Four Shillings Short sings forits supper at Murphy’s

That Cork-California musical crossing rears once again July 28 at Murphy’s Irish Pub, when Celtic duo Four Shilling Short take the stage for an evening of folk and world music at its finest.

Four Shillings Short is the husband and wife duo of Aodh Og O’Tuama from Cork, Ireland and Christy Martin from California – who will perform traditional and original music from the Celtic lands, medieval and Renaissance Europe, India and the Americas. The band performs on an array of more than 30 instruments including hammered and mountain dulcimer, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, tinwhistles, recorders, Medieval and Renaissance woodwinds, North Indian sitar, charango, bowed psaltery, banjo, bodhran, guitar, percussion, vocals and even a krumhorn.

Four Shillings Short has toured the U.S. and Ireland for nearly 20 years, performing 150 concerts a year. They’ve released 12 recordings and describe themselves as “full-time troubadours traveling from town to town performing at music festivals, theaters and performing arts centers, folk societies, libraries, house concerts and schools.”

According to the musicians, Aodh Og O’Tuama grew up in a family of poets, musicians and writers and received his degree in music from University College Cork, Ireland. He sings in English, Gaelic and French.

Christy Martin grew up in a family of musicians and dancers and studied North Indian sitar for 10 years, five of them with a student of master Sitarist Ravi Shankar. She sings in English, Irish, Spanish and Sanskrit.

The show is from 8 to 10 p.m. at 464 First St. E. Call 935-0660.