Award-winning musician, songsmith and powerhouse performer Christina Martin will be making her way to Char’s Landing in Port Alberni this month.
In September 2023, Canadian singer-songwriter Christina Martin launched her long-anticipated album, the compellingly titled Storm. Riding on the wave of four varied and vigorous singles, Storm is Martin’s most ambitious release yet. Crafted meticulously over many years, it shows Martin at her most majestic, boasting anthemic hooks and lavish orchestral strings.
Yet it’s also a deeply personal piece, wearing its heart on its sleeve. It guides us down the long winding road to recovery - taking Martin’s own experiences and making them exquisitely relatable. Aptly named, Storm is a whirling, grandiose beast that’s bombastic, beautiful, traumatic and triumphant all at once.
Storm is nominated for a 2024 East Coast Music Award for Solo Recording of the Year, and Martin is nominated for Fan’s Choice Entertainer of the Year.
Martin’s music dances effortlessly through pop, rock, folk and Americana traditions, but stays deftly unchained by any one label, unafraid to venture into stranger waters. From her Austin-inflected 2002 debut Pretty Things, to the sweeping cinematic dreamscape of 2018’s Impossible to Hold, Martin is an artist who is constantly shifting, and constantly evolving. And like all her material, latest album Storm boasts a backbone of raw honesty about the human condition.
Martin will be at Char’s Landing on Saturday, April 6. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and music starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at christinamartin.bpt.me or by calling or texting Char at 250-730-1636.