Denise La Grassa Band
Thu, Feb 13
|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.


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…