Live Dates

ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR

RETURNING WEATHER Tour March 2023

New music, new album!! New band:
Cora Venus Lunny violin, viola,
David Power uilleann pipes, whistles
Steve Hamilton piano Phil Robson guitar, electronics.
Christine Tobin, vocals, spoken word & composition

Returning Weather is the latest work from Dublin born multi-award-winning vocalist and songwriter Christine Tobin. Celebrated for her versatility and nonconformist musical spirit, Returning Weather imaginatively weaves song, spoken word, visual effects and a stellar group of musicians from diverse disciplines together, creating a multi-dimensional sound-world which blends influences from folk, 20th-century art song and jazz. It charts a journey which is part homecoming, part memoir, inspired by Christine’s return to Ireland after many years abroad and explores themes of finding home, dwelling and landscape, reconnecting with a cultural background, reshaping a sense of identity and belonging. The songs are set in the countryside around Frenchpark, Boyle and Ballaghadereen. There are many songs of leaving and farewell, this is the music of homecoming and return. She was commissioned to write this evocative new song cycle by The Dock Arts Centre, with an Arts Council, Music Commissions Award.

TOUR DATES

1st March DUBLIN NCH John Field Room presented by the IMC
https://www.nch.ie/Online/article/Christine-Tobin-01Mar23
Box Office phone open Mon to Fri 10am to 2pm on +3531 417 0000

2nd March   LIMERICK Limerick Jazz at Dolans (booking links coming soon)

3rd March CORK Triskel Arts Website: https://triskelartscentre.ie/events/christine-tobin/ Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873631774

4th March WESTPORT Town Hall https://westporttownhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873641751Phone: +353 98 28459

8th March WEXFORD National Opera House JeromeHaynesTheatre https://www.nationaloperahouse.ie/whats-on/show/christine-tobinBox office +353 53 912 2144

9th March    THOMASTOWN Co, Kilkenny. The Concert Hall
(tix link coming soon) or book in person at venue

10th March LETTERKENNY RCC https://regionalculturalcentre.com/events/christine-tobin-with-cora-venus-lunny-david-power-phil-robson-steve-hamilton/ Tel: 0749129186

11th March CARRICK ON SHANNON The Dock Arts
https://www.thedock.ie/whats-on/returning-weather Tel:071 965 0828

18th March ENNIS CO CLARE GLOR
https://glor.ie/events/christine-tobin-presents-returning-weathe/ Tel:065 684 3103

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Recent past dates……

October 28th
VORTEX
Outside the Box – Christine with Liam Noble piano

October 27th
SEVEN ARTS
with Phil Robson guitar & Dave Whitford double bass

September 11th
THE WORKMAN’S CLUB – DUBLIN JAZZ CO-OP
Women in Jazz Series. Singing with guitarist Phil Robson

August 22nd
Recording a new album ‘Returning Weather’
Cora Venus Lunny violin, David Power uilleann, pipes,
Steve Hamiliton piano & Phil Robson guitar & electronics

August 19th
SNAPE MALTINGS U.K.
The Dome Stage, Snape, BRITTENPEARS ARTS

August 6th
THE DOCK ‘A Thousand Kisses Deep’
with Phil Robson guitar & Dan Bodwell doule bass
Carrick-on-Shannon

July 19th – 24th
SLIGO JAZZ PROJECT http://sligojazz.ie/

June 12
FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE & IDEAS
No Strangers Here Christine Tobin,
with Cora Venus Lunny viola & violin, Phil Robson guitar
and Dan Bodwell double bass. Borris House,
Co. Carlow https://festivalofwritingandideas.com/

May 21st
SPELLS BAR Ballaghaderreen
Christine Tobin vocals & Phil Robson guitar
Start 9:30pm. https://www.facebook.com/SpellsBar/

MAY 9
LONDON PIZZA EXPRESS JAZZ CLUB SOHO
CHRISTINE TOBIN ‘You’ve Got A Friend’
with LIAM NOBLE piano & PHIL ROBSON gtr.

APRIL 30
LONDON Jazz Cafe POSK
CHRISTINE TOBIN ‘TOWER of SONG’
with PHIL ROBSON guitar & DAVE WHITFORD
double bass I

APRIL 29
TEIGNMOUTH PAVILIONS
CHRISTINE TOBIN ‘TOWER of SONG’
with PHIL ROBSON guitar & DAVE WHITFORD
double bass. tix 01626 249049

April 21
SOFA SESSIONS at Billy Byrne’s
Christine Tobin with Phil Robson guitar
39 John Street Upper, Kilkenny

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Past Dates

November 23rd – 27th  2021
THE DOCK ARTS CENTRE – ‘Returning Weather’
Christine with Cora Venus Lunny violin, David Power uileann pipes
Phil Robson guitar & electronics, Steve Hamiliton piano & keys.
Christine spends a week at Carrick-on-Shannon’s ‘Dock’
rehearsing, recording & filming ‘Returning Weather’.
The Dock was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland
New Music Commission Award for Christine
to create this new work. More details soon

October 22nd  2021
WESTIVAL – WESTPORT MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
WESTPORT JAZZ present Christine at Town Hall Theatre

October 13 2021
MASTERS OF TRADITION
The legendary festival curated by Martin Hayes and presented by
West Cork Music.  Christine Tobin with Phil Robson guitar &
Francesco Turrisi piano & accordion playing music from her
award–winning settings of W.B. Yeats poems, ‘Sailing To Byzantium’.
Filmed in the elegant setting of Bantry House.

December 8th 2020
FALCARRAGH JAZZ FESTIVAL – livestream with
Phil Robson guitar & Conor Murray double bass

September 20th 2020
LIMERICK JAZZ FESTIVAL
Christine Tobin & Phil Robson duo at Dolans

April 8th 2020  Cancelled due to Covid-19
NEW YORK Irish Arts Center
‘Tobin”s Run on 51’ – Jazz at the Movies
Christine & Phil Robson with Steve Wilson alto sax, Jed Levy tenor sax
Steve Nelson vibraphone, James Genus bass & Clarence Penn drms
(Full description coming very soon) irishartscenter.org

March 17th 2020
NEW YORK National Sawdust, Brooklyn. ‘Against The Grain’ hosted by Paul Muldoon. https://nationalsawdust.org/
Cancelled due to Covid-19

March 10th 2020
NEW YORK
MEZZROW with Phil Robson guitar & Sam Bevan bass
two sets 7:30pm – 8:30pm & 9 – 10pm
163 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014  www.mezzrow.com

January 1st 2020
NEW YORK
Bar Next Door, MacDougal St. in the Village

December 25th 2019
New York 55 Bar special Christmas Day gig 7 – 9pm

October 10
NEW YORK IRISH ARTS CENTER
Tobin’s Run on 51 – ‘Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen’
This episode of Tobin’s Run looks at the influence of gospel
and the blues in jazz.

October 24
BALTIMORE   AN DIE MUSIK
Christine with Phil Robson guitar & Dezron Douglas bass

October 27
NEW YORK  RIZZOLI BOOKSTORE

September 14
VOICES OF POETRY at Southampton Cultural Center. NY.
Christine with poet Eva Salzman & pianist Angelica Sanchez

August 27
NEW YORK  Irish Repertory Theatre
Sailing To Byzantium
A program of 12 poems by WB Yeats set to music by Christine.

July 21
New York 55 Bar
Christine Tobin vox with Phil Robson guitar & Dezron Douglas

Rochester International Jazz Festival 2019
June 29 Christine Tobin at Christ Church

PAST TOURS

PELT – WINTER UK TOUR 2018 – 2019

This tour was organised by Right Tempo Agency & funded by the Arts Council of England. My latest album, PELT is a collection of my musical settings of poems & lyrics by the Pulitzer prize winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon. This UK tour will be the first time to really explore this music live & the band I’m taking on the road is amazing! I’ll have Gareth Lockrane – flutes, Phil Robson – guitar/electronics, Steve Hamilton – piano/keyboard/laptop, Kate Shortt – cello/vocals/deaf signing, Richard Jones – violin, Dave Whitford – upright/electric bass, Simon Lea – drums & of course me on vocals. We will also be joined by Paul Muldoon for one performance as well as by NYC poet Eva Salzman on 2 other gigs. For full venue details see http://righttempoagency.com/concerts/christine-tobin/

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