“BODACIOUS-voiced” New York singer Sari Schorr will headline Keighley Blues Live on May 19.

She’ll be preceded at the club’s regular venue, the Octagon in Sandbeds, on May 5 by Devon Allman.

Devon is the son of Gregg, of Allman Brothers Band fame, and shares his father’s distinctive vocal timbre, also bringing rapier-like guitar riffs and tear-down-the-walls solos to the party.

A skilled guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter, Allman founded Honeytribe and became an original member of Royal Southern Brotherhood in 2011.

The Keighley audience can expect self-penned material, well-known covers and classic Allman Brothers tracks like One Way Out, Sweet Melissa, Say Your Prayers and I’ll Be Around.

One critic said Sari Schorr has an effortless range and sense of drama to give any song real purpose, while another said she is the embodiment of the best of the blues and beyond.

Broadway World gave her a 2012 award for Best Performance By A Blues Singer In A Band, saying she had channelled Janis Joplin and Tina Turner during her show with the Joe Louis Walker Band.

Powerful, energised and engaging, she is said to transition her voice from a whisper to a wail “like a car going from zero to 60 in the blink of an eye”, all within the space of one song.

Several years of touring the USA and Europe with Joe Louis Walker and Poppa Chubby brought Sari to great prominence in the blues world, and she was recently inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame.

She put together her own band, the Engine Room, featuring British guitarist Innes Sibun, formerly with Robert Plant. Their album, A Force Of Nature, is described as “a hailstorm of an album sure to go down in blues history” by Blues Rock Review.

Visit keighleyblueslive.co.uk to book.