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Sunshine Hahn
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Check out http://arts.ok.gov/artists/otp/solo/hahn.html or send any inquiries via email to SunshineHahnPR@me.com .
THE ESSENTIAL SUNSHINE SHOW
Only the hippest know for sure, and Sunshine Hahn has pockets full of hip styles. She has buckets of blues, decades deep. Her fluid voice reflects the acrobatic mastery of her influences: Nina Simone, Memphis Minnie, and Jessie Mae Hemphill, among others. The diverse artistry that inspires her music mixes impeccably with her personal style, and it becomes impossible to separate cover from original composition, mistress from mentor. This combination allows her the freedom to create new arenas within the traditional forms of blues, jazz, and folk...to interpret and experiment. She can grab your attention with a folk standard or execute a horn heavy jazz compositions with only an acoustic guitar accompaniment. Her guitar style is deceptively simple yet efficient, effective and minimalist, carving its perfect niche just below the voice, and it’s the voice that speaks to her depth.
Sunshine understands that profound southern groove that is the delta, and the urban styles that grew from it. At any given moment her voice transports the audience from Memphis to Chicago, to Texas or New Orleans, now or in any past decade. Let it stand as the recital of universal soul, universal style, and it’s a voice so tasty it would take a vintage vino, gumbo with lobster, and a bar-b-que feast with chocolate cake to even begin to explain it.
Art is the fusion of technique and soul, the unification of youth and wisdom. The great revelation of the integrity of Sunshine’s show isn’t just the synergy of style, the fusion of guts and energy. It’s that voice and its’ inherent experience. It’s that voice that transmits the familiarity of multiple life times, of relationships with love, pain, and judgment straight into the listeners consciousness, for them to take, and keep and enjoy and wonder how did that ancient voice get in that young woman? Listen to the mystery and you’ll never be the same. Only the hippest know for sure that Hahn is a true ambassador of the blues. She is sure to inspire all who get to know her music.
WRITTEN BY BOB MOORE, perodelluna@earthlink.net.
  
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