Four Shillings Short:

Rooted in Celtic and American folk, inspired by Indian Raga and Ethnic idioms; a diverse and inventive TraditionalB0007A1IT0 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 & 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

Dodging Lodging is a relatively recent release featuring Christy Martin on vocals, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, sitar and bodhran, and Aodh Og O Tuama on vocals, tinwhistles, recorder, spoons and dumbek. It is a selection of their work recorded at various concerts from 1997 through 1999.