We are thrilled to be hosting music again, and with special friends, Ritt & Wilder. After a sold-out night with us in October 2019, they asked if they could return to the Parlor to promote the release of their new album, Hinge. Of course, we said yes!

Check out the first single release, I Could Wait for You, here. Then, reserve your seat(while you listen to it again...and again. It's that good!)

Covid protocol

Given the size of our home, we are reducing the number of seats available for this event. We are also asking that all who attend be fully vaccinated or wear a mask if not vaccinated. All guests are welcome to wear a mask if it makes them more comfortable. We shall continue to follow CDC guidelines and depending on the number of cases in our area, we may mandate mask-wearing by all on the day of the show.

Show logistics

We'll send you a confirmation email with our exact address once we receive notice of your ticket purchase. All proceeds go directly to artists. Eventbrite charges a modest service fee and collects tax for its ticketing service. (It's all good!)

Doors are at 7 p.m. Music begins at 7:30 p.m. (sharp) We'll serve pie from Piebird at intermission. Yay for music + pie!

More about our guests...

A regular performer in listening rooms and house concerts from Wisconsin to his native Kentucky, Ritt has been writing and recording since the age of eleven. The Onion’s AV Club called his songs “concurrently earthy, ethereal and intelligent” and compared him to songwriters Greg Brown and Bruce Cockburn. Madison, Wisconsin’s Isthmus says, “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.”

The Madison Observer called Ritt’s voice a “mix between a world-weary blues howl and a country twang […] with a warm hospitality befitting this Kentucky native.” Cincinnati’s City Beat said Ritt’s “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 Republic’s 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 is a lifelong musician, composer and bandleader. When not playing with his father, Wilder plays a formidable brand of original soul music at venues across the Midwest. Synesthesia’s Scott Collins calls Wilder’s music “nothing less than pure in intent and execution… Absolutely beautiful,” while Tone Madison calls Wilder’s raucous live band “show-stopping,” “fresh” and “joyous.”

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An Evening with Ritt & Wilder Deitz