Christine Tobin - A Thousand Kisses Deep

Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes approx with an interval

Multi-award winning artist Christine Tobin sings from her highly acclaimed CD ‘A Thousand Kisses Deep’, new arrangements of Cohen songs. Christine has earned a reputation as a both a spellbinding interpreter and original writer. Here she weaves her magic with the poetic genius of Leonard Cohen. In 2013 she won a ‘Herald Angel Award’ at the Edinburgh Fringe for this show and in a 5 star review BBC Music Magazine wrote that she had ‘struck gold with this album’. Her stellar band is Huw Warren accordion & piano, Phil Robson guitar, Dave Whitford double bass and from Brazil percussionist Adriano Adewale.

Christine has performed and recorded with a list of diverse creative artists, including musicians Julian Joseph, Nigel Kennedy, Django Bates, Billy Childs, Carleen Anderson, Cleveland Watkiss, Liam Noble & Billy Hart, actor Gabriel Byrne, film director Mike Figgis and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon. In 2012 she won a British Composer Award for her settings of poems by WB Yeats and in 2014 she won ‘Jazz Vocalist of the Year’ at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. She appears regularly on the international scene and her debut performance at the U.S. Rochester International Jazz Festival last year drew record audiences. Other hit performances include, Shanghai Jazz Festival, Cork Jazz Festival and Berlin Jazz Festival. Christine has also presented programmes for BBC Radio 3 and RTE Lyric FM.

★★★★ ‘Christine Tobin is inspiring on her own material. But she is in a class of her own singing Leonard Cohen. Her new version of Everybody Knows is stunning…..Gorgeous, affecting and deeply human’ The Guardian

‘The Voice is a killer’ Froots

‘There’s something inherently right when vocalist Christine Tobin sings Leonard Cohen. Christine’s ear for lyrical detail, coupled with her sensitivity to the singular mood of each song, combines to magical effect.’ Jazzwise