2025
Lux Gratis album release presented by KRAAK @ Q-02, Brussels. Solo set with special guests Sam Comerford and Viktor Perdieus. Support from Steenkiste & Bischoff 21/2
Solo @ Reception Festival, Project Arts Centre, Dublin 14/2
Sound Thought presents: Michaela Antalová + Adrian Myhr, Armin Sturm + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Grace Stewart-Skinner @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 22/1
2024
Counterflows Presents: Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh + Wormhook + Rufus Isabel Elliot w/ Chihiro Ono @ Cafe Oto, London 12/9
No Home + Territorial Gobbings + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 15/6
Dome Riders + Chris Corsano + Earth Ball @ the Flying Duck, Glasgow 25/5
Kiran Leonard + Otis Jordan + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Glad Cafe, Glasgow 9/5
Duo with Lori Goldston @ The Dock, Carrick - on - Shannon, Leitrim 3/5
Solo @ Oscillations Festival, Brussels 1/5
Solo @ The Cube, Bristol as part of Bristol New Music Festival 28/4
Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees (2023) by Natalia Beylis - performed with Tóla Custy, Eimear Reidy and Willie Stewart
@ New Music Dublin, NCH, Dublin 27/ 4
Duo with Nathan Wheeler @ Baked Beans on the doorstep, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 24/4
Container + Will Guthrie + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ De Roes, Ghent, Belgium 9/2
Residency at Q-02, Brussels, Belgium - February
Residency at Sweeny's Bothy, Isle of Eigg - January
2023
Five Year Plan with Dome Riders @ Glad Cafe, Glasgow 8/12
Genghis Cohn + The Doozer + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ La Chunky, Glasgow 15/12
@ Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November
New work by Natalia Beylis - performed with Eimear Reidy, Tola Custy & Willie Stewart 23rd
Asymptote Versatile by Eliane Radigue - premier performance directed by Rhodri Davies 26th
with Jon Collin @ Old Hairdressers Glasgow 29/10
with Josephine Foster
Supersonic Festival, Birmingham 3/9
Green Man Festival, Bannau Brycheiniog 19/8
Residency and performance with Isadora Epstein @ Club Hybrid, Graz, Austria July 10-15
RAMP at Earagail Arts Festival, Donegal with Rob Casey, Aonghus McEvoy, David Lacey 9/7
dawson + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Rum Shack Glasgow 22/6
The Modern Institute + Measure Maniacs + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ QMU Glasgow 26/5
with Dome Riders @ Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 18/5
Richard Dawson + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ St Luke's, Glasgow 26/4
with Dome Riders at Floating Bridge #3 launch by Rob Churm and Malachy Duff @ Glasgow Project Rooms, 11/3
2022
Tongue Depressor + Dome Riders + Pefkin @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 29th January
Tongue Depressor + Off Brand + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ The Waverly, Edinburgh 30th January
with Josh Thorpe + Ailie Ormston + Eric Chenaux @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 3/12
solo at KRUT FEST, Ghent, Belgium 19/11
with Aonghus McEvoy Group @ The Globe, Newcastle 23/10
solo at Sonic Acts Biennial @ Het HEM, Amsterdam 8/10
with Lus - drums and viola duo with Andrew Cheetham at Tor Fest, Todmorden 24/9
Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire 12-14 August. Solo and with Quinie
w Dome Riders (Armin Sturm, Fritz Welch, Mike Parr-Burman) @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 20/5
New Mountain, Reaching Plane comission for members of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and two gamelan players @ Tectonics Festival Glasgow 1/5
Listen to an excerpt on Soundcloud
2021
McEvoy Ensemble plays works by Cornelius Cardew with Aonghus McEvoy, Rhodri Davies, David Lacey, Rob Casey 9/10 & 16/10
https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/cardew
@ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow with Raymond MacDonald, Jer Reid, Semay Wu 19/10
Solo at Alternating Current presented by DDR @ The Complex, Dublin 30 & 31/10
2020
Solo @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow + Cadaver Eyes + Adam Green/Ali Robertson + Tarantula 6/3
UnSelfing/Arrivals by Isadora Epstein with Davy Kehoe and Daniel McAuley @ Ceannt Train Station, Galway 29/2 as part of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Solo @ Anseo, Dublin 20/2
2019
Reception: Duos & Quartet with David Donohoe, David Lacey and Aonghus McEvoy @ Lutherhaus, Dublin 7/11
Arts & Rafts with Anna Clock, Sligo 2/11
Swiss Barns @ Tusk Festival, Gateshead 11-13/10
Alasdair Roberts & Friends UK Tour October
Solo @ Tor Fest, Todmorden 31/8
Solo @ V&A Museum, Dundee 2/8
w Alasdair Roberts & Friends @ Sheffield Folk Festival 6/7
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra w Joelle Leandre @ Glasgow Jazz Festival 23/6
w Josephine Foster @ Adam Smith Theatre, Kircaldy 15/6
Solo and w Alasdair Roberts & Friends @ Woolf II Festival, Cleeve House, Wiltshire 9/6
Timon of Athens and Dido and Aneas by Henry Purcell directed by Tiffany Vong @ Glasgow University 30/5 - 1/6
Duo with Andrew Cheetham + Ryoko Akama @ The Peer Hat, Manchester 14/5
w Josephine Foster & Band @ Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht 24/4
Beursschouwburg, Brussels 25/4
LSO St Luke's, London 28/4
'Thin gold chains link ears to the tip of their tongue.' An exhibition by Anne-Marie Copestake @ Cooper Gallery, Dundee. Performing solo and with Anna Clifford 28/3
Andrew Cheetham and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh duo and solo sets @ The Peer Hat, Manchester 29/1
Yerba Mansa + Andrew Cheetham and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh duo @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 30/1
2018
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Eastern Daze Festival, Ghent 23/11
Circuit des Yeux: Gaia Infinitus @ Le Guess Who, Utrect and European Tour 8 - 21/11
Reception: Rainfear + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Helen Roe Theatre, Dublin 1/11
Holiday Inn & Suites performing as Splay Toe @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 23/10
Willberg/Andreae Duo + Farmer/Lacey Duo + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh + Ali Robertson @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 20/10
KATE R&D Project @ Volcano Theatre, Abertawe/Swansea with Pat Thomas and Rhodri Davies directed by Paul Davies 1 - 11/8
Kellie Consort Summer Tour of Scotland 27-31/7 - J.S. Bach Cantatas 22, 77, 153 & 199 and H. Purcell Timon of Athens and The Fairy Queen
w Dominic Lash, Tony Bevan, Fritz Welch, Mike Parr-Burman @ Glad Cafe, Glasgow 29/6
Woven Skull @ Body & Soul Festival, Co Westmeath 23/6/2018
MAW Presents: Phil Minton & Maggie Nichols, GIO, Alexandra Spence, Sarah Kenchington, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Sean Armstrong Experience @ CCA, Glasgow 2/6
NAWR#3: Vicky Langan + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ BBC Hall, Abertawe Swansea 17/5
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Tor Beers, Todmorden 13/5
Glasgow International Festival with Anne-Marie Copestake @ Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 26/4
J.S.Bach Cantatas 150, 155 and 196 with Kellie Consort
Old St Paul's Church, Edinburgh 7/4
Saint Salvator's Chapel, St Andrews 8/4
Josephine Foster + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Glad Cafe, Glasgow 5/4
Gnod & Woven Skull tour of Ireland February
Alex Rex + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Glad Cafe, Glasgow 3/2
The Ballad of Shirley Collins film screening. Songs with Alasdair Roberts @ Glad Cafe, Glasgow 12/1
2017
Cian Nugent & Sean Carpio + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ Anseo, Dublin 22/12
The One Ensemble + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh solo at Glad Cafe, Glasgow 19/11
Woven Skull at Monastery of Sound Festival, The White Hotel, Manchester 4/11
w Tony Bevan and Armin Sturm at Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 21/10
Solo tape release & Woven Skull 10" release at Jigsaw, Dublin 25/08
Circuit des Yeux - OFF Festival, Poland 06/08
Woven Skull Tour July
Circuit des Yeux - Roskilde Festival, Denmark 01/07
Solo residency at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh June
Trio w Jon Collin and Aonghus Mc Evoy at Anseo, Dublin 15/06
‘Reception’ at Lutherhaus with Rhodri Davies, David Lacey and Rob Casey 20/05
Solo viola & tape delay set at Tengu 16/04
‘The Sound of Silents’ at Irish Film Institue. Live soundtracks to archive footage with Seán Mac Erlaine, Shane Latimer, Julius Gabriel, Florian Walter and Achim Zepezauer 08/04
Three Eyed Makara tour of the Irish mid-west March
Mayormaynot w Sean Maynard Smith, Darragh O’Kelly, Shane Clear, Brendan Doherty 26/01
2016
Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio with DIT Orchestra 07/12
'Bleed’ at Tiger Dublin Fringe with members of Bottlenote Collective 21/09
Composer and performer of music for Very Rich Hours play at Dublin Fringe Festival 13-17/09
Improvised viola duo set w Jorge Boehringer at Monk & the Nun Festival 13/08
‘Reception: TWO DUOS’ at Lutherhaus w David Donohoe 9/11
Trio with David Lacey and Aonghus Mc Evoy at Jigsaw Dublin 28/10
Dublin Feminist Film Fundraiser - duo with David Lacey 14/10
‘Reception’ - new works by Conal Ryan, Susan Geaney and Rob Casey at Lutherhaus 01/09
Woven Skull - Warzone Centre, Belfast June
Cian Nugent & the Cosmos - Moth Club, London May
Vivaldi Gloria with DIT Baroque Ensemble and Choir- Pro Cathedral April
2015
Composer and performer of music for The Fortune Teller play - Temple Bar Gallery December 2015
Circuit des Yeux - Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht November 2015
Circuit des Yeux - European tour October 2015
2014
Solo performance - Lilliput Press, Stoneybatter November 2014
Cian Nugent & the Cosmos - European Tour April 2014
'Celestial' by Anna Clifford, String Quartet Opus 121 Gabriel Faure - South Studios, Dublin 27/02/2014
2013
‘Joinery Off-Site’- duo with David Lacey - King House, Boyle, Co Roscommon 28/09/2013
w Josephine Foster & Gyða Valtýsdóttir - Irish tour August 2013
The Slow Air (duo of improvised music w David Lacey)- The Joinery 04/06/2013
2012
Josephine Foster & Band - Italian Tour December 2012
Josephine Foster & Band – Hunter's Moon Festival, Leitrim October 2012
'Biforking' 3D dronefield piece for viola, tape, electronics - The Joinery 18/05/2012
2011
w Cian Nugent & David Lacey - Cafe Oto , London October 2011
w Cian Nugent & David Lacey - The Cube, Bristol October 2011
2010
'Music for Viola, Piano and Percussion' graphic score by Rob Casey w David Lacey - Goethe Institute 26/05/ 2010