Dale LaDuke

Dale LaDuke- One of Five Finalists at the 2008 Los Angeles Music Awards! He is up for -"Single Of The Year (Adult Contemporary)"Dale also made it into the top 20 at the 2008 Durango Song Expo."Dale, Great stuff and you finished in the top 20. The Competition is stiff, the girl who won two years ago wrote with Jeffrey Steele at The Expo and that song is the new Rascal Flatts single. Thanks again. We hope to see you at The Expo. Jim AtteberyDSE"Dale's song: "The Lone Ranger" won 4th place at the 2005-2006 Unisong International Songwriting Contest.

Dale LaDuke was born in Grosse Pointe Michigan. He began singing in church choirs when he was 8 years old and was principle solist and president of his high school choir, as well as trumpet player in the high school band. He went on to sing with the Michigan State Honors Choir and the Michigan State Fair Choir.

Around this time he began to teach himself the guitar and the piano and to write songs and play in local bands. After years of working in Detroit factories culminating in 13 months as a “large press operator” at a Chrysler stamping plant, he ran away to Yosemite National Park, leaving all of his hard earned possessions behind and stayed in the mountains for a year and a half. After a brief return home, where he founded the popular band “Triad”, he soon left Michigan again, and determined to observe humanity at all levels, and to work on his writing, spent several years traveling around the country as an itinerant street peddler, finally settling in Los Angeles.

He was one of the founders of the popular Southern California country band “Five Wheel Drive” that was one of five finalists (and the only country band) in Yahoo’s “Best Unsigned Band” contest in 2000, and the only group to have their songs in 6 of the top 10 slots in the country division of MP3.com that same year. Dale was flown to the red carpet awards show at Studio 54 in Manhattan that featured performances by David Bowie, Issac Hayes, Allanis Morriset and many others. The group recorded two demos for Warner Bros. Nashville, before finally disbanding.

Dale also began teaching shortly after arriving in LA and has been in demand as a teacher ever since. After many years of unsuccessfully searching for a simple, step-by-step method to teach piano and music theory, he finally wrote his own “Music Theory for the Theory Challenged”, soon to be made into an instructional DVD.

He currently lives and plays music in Los Angeles with the wonderful folk/americana/celtic band “Kaedmon” as well as recording and touring on his own.cher.

He can be seen and heard at www.kaedmon.com and also at www.fivewheeldrive.com

Contact information:

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KAEDMON

Keith Jarvis, Kris Jarvis, Dale LaDuke , Greg Krueger and Pat Mattison

Kaedmon is made up of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists writing songs with a diverse range of instrumentation ranging from guitar and mandolin to box drum and pennywhistle . . . think Americana with a whistle.

The band is an integral part of the Los Angeles americana/folk music scene, performing regularly with the likes of Kenny Edwards, Berkley Hart, Severin Browne, Harriet Schock and all the usual suspects. They have been featured in the "Bodie House" and "Caroline Aiken's" showcases at the 18th Annual Folk Alliance Conference in Austin, Texas. They are also a regular fixture of the Far-West Regional Folk Alliance events. The band has performed live on Larry Wines' KCSN radio show "Tied to the Tracks" and is proud to be mentioned in Larry's Folkscene magazine column as one of his Top 10 picks for last year! Kaedmon regularly headlines at the undisputed best acoustic music venue in LA: Bob Stane's Coffee Gallery Backstage.

In 2006, Kaedmon was a voted one of the top 5 finalists for the best "Acoustic Band" in the Orange County Music Awards. They are also included in this year's list of Music Connection magazine's top 100 unsigned bands.

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