PIANIST, singer, songwriter and storyteller Judith Owen will perform her pop, jazz and soul songs at Selby Town Hall on November 18.

The Welsh songstress will be joined by legendary bassist Leland Sklar – who has played with James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Phil Collins et al – plus percussionist Pedro Segundo and cellist Gabriela Swallow for an evening of grown-up music and humour.

The focus will be on her latest album of vignettes drawn from life, Somebody’s Child, released in March on the Twanky Records label. “By nature, I am a diverse musician. It’s who I am because of all the music I grew up being exposed to, from opera to Sinatra, Joni Mitchell to Stevie Wonder, and everything in between,” says Judith.

“It's a very British thing where you love mixing all those styles. It's classical. It's pop. There's jazz. There's rhythm and blues. Then there's rock thrown in there too.”

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Support act Balsamo Deighton

Whereas Owen's 2014’s album Ebb & Flow was both personal and a love letter to the Laurel Canyon music scene, Somebody’s Child takes a leap from the confessional to the observational, while recruiting the same crème de la crème of Los Angeles session musicians. Leland Sklar, guitarist Waddy Wachtel and drummer Russell Kunkel were incorporated alongside her British-based musicians, Pedro Segundo and Gabriella Swallow, to create a fresh dynamic.

Owen will be supported at her 8pm Selby concert by Americana duo Balsamo Deighton, comprising Steve Balsamo and Rosalie Deighton, who will play songs of love and loss from their debut album, Unfolding.

Tickets are on sale on 01757 708449 or at selbytownhall.co.uk/events/ or on the door from 7.30pm.