Locals and visitors have a variety of entertainment options this weekend. Some are historical. Some are spooky. All of it is meant to be fun.

    One of those options is a Samhain/Halloween Concert tonight, celebrating the Celtic New Year with music, stories and poetry at Sage Coffee and Books, 2300 Front St. The husband and wife duo, Four Shillings Short, is scheduled to perform 8 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

    Aodh Og O’Tuama, from Cork, Ireland, and Christy Martin, from California, are independent folk artists who travel the world performing at folk festivals, theaters, performing arts centers, coffee houses, folk societies, libraries and schools.

    “We go around the world in 30 instruments,” Martin said in a recent telephone interview. “We take people on a journey, from 1,000 years ago to the present.”

    Four Shillings Short has recorded 10 albums and they perform about 200 shows a year. Their show tonight at Sage Coffee and Books follows performances Thursday at Fenian’s Irish Pub in Jackson, and Friday at Southbound Bagel & Coffee Shop in Hattiesburg.

    O’Tuama grew up in a family of poets, musicians and writers. He received his degree in Music from University College Cork, Ireland and received a Fellowship from Stanford University in California in Medieval and Renaissance performance. He plays Tinwhistles, Medieval and Renaissance woodwinds, Recorders, Dumbek (from Morocco), bowed Psaltery, Spoons and sings both in English and Gaelic.

    Martin grew up in a family of musicians and dancers. From the age of 15, she studied North Indian Sitar for 10 years with a student of master Sitarist Ravi Shankar. She began playing the Hammered Dulcimer in her 20s and has studied with Maggie Sansone, Dan Duggan, Cliff Moses, Robin Petrie, Tony Elman and Glen Morgan. In addition she plays Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Banjo, Guitar, Bodhran (Irish frame drum), Charango, bowed Psaltery and sings in English, Irish, Spanish and Sanskrit.

    “We keep playing music, inspiring people to get in touch with their inspiration and find their passion,” Martin said.

    Here are some other events planned in the area this weekend:

    • State Games of Mississippi presents the Boo Run today at Bonita Lakes Park. The Mini Boo Run for children age 12 and under begins at 9:30 a.m. The 5K Boo Run starts at 10:45 a.m.

    • The Jefferson Performing Arts Society presents “Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood” today at 11 a.m. at the Temple Theater, 2320 Eighth St. Tickets are $15 for children 12 and under, $20 for adults.

    • The Historic Rose Hill Cemetery Tour will be held today beginning at 6 p.m. About 25 stops are scheduled for the tour, featuring historians and storytellers dressed in the time period of the people buried there.

    Admission is free. The cemetery is located off Eighth Street and parking is available across the street at Calvary Baptist Church and the Mustard Tree Thrift Store.

    • The 3rd Annual Haunted Firehouse at Bailey Fire Station No. 3, 10116 Highway 495, continues this evening, 7 p.m.-midnight. The Haunted Firehouse also will be open Oct. 27, 7 p.m.-10 p.m., Oct. 28 and 29, 7 p.m.-until, and Oct. 31, 7 p.m.-10 p.m. Admission is $5.

    • The Watcher’s Council Film Society Drive-In at Thunder Ridge, Highway 19 North at County Road 185 at Philadelphia will show the 1981 horror film “The Evil Dead” at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5 per person.

    • Haunted Temple Tours begin at the Temple Theater on Sunday and will continue through Oct. 31. The tours begin at 7 p.m. in the Temple Ballroom. Admission is $5 for all ages.