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Powerful Soul Ensemble Samantha Martin &
Delta Sugar
Set to Release Sophomore Recording |
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Run To Me out April 27 followed by hometown CD
launch party April 28 at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto
Watch/Share new live video for "All
Night Long" here
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For Immediate Release:
March 29, 2018 (Toronto,ON) - Toronto-based Samantha Martin & Delta
Sugar’s latest recording, entitled Run to Me, is scheduled for release
on April 27, 2018. Produced by Darcy Yates (bassist for Bahamas), the new
album explores the full range of the vicissitudes of love: desire, betrayal
and, at times, emotional and sexual satisfaction. The lyrics are incisive,
the melodies are constantly arresting and the harmonies and arrangements call
up the best of the soul sounds of Stax Records and such contemporary artists
as Leon Bridges, Sharon Jones, and Lee Fields.
Samantha Martin and
Delta Sugar’s debut release, 2015’s Send the Nightingale, was a
stripped- down affair consisting of Martin, her two co-singers Sherie and
Stacie, and guitarist Mikey McCallum. For Run to Me, Martin elected to
record her emotionally wrought material with an expanded band, augmenting the
core of Delta Sugar’s gospel-infused harmonies with a full rhythm section,
piano, organ and an ever-so-soulful horn section.
Send the Nightingale was a stunning achievement which garnered four Maple Blues
nominations in 2016, was regularly featured on the CBC, topped the blues
charts on Stingray radio and propelled the group onto the stages of all the
major Canadian festivals and clubs coast to coast. Subsequent to the album’s
release, Martin has been nominated three years in a row as Female Vocalist of
the Year at the Maple Blues Awards. Continuing to build on the group’s
steamrolling momentum, in the fall of 2017, Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar
were selected by a panel of blues experts to represent Toronto at the
International Blues Challenge in Memphis, a platform that has served to
launch any number of careers in both Europe and the United States.
While Martin is a
powerhouse unto herself, the vocal alchemy of Delta Sugar is not the
work of a single talent. In combination with what she likes to term her
“co-vocalists,” Sherie Marshall and newest full-time member Mwansa Mwansa,
the vocal blend Delta Sugar produces is pure, unadulterated gospel-tinged,
neuron-tingling magic where the sum is even richer than the already
soul-melting parts.
After performing 130
high energy “soul revue” style shows in the US and Canada in 2017, and
buzz-worthy showcases at both Americana (Sept. 2017) and at The International
Blues Challenge in Memphis (Jan. 2018) – Samantha is now building her
European fan base with two full-length European tours scheduled before
February 2019. The live show is a torrid force of nature, taking audiences to
emotional peaks while leaving them stunned with pin-you-against-the-wall
power.
 
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar CD Release Party
Saturday, April 28
The Horseshoe Tavern
370
Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Doors at 8:00 p.m. Show at 9:00
p.m. with Dani Nash and The
Honeyrunners
Advance tickets $15 available at ticketfly.com / $20 at the door
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