Georgia Beatty is a musician and folk artist bewitched by cycle, lineage and the alchemical process of healing.
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THE BOOK OF STARS
a new album, folktale and magic lantern theatre show
APPRENTICE TO TRANSFORMATION
original and traditional fiddle tunes
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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 intertwined with old-style theatrical arts and storytelling.
Her most recent project, The Book of Stars, brings together music, story and the analog projector technology known as a "magic lantern" to tell the tale of the ancient Light Queen who uses her ancestral songs to heal the world from oppressive powers. Each chapter from The Book of Stars folktale 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 art; the magic lantern show is a performance of the album & folktale with projected illustrations of the Light Queen's story.
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 foundational element in Georgia's work and she continues her studies of regional styles used for dance with master hardanger fiddler Loretta Kelley. She can be found playing fiddle and hardingfele regularly for the DC-based Mid-Atlantic Norwegian Dancers.
Georgia lives and works in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.
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