Sari Schorr announces UK tour, including Glasgow show

Sari Schorr has taken the music world by storm. She has a voice like no other; hyper powerful, husky and muscular, with an incredible texture and range. She delivers a sentence as a boxer would throw an uppercut to his opponent. Every year there is seemingly a constant parade of must-hear singers right? Not really. They come along rarely if they’re the real deal, as rarely as a seminal live album actually.

Album trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfS1T6kQP8&feature=youtu.be

“Sari Schorr is one of the best contemporary blues-rock singers in the world.” — Raw Ramp

“Sari Schorr is simply too good to be typecast. She is blessed with an incredible voice – one so good, in fact, that it is time to stop saying she has the best voice in blues as we have before on this site – quite simply she has just about the finest voice in modern music.” — Maximum Volume Music

“The future of blues is in good hands. Sari is a gift to all of us from the Blues Gods.” — Blues Matters

“Sari Schorr’s new album “Never Say Never” is a revelation. A future of potential and possibilities has opened up in front of Sari Schorr with this new album and her live shows are becoming unmissable events.” — Powerplay

“Schorr’s singing soars…Singers and players don’t often combine to create a consistent and extraordinary album of well-judged songs and performances such as this. Never Say Never indeed.” — The Daily Express


UK Tour

Apr 2 Thu : Band on the Wall, Manchester
Apr 3 Fri : The Flowerpot, Derby
Apr 4 Sat : Room 2, Glasgow
Apr 5 Sun : Cluny, Newcastle
Apr 6 Mon : Green Hotel , Kinross
Apr 9 Thu : The Platform, Morecambe
Apr 10 Fri : Nantwich Jazz Festival
Apr 16 Thu : Worcester Live
Apr 17 Fri : Boom Bom Club, Sutton
Apr 18 Sat : Plough Arts Centre .Great Torrington
Apr 23 Thu : The Brook, Southampton
Apr 24 Fri : Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
Apr 25 Sat : Picturedome, Bradford
Apr 26 Sun : Islington Assembly Hall
Apr 29 Wed : Robin 2, Bilston
Apr 30 Thu : The Live Rooms, Chester

Meet Sari Schorr. What makes her different is what makes all the others the same. She’s got talent, who hasn’t, but she has depth, life experience (like helping out in Haiti after the earthquake). She has real stories to tell. Sari is one of the few singers that can be, and is, mentioned in the same breath as Joplin. What you get is Blues with 3 Michelin Stars served in a New York diner. Don’t forget to leave a tip! Schorr’s “overnight” success comes after years trudging the rugged road of life of the hard-working blues woman. She honed her craft playing relentlessly in the fierce South Bronx and on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Her talent would not be denied and it took her all the way to Carnegie Hall, tours around the world and major TV appearances. Sari gained prominence throughout the blues world touring with the legendary guitarist, Joe Louis Walker.

She was recognized for her contribution to the blues in 2015 with an induction into the New York Blues Hall of Fame. In Memphis, that same year, a chance meeting with iconic record producer Mike Vernon (Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Peter Green) took Sari’s career to the next level. Within minutes of hearing Sari sing Mike offered to come out of retirement to produce her debut album, A Force of Nature. The album quickly established Sari as the new undisputed rising star of blues rock. Sari broke new ground with her sophomore album, Never Say Never with a collection of songs heavy with reflections on Sari’s American home, delivered through her unmistakable, powerful and heartfelt vocals.

Sari’s brand-new, 12-track live album was recorded on the last tour, and serves as a perfect illustration of why you’ll want to catch the next one. We are treated to the passion of original songs from her two studio albums and two reworked covers, Black Betty and I Just Want To Make Love To You, both hot favourites with audiences. These stunning live recordings from across Europe, along with two previously unreleased acoustic tracks recorded for the BBC in the UK, truly make this album an object of desire. For Sari “there is an honestly in a live performance that allows me to be vulnerable and uncensored.”

We are in uncharted territory, and to use superlatives that have been wrongly applied to lesser performers in the past, mostly by ad agencies, would be to cheapen something exceptional. Perhaps the best words are actually the names of other exceptional artists Sari stands alongside, like Tina Turner, Elkie Brooks and the already mentioned Janice Joplin.

Sari mixes a passion for music and with a duty of social responsibility. She has devoted her talent and energy to music projects of a grand scale for humanitarian causes. Most notable is her work on a “Toast to Freedom” for Amnesty International, where she collaborated with many musical legends including Warren Haynes, Levon Helm, Keb Mo, Eric Burdon and Carly Simon. Sari’s humanitarian efforts include work in Haiti and India. She founded “Matters” – a non-profit that draws attention to humanitarian causes through the arts. Sari is a marathon runner and animal rights activist. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and rescued pit bulls.

“It is clear from the lyrical content of Schorr’s latest record that while she has plenty to say, it is driven by experience and a passionate honesty for her role of carrying a soul-felt message.” - RnR Magazine

“Anyone who has heard Saris 2016 debut album or seen her on tour will be well aware of her rich, rocky voice and consummate power-blues ability, which arguably puts her in the genre’s premier league.” — Rock Society

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