Singing | Dede Wyland | All Levels | Period 3 | Week 2 (July 14-19, 2024)
In this class you will learn both classic and more obscure bluegrass songs while at the same time focusing on the stylistic nuances that makes bluegrass singing sound like bluegrass, including phrasing, timing, and vocal “licks” or ornamentation.
About the Instructor
A native of Wisconsin, singer and guitarist Dede honed her bluegrass skills from 1975 through 1979 playing throughout the Midwest and Central states with the Milwaukee-based band ’Grass, Food & Lodging. She then moved to New York, where she became a founding member of Tony Trischka and Skyline, one of the leading progressive bluegrass groups of the 1980s. She toured internationally with Skyline through the ’80s. During those years her clear, powerful voice made her a perennial nominee in the annual awards poll of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA). As one of the few women at the time who was performing in a high-profile touring bluegrass band, Dede was a role model and an artistic influence for a generation of female bluegrass musicians who would shape the music in the
years to come.