Artemisia (EP Release) w/ Mia Pixley

**RESCHEDULED FROM 1/29/22**

Live in the Crystal Cavern:

Artemisia

w/ support from Mia Pixley

Saturday Jan 29 2022 @ 7pm

$16

18+

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Artemisia

There is a haunting beauty to the music of Artemisia. Inspired by Appalachian folk harmonies, 80’s synth soundtracks, and ghosts, the trio features vocal harmonies that weave tightly together, shimmering above the polyrhythmic harp and soaring violin. A dreamy spaciousness fills their arrangements and wistful melodies linger long after the final note has faded.

The Oakland-based trio began as a duo when Selene Ross (vocals, ukulele, guitar, autoharp, dulcimer) and Alisa Rose (vocals, harp, guitar) met in the misty Berkeley Hills in 2018. They recorded a debut collection of songs in the Joshua Tree desert in early 2021, made possible by the gentle heart of Anthony Ferraro (Toro y Moi, Astronauts, etc.), and were joined in the summer of 2021 by Ariel Wang on violin.

This January they celebrate the release of the second single from the debut collection: “Cactus Song”.

Mia Pixley

Mia Pixley, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and artist who uses her cello, voice, and music performance to study and represent aspects of self and other, community, and the natural world. Similar to the collaborative lens from which she approaches her psychotherapy practice, Mia’s artistic collaborations lead with curiosity, honesty, humility, and humor. Protectively whimsical and simultaneously melancholic, Mia’s music gravitates toward the beauty hidden in sorrow, pain, and loss and this beauty’s potential to inspire curiosity, wonder, rebirth, and reconnection to ourselves, each other, and the natural world. Mia released her first full length album titled “Margaret in the Wild” this July (2021).