CHRISTINE TOBIN,Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Fri 7.30pm 051-855038; Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Co Kerry Sat 9pm 066-7123055; Carnegie Arts Centre, Kenmare, Co Kerry Sun 7.30pm 064-6648701; Triskel @Jurys Cork Hotel Tues 8pm 021-4272022; Kelly's, Galway Wed 091-563804; Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Thurs 7.30pm 01-2724301

Only a few world-class performers have emerged from the Irish jazz scene. One of them is Dubliner Christine Tobin. Based in London for many years, Tobin has followed a studiously personal path as a singer and songwriter that has won her the kind of accolades bestowed on only a few, including comparisons with the likes of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

This rare and thoroughly personal artist is, as the comparisons suggest, a one- off, and this week and next she’s back for an extended tour here with a trio that includes the outstanding guitarist Phil Robson.

ALSO worth noting, in these days of cutbacks in arts funding, is that the enlightened sponsorship of jazz by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Co Council continues with its autumn series in Cabinteely House, where guitarist Joe O’Callaghan premieres a suite of original pieces to be performed by a jazz quintet next Thursday.

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Louis Stewart Quartet

Sun, Dublin