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Kaleigh Wilder is a Detroit-based baritone saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist whose work intersects Black American Music and the avant-garde. She is a 2022 Kresge Artist Fellow and her writing has appeared in The New York Times. Wilder has performed as a sideperson alongside Regina Carter, Tia Fuller, Marion Hayden, Ingrid Jensen, Allison Miller, Ellen Rowe, Jaribu Shahid, and Ken Vandermark. Currently navigating focal dystonia, she has redirected her voice toward radio, hosting Visions on WDET, Detroit's NPR station, spanning jazz from the late 1960s to present.