Improvised Music Company presents Returning Weather, the latest work and twelfth album release from Dublin born vocalist and songwriter Christine Tobin.

Christine is celebrated for her versatile, nonconformist musical spirit and her “..a 24-carat voice” [The Guardian]. After leaving Dublin to attend the Guildhall School of Music, she became an integral part of the creative music scene in London & later in NYC where she moved to in 2015. Her accolades include a BASCA British Composer Award; an Edinburgh Festival ‘Herald Angel Award’; ‘Jazz Vocalist of the Year’ at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards and ‘Best Vocalist’ at the BBC Jazz Awards.

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 Ballaghaderreen. There are many songs of leaving and farewell, this is the music of homecoming and return!