Program - Celtic, Folk & World Music Concert with Four Shillings Short

Celtic, Folk & World Music Concert with Four Shillings Short

Traditional & Original music from the Celtic Lands, Medieval & Renaissance Europe, India and the Americas

TUESDAY: OCTOBER 6, 2026 @ 6:00 – 7:30pm
JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY – BUFFALO BRANCH
171 N. Adams Ave., Buffalo, WY 82834
(307) 684-5546 https:///www.jclwyo.org
Free Family Concert

Four Shillings Short perform Traditional & Original music from the Celtic Lands,
Medieval & Renaissance Europe, India and the Americas on a fantastic collection of world
instruments: Hammered & Mountain dulcimer, Mandolins, Renaissance Woodwinds,
North Indian Sitar, Recorders & Tinwhistles, Banjo, Guitar, Charango, Psaltery,
percussion, vocals & even a Krumhorn.

After 31 years of touring in the US & Ireland, Four Shillings Short are launching
their Farewell Tour which will last from Summer 2026 through the Winter 2028. In
those 2 ½ years, the duo will travel to all their favorite towns and venues in the 
United States one final time before retiring to live in Ireland.

The husband/wife duo of Aodh Og O’Tuama from Cork, Ireland and Christy Martin
from California, met in Palo Alto, California back in 1995 at St. Michael’s Alley, 
which at that time was one of the top folk & acoustic music venues in the San
Francisco Bay Area. They fell in love, got married in 1996, and began touring
nationally in 1997. On their first tour of the US, they performed 60 concerts in 90
days in 30 States and drove 30,000 miles.

Their music is a mix of Traditional and Original music from the Celtic lands, 
Medieval & Renaissance Europe, India and the Americas which they perform on a
fantastic array of instruments (over 30) including Hammered & Mountain
Dulcimer, Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Recorders, Tinwhistles, Medieval and
Renaissance Woodwinds, North Indian Sitar, Charango, Bowed Psaltery, Banjo,
Native American Flutes, Bodhran, Guitar, Ukulele, Doumbek & Darbuka, Spoons,
vocals and even a Krumhorn.

Four Shillings Short performs 80 concerts a year, have released 13 recordings and live
as full-time Troubadours, performing at music festivals, theatres & performing arts
centers, folk societies, libraries, house concerts, retirement communities, schools &
churches. They also lead Archaeology, Music and Folklore tours in Ireland every year.

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), Darbuka (from Egypt), Medieval Bowed Psaltery, Native American Flute, Wooden Spoons and sings both in English, Gaelic & French.

Christy Martin grew up in a family of musicians and dancers. From the age of 15, began her
training on the North Indian Sitar, studying with Tony Karasek (a student of master Sitarist Ravi Shankar) and Rahul Sariputra (a student of Allaudin Khan). In her 20’s she took up the
Hammered Dulcimer and studied with Maggie Sansone, Dan Duggan, Cliff Moses, Robin Petrie, Tony Elman and Glen Morgan. She also plays Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Banjo, Guitar, Bodhran (Irish frame drum), Andean Charango, Medieval Psaltery, Ukulele and sings in English, Irish and Sanskrit.