AWARD-WINNING musician, singer, producer, twice Mercury Music Prize nominee, winner of more than five BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and scion of the UK folk royal family, Eliza Carthy is one of the UK’s pre-eminent modern musicians.

Having played a sell-out gig in Bridport earlier this year, she returns to Dorset in October to perform at Lighthouse in Poole.

Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterise Eliza Carthy’s highly original, self-penned music.

With her new band, including Emma Smith, who has recorded with Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz, she delivers a more up-tempo show than before. The style is aggressive and the performance promise to be visceral, emotional, exciting and full-on.

Eliza Carthy is undoubtedly one of the most impressive and engaging performers of her generation.

Winner of innumerable accolades over a 15-year career, as well as presenting awards for MOJO magazine and judging at both the Q Awards and the Ivor Novello Awards, Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists including Paul Weller, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Nick Cave, Patrick Wolf and Bob Neuwirth.

More than most, Eliza Carthy has revitalised folk music and captured the most hardened of dissenters with intelligent, charismatic and boundary-crossing performance.

Eliza grew up immersed in the world of traditional music.

She still divides her time between touring and recording with her legendary parents, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, as well as engaging in numerous pioneering solo and band projects.

In what has become something of a parallel career, Eliza has co-presented the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, been a regular guest-presenter on the BBC Radio 2 Mark Radcliffe Show and has made many appearances on the BBC’s Later with Jools Holland.

Comedian and writer Stewart Lee describes Eliza as ‘Not the Messiah, but a very naughty girl’.

Championed from an early age by John Peel, Andy Kershaw and Billy Bragg, Michael Eavis claimed to have discovered her when she played the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2001.

Her band consists of herself on fiddle, guitar, accordion, voice, Willy Molleson on drums, Emma Smith playing double bass, Phil Alexander on piano and accordion) and Bethany Porter on cello.

The concert at Lighthouse is on October 14 and tickets are available from 0844 406 8666.