Upcoming engagements:

David will perform a concert of newly composed Irish songs at the San Francisco Folk Music Club’s Camp Harmony during the New Year’s weekend retreat.

Recent Guest artist gigs in Ireland

An Góilín Traditional Singers, Dublin, 28 April, 2023

Rosie Stewart’s Rainbow Singing Circle, Glenfarne, Co. Leitrim, 23 April, 2023

Sligo Traditional Singers, Ballinacarrow, 12 April, 2023

Cork Singers’s Club, Cork City, 15 May, 2022

Sunflower Folk Club, Belfast, 19 May, 2022

Previous virtual concerts and appearances:

I was the guest artist at The Song House raking session Sunday, 24 October, ‘21

My set in the Tumbleweed Music Festival, 2021, produced by the Three Rivers Folklife Society, can be heard on Vimeo HERE.

Cloistered Celtic Concert, Three Rivers Folklife Society’s St. Patrick’s Day concert, 2021. My set is in the middle of five sets, all worth listening to, HERE.

Love, Irish Style: songs and stories of Irish love, HERE.

Beginnings, Irish Songs about First Steps, HERE.

Past events:

David has performed concerts and led workshops throughout the Northwest and beyond for several decades.

Beginnings: Irish Songs about First Steps, HERE.

Laugh Away the Darkness: light-hearted and comic Irish songs, HERE.

Songs of Drink and Drinkers: https://youtu.be/XdCHn0Xnxh0

The Struggle for Dignity: https://youtu.be/uHqmgViF76U

Tumbleweed Music Festival, 2020: https://vimeo.com/439632757

Recent concerts:

House concert in Takoma Park, Maryland, Oct., 2024

Concerts:

A soloist (singing a traditional Irish song) with the Oregon Repertory Singers (1985)

Eugene Folklore Society

The Best Cellar, Corvallis

Portland FolkMusic Society

Pacific Northwest Folklore Society stage at Couth Buzzard, Seattle

and personally produced solo concerts at the Community Music Center and Lucky Lab Brewhouse in Portland

Workshops (on Irish songs and on singing technique):

Rainy Camp, Seattle (Zoom festival, Jan., ‘23)

Camp New Harmony, SF Bay Area (Zoom festival, January, 2023)

O’Flaherty Irish Music Retreat near Dallas, Texas, October, 2022

Bellingham Celtic Festival, October, 2022

Tumbleweed Music Festival, Richland, Wash., Sept., 2022, 2023, and several times before

Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle, May, 2023 and many times before.

Singtime Frolics, Portland, March, 2022

Sean-nós Festival, Olympia

Vancouver Folk Song Society Fall Retreat, BC

The Getaway, Washington, DC

Festival performances:

Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle (many times from 1984 through 2023)

Oregon Folklife Festival, Corvallis

Tumbleweed Music Festival, Richland, Wash.

Princeton Traditional Music Festival, Princeton, BC

Pub gigs:

Monthly at TC O'Leary's Irish Pub, at Oíche na nAmhrán (Night of Song) since November, 2017. Most third Thursdays.

TC O’Leary’s, 2926 NE Alberta, Portland, Oregon, 8:00: Oíche na nAmhrán (Night of Song)