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Sunny War performs for the first time in Chicago!!!

Rumba
Chicago, IL

Hello all, it's been six years since this wild ride began.RATIO is extremely grateful for all of the amazing support we have received and would like to thank you in a very special way...

RatioNation.com presents:

RATIO's 6 Year Anniversary and Fan Appreciation Party Part 2!!!
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Featuring the first Chicago performance of soon to be Blues Legend:

SUNNY WAR
A guitarist with fingers like Robert Johnson's and a voice like Billie Holiday

with special guest appearance by: TBA

December 9
RUMBA
351 W. Hubbard
8pm- 2am

21+

Only $5 in advance and $10 at the door.

SUNNY WAR (Blues/Folk/Punk)
www.myspace.com/sunnywarmusic

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9mfgsLQsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzNyIdJG9cQ

"Meet Sunny War, She's going to blow your mind"
Excerpt of featured interview by Michael Simmons for the L.A. Weekly

"...her right thumb plunks the bass part while her forefinger upstrokes notes and chords, leaving the other three fingers
unused. A banjo technique, it's also used by acoustic blues guitarists. Her fingers are long and strong - Robert Johnson hands - in jarring contrast
to the waif they're attached to. The walking bass line sounds like a hammer striking piano keys in perfect meter, while the fills are dynamic flurries - like cluster bombs. I haven't heard a young guitarist this dexterous and ass-kicking in eons."

"...There's that voice. While clearly the product of a very young woman, War has the sob and throb of Billie Holiday — if Lady Day had emerged in
Mississippi and not Harlem during the Depression. As if Bukka White, not Lester Young, were her mentor. Like Billie, War undersigns.
She doesn't push the notes — the notes push her. "Her voice is like an open wound," observes Moira Smiley of vocal group VOCO,
"as if she has a physical need to sing..."

"...While the blues is her foundation, the singer is by no means a revivalist. Some tunes have the staccato chord structure of punk rock, others are utterly idiosyncratic. Peter Stampfel, co-founder of the legendary Holy Modal Rounders, is a fan: "I really like how her songs don't fit in the standard blues forms, which I began getting tired of about 40 years ago. I like irregular forms and blues approaches to non-blues songs.
I'm extremely gratified to see a young blues person breaking out of that straitjacket...."

To read complete L.A Weekly feature article:

http://www.laweekly.com/2009-07-16/music/meet-sunny-war/See More

Note: This is a 21+ event.

Minimum Age: 21

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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