Singer-songwriter Sadie Jemmett, who is now in her early 30s, attended school in the village of Botton in the 80s when her mother Joanna was the community priest.
And tomorrow, a minibus of her friends is set to travel to Farndale to see her perform at The Band Room.
Her journey has followed a jagged course – from a wildly Bohemian childhood through being a backing singer in a reggae band and a touring actress, to her role today.
Along the way she spent a year busking in Berlin, wrote the music for an award-winning version of Brecht's Good Woman Of Setchuan at the National Theatre Chaillot in Paris and became a mother.
Sadie took up the guitar at the age of 12 after being packed off from Botton to board with a family in Hertfordshire.
"They had a great record collection and I got to hear people like Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin," she said.
Her debut album The Blacksmith's Girl, which was produced by Steve Lee, mixed and co-produced in LA by David Bianco (who has worked with Del Amitri and Tom Petty) and mixed in London by Kevin Metcalfe (Queen, David Bowie, Kinks), is to be released next year.
She said: "Living in Botton was great. It was amazing because I had come from living down in London to being in the middle of the North Yorkshire Moors.
"There was a big emphasis at the school on the arts. My music was encouraged. Last time I went back was six or seven years ago when I was doing the music for a play."
Sadie says things have been going well in London and there has been a lot of interest from major record labels.
Gig organiser Nigel Burnham said: "Sadie's a brilliant new acoustic folk pop singer. She's being compared with Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries, Sinead O'Connor, Suzanne Vega, Joni Mitchell, June Tabor ... not to mention Neil Young and Bob Dylan. And she's a great guitarist too. She'd love to see the people she knew at Botton so some people may want to come over to her concert."
Tickets to see Sadie in concert at Low Mill, Farndale cost £10. Doors open at 7.30pm and the concert starts at 8pm.
For more information call (01751) 432900.