RESOUNDING and spectacularly powerful.

New York City Blues poewerhouse Sari Schorr and her band - Ash Wilson (Guitar), Matt Beable (Bass), Phil Wilson (Drums and Adrian Gautrey (Keyboards) left nothing in the dressing room as they delivered a tour de force gig.

Loud and proud was clearly the motif for the night. Kicking off with a beautifully restrained Where Have You Been, My Friend?

There is poignancy for beneath the class which simply oozes out of Schorr’s smokey vocals.

Yes, it's been a while - thanks Covid - but now she's back doing what she enjoys most. Singing live and with tremendous gusto. Boy are we happy about that too.

Demolition Man knocked the socks off the assembled, its ballsy lyrics degined to provoke a response that tolls out in a tide of cheering and clapping at its finale.

Aunt Hazel and a magnificently performed Turn The Radio On were two of many stand-outs during the ninety minute, 16-song delight fueled gig, Ash Wilson’s delicious guitar work shining bright, while brother Phil hammered out the beat as though his life depended on it, Damn The Reason and a gutsy, raw Valentina are demonstrably Sarti Schorr at her finest and most gorgeously in tune with what it is her audience wants.

It's their show and she knows it, hitting note after striking not smack on the button then coming back around for more Ordinary Life highlighted the singer's softer side magnificently, while her unique control of Lead Belly's Black Betty deserves all the plaudits it received here. And then some.

Closing on Heat Wave, Sari Schorr left the stage and the crowd breathless, deliriously happy and begging for more.

Let's just hope it sooner rather than late.

Quite superb and quite emotionally charged, Sari Schorr and her band left nothing but good times, power and an all encompassing joy in the The Live Rooms Chester, this fabulous venue that does so much for promoting live music.

Tour dates from www.sarischorr.com