Dee Specker
Dee Specker is a fiddler and singer from Wellsville, New York, who has lived in Ithaca for about 25 years. She joined the Ithaca bluegrass band Cornerstone in 1993, replacing Pam Daley as its fiddler and singer. That lineup, with banjo player Chris Stuart, guitarist Tim Wallbridge, Rick Manning on mandolin and fiddle, and Dana Paul on bass, recorded the album Out of the Valley, released in 1994. She also plays swing and jazz, and she has worked with Ithaca-area musicians including the Henrie Brothers, Patti Witten, Rick Manning, and John Simon. She sang and played fiddle on her self-released swing album, Swingsation. Since 2011 she has performed as a duo with guitarist Bob Walpole, a high school classmate from Wellsville.