A SINGER songwriter whose music moved Tom Jones to tears with her powerful performance when on television's The Voice, is to perform at a venue on the North York Moors.

Sally Barker’s career has involved supporting bans such as Fairport Convention for several decades and she recently made the final of television’s The Voice, where she won high praise from Tom Jones.

She began writing songs and performing them at the age of ten, influenced by artists including John Martyn and Steeleye Span and by her late teens was performing in folk and blues pubs and folk clubs in the Midlands, before going on to wider fame.

On Saturday, September 1, she will make an appearance at The Hut in Goathland, near Whitby, with support from Kate Covell-Bullock, from Mickleby near Whitby.

She will be singing her own songs, plus a selection of covers.

Organiser Jim McLaughlin said: “I’ve followed Sally’s career over a lot of years – in fact I have an original vinyl album of hers from the 1980s.

“People are often disparaging about TV shows like The Voice, but in giving Sally that audience is has reinvigorated her career, which was struggling after the premature loss of her husband. Without The Voice, one of the great voices of her generation could have been lost.”

The event is being presented by Musicport, which will be presenting its music festival at Whitby in October.

The evening begins at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12 and overnight camping is £5 per pitch

For more information please visit www.musicportfestival.com