Denise Dill began songwriting to impress a crush at the age of 15, but it soon became much more than a gimmick. Fresh out of high school, Denise attended Berklee College of Music, but her heart forever marked by this experience, drew her back to the organic landscape of rural southern Indiana.

Her homecoming resulted in the foundation of Orenda, a band formed with life-long friends Victor Birkle, Summer Roedel, and Nick Turpen. Orenda created a buzz in the Evansville community that is still being talked about and put out the album “Mediocrity” as a documentation of these efforts. A much needed void was filled by their original music and they stayed strong for a year, but parted ways soon after to pursue new directions.

In August 2004 Denise released a solo album which generated her first large scale tour called "The Rose Street on the Road Tour," with songwriters Lisa Sanders and Irina Rivkin. This self-titled CD encompasses the deep connections shared with her community, relationships, and the ecosystem. The album resonates with natural and mathematical patterns in nature, love, and loss.

Presently, Denise has released a new album called "Heartbeat Balloon" which shed toured with across the Midwest and  Northeast this past May.  After this tour, she relocated to Lewiston, ME to continue sharing her new release and pursue her other passion, garden education, with a non-profit called Lots to Gardens. 

The instrumentation of "Heartbeat Balloon" is Denise’s debut on banjo and a revisitation to piano and guitar. The album is a unique lens capturing the importance of localism while applying it to the unsustainable model of our global world.  The album features Jason Ellis playing bass and doing production on "Techtonic Plates" and "Labyrinth" while the rest of the CD was homemade by Denise in her bedroom.  As with all of Denise’s songs, they are created from the inside out and reveal a level of personal vulnerability that you might only expect to share with a loved one.  Heartbeat Balloon, with its lush imagery feels more like visual art than audible.

On Denise's journeys to date, she has shared the stage with recognized U.S. artists Pamela Means, Alix Olson, Hamell on Trial, Girlyman, Edie Carey, Anne Heaton, Congress of  Starlings, Jamie Anderson, Wishing Chair, Ember Swift, Trina Hamlin, and more. Denise took her tour international when she performed last fall at Ladyfest Ottawa. She has also performed at National Women's Music Festival and The Big Tado. The self-proclaimed "earthy-folksinger with a queer twist" continues to reinvent her music with fervor. Profoundly personal, political, and poetic Deniseís songs draw the listener in deep and hold on tight.