Feb 2 2025 - 4:00 PM
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 United States and Ireland, are independent folk-artists with thirteen recordings, perform 100 concerts per year, and live as the troubadours of old, traveling from town to town performing at music festivals, theaters, performing arts centers, folk and historical 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 1983. He played in a group called Drivelling Druids before forming the group Four Shillings Short.
Christy Martin: vocals, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, mandola, 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 ten years, starting at the age of sixteen. She took up folk music in the 1980s. She has been playing hammered dulcimer since 1993. She was formerly in a band called Your Mother Should Know.