Jewel would like to set the record straight: She did not bail on Alaskans when two shows were canceled many years ago. And, yes, she’ll certainly show up at concerts scheduled this week.

“I was on tour on both occasions already and I’ve never double-booked anything in my life,” she says of long-standing reports that she canceled a New Year’s Eve concert to ring in 2000 as well as an appearance at the Alaska State Fair in 1996, when she was touring with Neil Young.

The 35-year-old singer-songwriter, born Jewel Kilcher, said she was never booked for the shows by her agency that she knew of and was surprised when people asked about her going to Alaska. It bothers her that so many Alaskans believe she abandoned the shows — some airing their resentments quite vociferously.

Her Alaska roots helped make her “a creative, independent, freethinking woman,” says Jewel, who was 6 when she began performing with her father in her hometown of Homer.

After leaving Alaska, she was living in a van in San Diego before vaulting from obscurity with her 1995 debut album, “Pieces of You,” and hits like “You Were Meant for Me” and “Who Will Save Your Soul.”

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