Gerry Casey Interviews Sari Schorr: A Voice of Unity in Blues-Rock

April 6, 2025

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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Sari Schorr

Sari Schorr first burst onto the Blues-Rock scene with her critically acclaimed debut album, A Force of Nature, produced by iconic British Blues pioneer Mike Vernon (David Bowie, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac). Her most recent collaboration Joyful Sky with Robin Trower soared to #1 on the Billboard Blues chart in the USA.

With a five-octave range and a diverse vocal skill set, Sari Schorr sets herself apart. Born in Queens, New York, working the music scene on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to performing at Carnegie Hall and touring internationally, Sari Schorr directs her passion for music as a timeless force to unify people.

From her travels around the world, Sari sees music and the arts as under attack. Art and culture have always been a beacon of freedom and a unifying element of society. Music empowers and unites, accepts difference and values individualism.

Throughout Sari’s journey, life experiences—both heartbreaking and seemingly debilitating—have only deepened her aura of raw resilience and unwavering strength. Being a first responder after the 9/11 attacks, a volunteer aid worker after the Haiti earthquake, and doing humanitarian work in India have all shaped Sari’s character and informed her music. Despite the pain she has witnessed, Sari finds silver linings in every experience. She stays true to her art, rejecting artificial success, empty glorification, and meaningless lyrics. Sari paves the way for a vision of unity made possible with a shared love for music, holding a mirror to the world to say we are all one people. People are kind, people are compassionate. Hate fuels discrimination, and fear stifles our ability to think creatively.

Throughout her career as a musician, Sari has been told to ‘shut up and sing’ when speaking out on crisis or relevant societal topics such as gun control, racism and equality. Such irony can be drawn from this because Sari’s lyrics are entrenched in global issues and a passion that resonates with audiences of all cultures and geographies. No line is random and no word is empty in the music she writes. Topics like self-empowerment, confronting hatred, taking chances, embracing life, forgiveness and facing loneliness shape the heart of Sari’s music, delivering raw, honest, and deeply resonant storytelling. Sari writes about the psychological toll of surviving domestic and sexual abuse, speaking for the disenfranchised and those facing injustice who do not have a voice.

Beyond her music career, Schorr is dedicated to humanitarian efforts, collaborating on projects like “Toast to Freedom” for Amnesty International alongside artists such as Warren Haynes and Carly Simon. She founded “Matters,” a non-profit organization aimed at highlighting humanitarian causes through the arts. Sari is a long distance cyclist, marathon runner and animal rights activist. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and Prudence, their rescued pit bull.

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