AMERICAN singer Katy Moffatt makes her third visit to the Black Swan Folk Club in York on Thursday night.

“Katy comes from the alt. country/Americana tradition of US singer-songwriters, but is very much at home in a cosy British folk club setting, as we discovered on her debut visit, which still lives in my mind as one of the club’s greatest gigs of the last decade,” says club organiser Roland Walls.

“At the time she was promoting a solo live album, Up Close And Personal, and I thought then how very appropriate for a packed house in our intimate little venue.”

Raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Katy has been a professional musician since the mid-1970s, recording albums for the Columbia, Rounder, Philo and Hightone labels and collaborating with many leading names on the “alternative” country and American folk scenes.

Her partnership with Tom Russell resulted in some particularly memorable songs and long-time Russell collaborator Andrew Hardin has produced three of her albums, most recently Fewer Things in 2008.

Chris Euesden hosts the 8pm concert; Graham Hodge is among the floor performers, and tickets cost £8 from wegottickets.com and on the door.