Doors 7:30 PM
Two Sets 8-10pm
*This is a solo show

“The Best Albums of 2023 (So Far)” - Rolling Stone

“I feel like there are two sides of me,” says the Nashville-based singer-songwriter and guitar
virtuoso known as Sunny War. “One of them is very self-destructive, and the other is trying to
work with that other half to keep things balanced.” That’s the central conflict on her fourth
album, the eclectic and innovative Anarchist Gospel, which documents a time when it looked
like the self-destructive side might win out. “Everybody is a beast just trying their hardest to be
good. That’s what it is to be human. You’re not really good or bad. You’re just trying to stay in
the middle of those two things all the time, and you’re probably doing a shitty job of it. That’s
okay, because we’re all just monsters.”

Extreme emotions can make that battle all the more perilous, yet from such trials Sunny has
crafted a set of songs that draw on a range of ideas and styles, as though she’s marshaling all her
forces to get her ideas across: ecstatic gospel, dusty country blues, thoughtful folk, rip-roaring
rock and roll, even avant garde studio experiments (like the collage of voices that closes “Shelter
and Storm”). She melds them together into a powerful statement of survival, revealing a probing
songwriter who indulges no comforting platitudes and a highly innovative guitarist who deploys
spidery riffs throughout every song.


For more information on Sunny War, please visit www.sunnywar.com