FOLK star Eleanor McEvoy will make a one night only visit to Helensburgh and Lomond this weekend when she takes to the stage at Cove Burgh Hall.

The visit is part of her Naked Tour 2016 which will take her to Australia, England, Germany and Ireland.

The concert, taking place this Saturday, November 20, has been arranged by the Garelochhead and Rosneath Peninsula First Responders as part of their fundraising campaign.

The tour will promote Eleanor’s latest album as well as her first ever published song book ‘Naked Music – the Songbook’ and her new single Whisper a Prayer to the Moon, which was released on September 9.

Exposed to music at a very early age, Dublin-born Eleanor grew up in a strict Catholic household in the grey north-side suburb of Cabra.

After a musical upbringing playing the piano, violin and performing on stage with her older siblings, Eleanor graduated in music from Trinity in Dublin and set out to pay her way through life as a jobbing musician.

She spent four years as a member of Ireland's National Symphony Orchestra, while recording as a session artist on fiddle, keybord and vocals and touring with Irish diva Mary Black.

She's best known for her 1992 hit 'A Woman's Heart', released on a compilation album of the same name which also featured a host of top Irish female singer-songwriters, including Dolores Keane and Sharon Shannon as well as the aforementioned Mary Black.

Twelve solo studio albums have followed since then, most recently Naked Music, while she has also recorded or played live with many big names from the world of Irish contemporary music and beyond, including Midge Ure, Paul Brady and Dave Rotheray (formerly of The Beautiful South), while in June of this year she was appointed to the board of the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

The last few tickets for her Cove gig this Saturday are available online at www.universe.com/emcevoycove, or in person at Kilcreggan Post Office and Discography Records, Bell centre, 143-145 High street Dumbarton.