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Denise La Grassa Band

Thu, Feb 13

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Clara

With Denise La Grassa's release of her 9-song album “Sundown Rising,” it’s easy to look back now on how poem-songs she wrote as a wee child foreshadowed a late-blooming full-time blues music career.

Denise La Grassa Band
Denise La Grassa Band

Time & Location

Feb 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM

Clara, 2027 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, USA

About the event

With Denise La Grassa's release of her 9-song album “Sundown Rising,” it’s easy to look back now on how poem-songs she wrote as a wee child foreshadowed a late-blooming full-time blues music career. Those songs were just a warm-up for the spunky 5-year-old, who went door-to-door in her suburban Chicago neighborhood offering to sing and sell them to neighbors – right on their doorstep - for 25 cents apiece. Artist? Check. Entrepreneur? Check.


Fast forward to the small Wisconsin town of Baraboo, the audacious now 8th grader accepted a challenge from the town’s legendary Circus World Museum to break the world record for muscle grinds on a trapeze. She succeeded, securing for a brief time an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.


Denise later landed in Chicago and stumbled upon the comedy and improv enterprise The Second City. She quickly worked her way into the touring company, traveling…


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Address

2027 W North Ave

Chicago, IL, USA

Hours

Monday, Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday, Thursday: 4:00pm - 12:00am
Friday, Saturday: 4:00pm - 1:00am

Sunday: 12:00pm - 8:00pm

Contact

(773) 661-2182

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