Christine Tobin

A wonderful evening of classic songs from the ever popular Great American Songbook by 2014 'Jazz Vocalist of the Year', Parliamentary Jazz Award winner Christine Tobin. With ten highly acclaimed CDs under her own name and four major awards under her belt, Christine is now treasured as one of the leading lights on the UK and international scene. She has led various projects over the years and is renowned for her originality, beguiling rich voice and superb bands. Peter Bacon of The Jazz Breakfast writes, "She sings so naturally; there is no affectation here, just the most sensitive of song interpretation, profound in intelligence of both the mental and emotional kind. And yet worn so lightly! She invites you right into the centre of the story. She often also manages to improve our understanding of the original, and always to shed new light on it...she has that richness of tone and timbre that, while being all her own, also share something with Sarah Vaughan and Betty Carter – at least to my ears. Sophisticated Lady seems to me a challenge just to sing properly; to sing it this well takes something really special." In 2012 she won a British Composer Award for 'Sailing to Byzantium', her settings of poems by W.B. Yeats and in August 2013 her interpretive powers were brought to the fore when she won a 'Herald Angel Award' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her show 'A Thousand Kisses Deep". Her programme for this concert marks a return to the classics and includes favourites by Jerome Kern, Ellington, Gershwin, Michel Le Grand and many more. Christine's stellar band are; A-list jazz guitarist Phil Robson, Dave Whitford double bass & drums tbc.

Under 16 years with an accompanying adult go free to this event.