A folk-rock singer who in the 2000s had a debut album that produced two Top 25 hits, sold platinum and made her music inescapable will perform at Mauch Chunk Opera House. 

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Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, whose 2004 album “Eye to the Telescope” hit the Top 20, included the hits "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" and “Suddenly I See,” and got her nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, will play at 8 p.m. April 23.

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Tickets, at $49, are available at the opera house website, www.mcohjt.com or at the box office at 14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe.

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In the mid-2000s, Tunstall’s songs were everywhere in popular culture – heavily played on radio and used in television shows and movies such as “The Devil Wears Prada.”

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She became an even bigger star in the UK, where her debut album sold five times platinum and her first three albums hit the Top 5. Tunstall in 2006, she won the BRIT Award for best British Female Solo Artist and was nominated for best British Live Act and best British Breakthrough Act.

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In all, Tunstall has released eight albums of new material. She released a 20th anniversary edition of “Eye to the Telescope” in 2024.

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Her most recent disc was “Face to Face (with Suzi Quatro)” in 2023.

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