Four Shillings Short - a Free Concert at Silver City Library Nov 21st

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Published: 15 November 2017 15 November 2017

FOUR SHILLINGS SHORT
A FREE CONCERT at the Library Tuesday November 21 from 6 pm - 8 pm
Rooted in Celtic and American folk, inspired by Indian Raga and Ethnic idioms;
a diverse and inventive Traditional Music Experience.

Friends' Talk

A Publication of the Friends of the Library of Silver City, NM
November 2017

FOUR SHILLINGS SHORT
A FREE CONCERT at the Library Tuesday November 21 from 6 pm - 8 pm

Rooted in Celtic and American folk, inspired by Indian Raga and Ethnic idioms; a diverse and inventive Traditional Music Experience.

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 the Troubadours of old traveling from town to town performing at music festivals, theatres and performing arts centers, folk & 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 Óg (pronounced, ayog) studied Medieval and Renaissance music in college. He received a music fellowship to study at Stanford University in 1984. 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. Took up folk music in the '80's. Has been playing hammered dulcimer since 1993. She was formerly in a band called Your Mother Should Know.
You can learn more about Four Shillings Short at http://www.4shillingsshort.com/weBe.htm

Free concert made possible by the Friends of the Library!

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