JAZZ queen Clare Teal is returning to home turf for summer concerts.

When she's not fronting her big band or presenting her weekly show on BBC Radio 2, the award-winning singer from Kildwick, near Skipton, likes to perform in more intimate venues.

Her set list is, she says, always evolving, from great American and British songbooks to songs by her heroines, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day and Peggy Lee to more contemporary covers and original material.

Beautiful melodies and lively arrangements are interspersed with Clare’s warm and witty storytelling and banter.

Clare Teal is one of the UK’s most celebrated jazz singers, having released 14 albums to date. After signing to independent label Candid in 2001 and releasing three titles, it was Clare’s first album for Sony Jazz which was her breakthrough record. Released in 2004, Don’t Talk topped the jazz charts and entered the UK Top 20.

Highlights of her career include opening twice for Liza Minnelli, singing with the BBC Big Band at Proms in the Park, performing at Glastonbury Festival, and as a regular at Ronnie Scott’s, and performing with the 100-piece Halle Orchestra at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. She also produced, presented and performed her own Prom during last year#s Proms Season at the Royal Albert Hall.

Clare will present a duo show, with piano accompaniment only, on Friday, September 11 at Holy Trinity Church, Ripon, and a quartet show, backed by her trio on piano, bass and drums, on Saturday, September 12 at Fallfest, Glusburn.