Many happy returns

Brian Sandford, The Santa Fe New Mexican
·1 min read

Nov. 18—Irish and world music duo Four Shillings Short clearly appreciates Santa Fe during the holidays, as the husband-and-wife team is returning for a fourth consecutive year to perform in celebration of winter.

The band, consisting of Aodh Og O'Tuama from Cork, Ireland, and Christy Martin from California, performs music from Celtic lands, and attendees can expect to see an array of possibly unfamiliar instruments. Martin plays hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, mandolin, banjo, North Indian sitar, guitar, charango, bowed psaltery, ukulele, and bodhrán, while O'Tuama plays tin whistles, doumbek, spoons, gemshorn, bowed psaltery, recorders, krumhorn, and Native American flutes. Both sing, tell stories, and recite poems.

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, $15 or $20, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguasnm.org