Georgia Beatty is a musician and folk artist bewitched by cycle, lineage and the alchemical process of healing.
THE BOOK OF STARS
a new album, folktale and magic lantern theatre show
LISTEN to the album READ the folktale WATCH the magic lantern show
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Georgia Beatty is a musician and folk artist bewitched by cycle, lineage and the alchemical process of healing. She performs on cello and voice, offering haunting songs that create an expansive world; one with luminous harmonies and mercurial rhythms that are both intimate and far-reaching. Her music is often performed with shadow theatre and the analog projector technology known as a "magic lantern".
Georgia's most recent project, The Book of Stars, brings together music, story and the magic lantern to tell the original tale of an ancient Light Queen who uses her ancestral songs to heal the world. Each chapter from The Book of Stars storybook correlates with a song on the album that listeners describe as "unguarded", "timeless" and "equal parts stealth and sensuality". Under the glow of Georgia's hand-painted illustrations; the magic lantern show is a live telling of the folktale interspersed with songs from the album.
Apprentice to Transformation, Georgia's first record, was released in 2022 and includes original and traditional music performed on fiddle and voice. Informed by her study in Norwegian folk music, the album explores the practice of experiencing death as a transformative moment in a cycle, rather than the end. Traditional fiddling remains a foundation of Georgia's work and she can be found playing both regular fiddle and Hardanger fiddle regularly for dance and concert.
Georgia lives and works in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.
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