Poi Dog Pondering Returns to Aurora's Paramount Theatre, 2/9

Fresh off two sold-out shows at Chicago's new City Winery in December, Poi Dog Pondering next plays one of suburban Chicago's best live music venues, the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora, one-night-only, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at 8 p.m.

Tickets to Poi Dog Pondering (PDP) live at the Paramount are only $35 to $45. For tickets and information, go to ParamountAurora.com, call the Paramount box office, (630) 896-6666, or visit the box office Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and two hours prior to evening performances.

"Poi Dog rocked the house last year at the Paramount and now they're coming back for more," said Paramount's President and CEO Tim Rater. Rater also pointed out "PDP is celebrating the release of Live at Metro Chicago Dec 2-3 2011, a new 51-song, four-CD box set and a 32-song two-DVD retrospective concert film, so we're anticipating a house full of fans grooving in the aisles to their fantastic live music."

Poi Dog Pondering, voted "Best Rock/Pop Act" in the Chicago Reader's 2009 Reader's Poll, started playing for change in front of the Woolworth's building on Kalakaua Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii. Over 25 years later, Frank Orrall and his band have traveled the world playing their cool fusion of folk, rock, electronica and funk while building legions of avid fans. From bohemian street buskers to impossible to market major label sacrificial lambs, PDP have ripened into staunchly independent musical voyagers. They have let every sound that excited them flow through their music and flood it with ever-changing colors - rock, soul, orchestral, acoustic and electronic textures, Americana, disco and international musics - all threaded along the way with lyrics that embrace the beauty and pain that life can bring.