"4 Shillings Short" Concert

On Saturday, August 5^th at 3pm the Mendocino County Library, Ukiah Branch is hosting a concert with musical duo “4 Shillings Short.”

Formed by international husband and wife pair Aodh Oh O’Tuama and Christy Martin, 4 Shillings Short performs a mix of traditional and original music from the Celtic Lands, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, India and the Americas. The audience will be able to hear a range of instruments from the Hammered and Mountain Dulcimer, Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Tinwhistles, Recorders, Medieval and Renaissance Woodwinds, North Indian Sitar, Andean Charango, Medieval Psaltery, Banjo, Bodhran, Guitar, Ukelele, Percussion, and even a Krumhorn.

This concert is family-friendly and free to the public!

Aodh Og O’Tuama grew up in a family of poets, musicians and writers. He received his degree in Music from University College Cork, Ireland and received a Fellowship from Stanford University in California in Medieval

and Renaissance performance. He plays Tinwhistles, Medieval & Renaissance woodwinds, Recorders, Doumbek (from Morocco), bowed Psaltery, Spoons and sings both in English, Gaelic & French.

Christy Martin grew up in a family of musicians and dancers. From the age of 15, she studied North Indian Sitar for 10 years, 5 of them with a student of master Sitarist Ravi Shankar. She began playing the Hammered Dulcimer in her 20’s and has studied with Maggie Sansone, Dan Duggan, Cliff Moses, Robin Petrie, Tony Elman and Glen Morgan. In addition she plays Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Banjo, Guitar, Bodhran (Irish frame drum), Charango, bowed Psaltery and sings in English, Irish, Spanish and Sanskrit.