Press Release
Dede Wyland
Singer, Guitarist, Performer and Voice Instructor
Dede Wyland’s pure and compelling voice has enchanted audiences around the globe, and her driving rhythm guitar style becomes the rhythmic core of whatever group she joins forces with. Dede is no newcomer to the bluegrass scene. She’s been in bluegrass, first in regional bands around her native Milwaukee area, since the 1970s. In the ‘80s, she moved to New York and became a charter member of the internationally known and groundbreaking group Tony Trischka and Skyline.
During her many years as a touring musician, Dede graced the stage of some of America’s most prestigious bluegrass and acoustic music venues and festivals, and has performed in Canada, Australia, France, Belgium, England, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia and Japan. Radio listeners have heard Dede on the nationally broadcast shoes A Prairie Home Companion and Mountain Stage, and on Chicago’s The Flea Market. Her national television appearances include two installments of The Nashville Network’s Fire on the Mountain. Throughout the 1980s, Dede was a perennial nominee in the annual awards poll of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA).
In 1990, Dede moved to the greater Washington D.C. area, and although no longer on the road, her recordings and concert performances with the cream of Washington’s bluegrass players made her an eleven-time winner of the Washington Area Music Association’s “Wammie” award for Bluegrass Singer of the Year since 1999.
