Violinist Lindsey Stirling looked to the moon for inspiration on new album and comic book series

Lindsey Stirling could hardly person experienced a much abrupt and melodramatic halt to her euphony activities than what happened erstwhile the pandemic deed successful aboriginal 2020.

The violin prima was connected a level with her dancers, set and unit heading to South America to commencement a limb of her “Artemis” tour, erstwhile connection came that the circuit was being canceled and it was clip to crook astir and alert backmost to Los Angeles. Not surprisingly, it took a infinitesimal to grasp what had conscionable happened.

“At archetypal I decidedly thought my cause and my manger were conscionable being over-protective,” Stirling recalled successful a caller telephone interview. “I was like, I tin bash this. We’re healthy, we’re good,…So I called (my manager) and I said ‘Please fto america bash this. My crew, they’re each consenting to stay.’ And they fundamentally told maine this is bigger than absorption and agents. This isn’t a choice. You’re coming home. It was conscionable specified a shock.”

Stirling spent the aboriginal portion of the pandemic successful Missouri with household earlier yet returning to her location successful Los Angeles, wherever she rode retired the remainder of the lockdown. Now with COVID-19 restrictions being eased, she has astatine agelong past resumed her “Artemis” circuit (named aft her astir caller album, which was released successful autumn 2019). Her show, which comes to L.A. connected Aug. 30 and San Diego Aug. 31, is getting a spot of a makeover from wherever it was erstwhile the plug was pulled connected touring.

“We decided to wholly re-do each of the costumes, 1 due to the fact that they conscionable got truthful worn retired connected the past tour,” Stirling said. “That was benignant of the happening I’ve been originative with lately is, adjacent similar going to the cloth territory and picking retired the cloth myself and designing them. I’m ace hands-on with each of that worldly and it’s truly amusive for me.

“And present I’ve had much clip to spot what fans emotion astir the album,” she said. “I’ve been capable to spot what songs and what things they’ve (been responding to) the most. So I americium switching up the acceptable a small spot based connected what I’ve seen implicit the (recent months).”

The caller amusement figures to diagnostic the 2 main components that person made Stirling a unsocial fixture connected the modern euphony country – a divers scope of songs from each 5 oregon her albums that acceptable her violin playing to a dynamic backdrop heavy influenced by physics euphony and plentifulness of choreography for Stirling and her 4 dancers.

Stirling began processing her dependable and performing attack astir 15 years ago, erstwhile she launched her You Tube channel. She truly began to drawback connected online aft competing connected “America’s Got Talent” successful 2010, generating capable enactment that she was signed by Lady Gaga’s manager, Troy Carter.

This led to the merchandise of Stirling’s self-titled debut medium successful 2012. Three much albums followed implicit the adjacent 5 years arsenic she refined her classical-meets-EDM dependable and did aggregate tours.

“Artemis” represents arguably Stirling’s astir ambitious philharmonic task yet. In summation to including 13 songs, the task besides features a six-part comic publication bid that tells the communicative connected which the medium is based and videos for respective of the songs, making for a existent multi-media project.

Stirling came into the “Artemis” task aft an album, “Brave Enough,” connected which she grappled with nonaccomplishment and grief pursuing the deaths of her begetter and champion friend. She was successful a overmuch amended spot emotionally and wanted the adjacent medium to bespeak some past phases of her beingness and the overmuch happier idiosyncratic she had become.

“When I was reasoning astir concepts and medium artwork and whatnot I conscionable kept drafting the moon. That kept coming up successful the artwork,” Stirling said. “And I emotion that the satellite goes done phases. And the operation came to my caput that conscionable due to the fact that the satellite is covered successful shadiness doesn’t mean it’s not inactive there. There was a clip successful my beingness I had felt similar I was truthful covered up by sadness, grief, depression, shadow, immoderate it was, that I felt similar I had mislaid myself. I didn’t cognize what I was doing anymore. But past I felt myself travel back. Oh, it’s not that I was gone. It’s not that I mislaid who I am. It’s that I was covered with shadow. And past I truly started reasoning who is the goddess of the moon?”

In Greek mythology, that goddess is Artemis.

“So it each started much with the conception of the moon, and past I became fascinated with ‘Oh my gosh, Artemis is the goddess of the satellite and she is this strong, fierce warrior who besides is the huntress, but besides she’s brushed and she’s nurturing. She’s the goddess of fertility,” Stirling explained. “I thought that was specified a chill metaphor for women. We tin beryllium beardown and fierce, but besides we person this peculiar nurturing side. So I conscionable fell successful emotion with what she represents successful each mode and this communicative conscionable benignant of poured retired of it successful a precise integrated way.”

If you go

Los Angeles: 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 30. Microsoft Theater, 777 Chick Hearn Court. $29.50-$265, axs.com

San Diego: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31, San Diego Civic Theatre, 233 A St., $26-$189, ticketmaster.com