Big Howdy Bluegrass Showcase Featuring: Billy Harrison & Haywire

The first Saturday of each month Big Howdy hosts a showcase featuring a special guest!

Special Guests: Billy Harrison & Haywire

We are a Bluegrass Band comprised of a Brother/ Sister Duo featuring male and female lead vocals, high energy, great harmonies and excellent musicians.

After a 20 year hiatus Billy Harrison decided it is time to return to playing the music he so loved in his earlier years. With assistance from Terry Wittenberg and Billy’s “baby sister” Terry DiPaula they have formed a bond with tight harmonies and great musical arrangements along with instrumentation.

The band hails out of the old “bluegrass hot bed being the outskirts of Washington D.C. and Baltimore, MD.

Performing with high energy they do not hang their hats on Traditional Bluegrass, but bend the rules to put themselves out on the edge with doing their own arrangements / compilations of some very familiar classic rock songs. That is where the “haywire” comes into play.

Billy Harrison & Haywire Band – “New to the “Bluegrass” Scene, but not new to the music.”s newest instro noisemakers! Surf! Garage! Spaghetti Western! Spy! Chicha Libre!

A DC-based progressive bluegrass band featuring the duet singing of Dede Wyland and Randy Barrett. The group offers a mix of original songs plus reinterpretations of classic country, bluegrass and roots material. Dede is a nationally recognized vocalist while Randy is a well-established singer songwriter and banjoist. Together with Ira Gitlin on bass and Tom McLaughlin on mandolin, Big Howdy sounds unlike any other band. And that's the way they like it

Dede Wyland - Vocals Guitar

Randy Barrett - Vocals, Banjo, Guitar

Ira Gitlin - Vocal, Bass

Tom McLaughlin - Vocals, Mandolin, Guitar

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