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THE BOOK OF STARS: COLLECTION OF
THE HEIR

Sing To Me
00:00 / 02:57

​Songs and stories

about the time 

Light Queen 

sang the Earth healed. ​

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A new album, folktale & magic lantern theatre show

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THE BOOK OF STARS: STORIES OF THE LIGHT QUEEN

Each song in the "Collection of the Heir" correlates to a chapter in the story of the ancient Light Queen as she journeys to find the Sun.

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THE BOOK OF STARS:

MAGIC LANTERN THEATRE SHOW

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Hear "The Book of Stars" told live with  interspersed songs from Collection of the Heir and original magic lantern projections!

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(A magic lantern is an old-style analogue projector typically used with hand-painted art on glass slides)

APPRENTICE TO
TRANSFORMATION
(2022)

Original & traditional fiddle tunes for witnessing Death as a moment in transformation.

BURNING HOUSE / AS PRAYER / WING KING / HORNLÅT VALS EFTER KERSTIN IVARES /

ALL IS FLAME / VÄSTERBOTTEN POLSKA EFTER ALFRED NILSSON / DOOR / TUSSGUBBEN (SPRINGLEIK) / APPRENTICE TO TRANSFORMATION

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"AS PRAYER" - MUSIC VIDEO

THE HARDINGFELE & THE MYSTICAL PROCESS OF TUNE TRANSMISSION
crankie

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india ink on butcher paper.

story, drawings, and crankie performance by Georgia Beatty.

2021.

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"In the southern region of Norway called Telemark, a young hardingfele player is born the fateful day her mother, a beautiful and wise player herself, hands her daughter one of these magical instruments and begins the young girl on her journey into understanding the mysterious and captivating 300-year-old tradition..."

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