Wilder plays a formidable brand of original soul music at venues across the Midwest. For WVMO radio host and Synesthesia blogger Scott Collins, Wilders music is nothing less than pure in intent and execution Absolutely beautiful." Tone Madison called Wilders raucous live band show-stopping, fresh and joyous.
This show winds up a tour of the Midwest and South, behind the Deitzes' new record, their first true father-son effort, HINGE.
Opening act TBA.