Four Shillings Short – CANCELLED

Aodh Og O’Tuama and Christy Martin
Celtic, Folk, and World Music

The husband/wife duo of Aodh Og O’Tuama from Cork, Ireland and Christy Martin from California, have been performing together since 1995. They tour in the US and Ireland, are independent folk artists with 12 recordings, perform 150 concerts a year, and live as troubadours of old, traveling from town to town, performing at music festivals, theaters and performing arts centers, folk and historic societies, libraries, museums, and schools.

Aodg Og O’Tuama: vocals, tin whistles, doumbek, spoons, gemshorn, bowed psaltery, recorders, crumhorn, Native American flutes, and many others.

Born in Cork, Ireland, Aodh Og (pronounced, Ayog) studied Medieval and Renaissance music in college. He received a music fellowship to study at Stanford University in 1984. He played in a group called Drivelling Druids before forming the group Four Shillings Short.

Christy Martin: vocals, hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, mandolin, mandola and bouzouki, banjo, North Indian sitar, guitar, charango, bowed psaltery, ukulele, and bodhran.

A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Christy was born into a musical family. She played the sitar for 10 years, starting at the age of 16. She took up folk music in the 1980s, and has been playing the hammered dulcimer since 1993. She was formerly in a band called Your Mother Should Know.

Tickets $10 per person.

For ticket reservations, call the Leeds Arts Council at (205) 699-1892, leave a message, someone will return your call. OR, email leedsartscouncilal@gmail.com