Christine Tobin brings her Returning to Life project to Thomastown
Dublin-born singer songwriter Christine Tobin will bring her newest project Returning Weather to Life at the Concert Hall in Thomastown on March 1.
Christine is celebrated for her versatile, nonconformist musical spirit and her golden voice. This new project, 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.
Christine will be performing alongside her band - Cora Venus Lunny (violin, viola), David Power (uilleann pipes, whistles), Steve Hamilton (piano) and Phil Robson guitar (electronics).
Doors are at 8pm and tickets are €20 and are available to book on eventbrite.com
For more information and updates see christine-tobin.com