The Tower
19th December 2025
THE TOWER is inspired by the tarot card, evoking feelings of sudden change, chaos, revelation, destruction and liberation. The falling characters symbolise unsteady ground, the destruction of materialistic thinking and a leap into the unknown. The TOWER marked the last event at at 31 Nicholas street, with performances from Aoife Hammond, Rísteard Ó hÁodha, Natalia Beylis, Olan Monk & Peadar-Tom Mercier and Willie Stewart.
+ hospitality by Mobys / Alice Costello and Teresa Collins /
Based between Leitrim and Clare, Aoife Hammond is a singer, composer, and
multi-instrumentalist. They work as a session musician and sound artist, creating original electronic and acoustic scores using synthesisers, bouzouki, guitars, mandolin, and voice.Rooted in Irish traditional music and sean-nós singing, Aoife’s repertoire centres on songs of resistance, oral history, and the relationship between land and culture. Their musical practice moves fluidly between tradition and experimentation, with a particular focus on sound as a carrier of memory and grief.
Risteárd Ó hÁodha is an experimental musician, composer and multimedia artist. His primary instruments are the piano and cello which he performs both solo and within different bands and ensembles such as Róis, Gemma Dunleavy, Prin€ess and Trinity Orchestra. He is interested in the perspective that the Irish language and its Dinnseanchas (Irish toponymy) gives oneself to the landscape and environment of Ireland. Creative coding and multimedia play a large part in his artistic practice.
Olan Monk is a musician, performer and writer from Conamara. They co-founded C.A.N.V.A.S. with Lugh O’Neill as an events series and record label, established in 2018 to give collective agency to an increasingly dispersed community of artists. Their practice involves experimental and popular songwriting, performing solo and in collaboration with other musicians, including featured recordings and performances with Ashley Paul, Actress, Elvin Brandhi, James K, Maria Somerville and Michael Speers. Past releases include Love/Dead (2020) and Auto Life (2021) on C.A.N.V.A.S., Dubplate 08 (2022) on AD 93, and Songs For Nothing (2025).
Natalia Beylis is a musician and sonic storyteller whose work drifts between multi-instrumental exploration, field recordings and layered textures. She has released over 40 albums across solo anollaborative projects, and her work draws deeply on the environment around her — “bird song, creaky trees, farm animals, the northwesterly breeze and rainfall.”
Willie Stewart is a multi-instrumentalist and founder of Nyahh Records, one of the most distinctive homes for experimental and traditional music in Ireland at the moment. His sets weave together experimental music, folk, global sounds and banging tunes for dancing. Expect anything from Mohammad Syfkhan to The Bug, old-time recordings, and Irish experimental releases to keep us all dancing.