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Christine Tobin – The Long Road/An Bothar Fada -Culture Night, Boyle at Creighton’s Bar, Boyle 7-8pm.
Entry is free but please email [email protected] if you’re definitely coming to help them organise seating.
Multi-award-winning and world renowned vocalist/composer Christine Tobin presents a programme of songs which explores themes of journey, growth, and resilience including originals alongside new arrangements of Tom Waits, Dylan, L. Cohen, Percy French, plus Tobin’s musical settings of WB Yeats, Paul Muldoon and more.
Christine Tobin – vocals https://www.christinetobin.org
Phil Robson – guitar https://www.philrobsonmusic.com
Damian Evans – double bass https://www.damianevans.net
Christine Tobin grew up in Dublin, later moving to London to attend the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She was an integral part of the London contemporary scene for many years before moving to New York in 2015 where she made a considerable impact on the city’s creative music world. She returned to Ireland in 2020. ‘Returning Weather’, released in March 2023, was Christine’s twelfth album under her own name. In 2012 she won a BASCA British Composer Award for her settings of poems by WB Yeats, ‘Sailing To Byzantium’. The following year, her arrangements of Leonard Cohen songs won a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2014 she was awarded ‘Jazz Vocalist of the Year’ at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Earlier in 2008, she won a BBC Jazz Award for ‘Best Vocalist’. Aside from her own projects, she has worked and recorded with an array of artists including musicians Django Bates, Billy Hart, Julian Joseph, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Turner, Louis Stewart, Nigel Kennedy, Jean Toussaint, Francesco Turrisi, Ingrid Jensen, poets Paul Muldoon, Eva Salzman, Don Paterson, actor Gabriel Byrne and film director Mike Figgis. She has played at major festivals and venues around the world.
Link to access the online content:
https://www.youtube.com/@christinetobin397 & https://www.instagram.com/ctobinvox/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Creightons Bar, Boyle Shopping Arcade, Bridge Street, Boyle, County Roscommon, F52 FH11, Ireland, Sligo
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