Ritt & Wilder Deitz

press release: $10 advance $15 at the door

Join us for father and son singer/songwriter duo Ritt and Wilder Deitz.

"Ritt Deitz combines rugged mountain sonics with an aesthetic that's closer to ragtime than anything else. At times, he resembles Tom Waits in his ability to marry sophistication with down-homeness, which he puts on full display in his ninth album, Horses and Smoke."

Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Wilder grew up accompanying his dad, singer-songwriter Ritt Deitz, on tours around the Midwest. It was performing in his dad’s band that Wilder first picked up piano, guitar, bass and percussion, playing any instrument necessary to serve the song. Wilder went on to lead his own bands in middle and high school, playing rock music in clubs around town and booking a “Live and Local” series for young musicians. In college Wilder discovered the splendor of jazz from a mentor who helped shape it- NEA Jazz Master Richard Davis, then a professor at the University of Wisconsin.