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RITT & WILDER DEITZ WITH MITCH DEITZ OF POST SOCIAL

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 ten 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. Tone Madison called the Wilder Deitz Group's live band show-stopping, fresh and joyous. Wilder is also the founder and artistic director of the Wilder Deitz School for Creative Music in Madison, Wisconsin.
This show features songs from Ritt's 2022 release, Hinge, plus songs from the forthcoming project, Transients and Strangers, slated for a 2024 release.
Opening act Mitch Deitz of Post Social. Mitch is Ritt's son and Wilder's brotherhis quartet, Post Social, has played live together for seventeen years (since they were all in the 4th grade together) and have released several studio recordings. Two Post Social members currently play in Wisconsin indie rock band Disq.