Practically Magick: Music, Magic & Austin Tony

About this episode

Courtney Pearl sits down with Austin Tony, co-owner of Cat and Cauldron in Taylorsville, Utah, to talk about the intersection of music and magic. Austin shares how his family's folk practices, his move from Wicca into traditional witchcraft, and his Etruscan and English ancestry shaped his path, and how a background in opera led him to a new project: a witch choir built around chanting and singing in ritual. The conversation turns to voice as a sacred tool. Courtney describes a pilgrimage to an English burrow, where singing with other women inside the chamber helped her hear her own voice belong among others. Austin and Courtney discuss vocal trauma, the body-mind-spirit connection in singing, and why sound, breath, and vibration can activate the etheric body during spellwork and home cleansing. They also explore how words, will, and purpose work together in a spell, and how music can carry that intention. Austin lays out the goals for his choir: an inclusive space where people can sing without rigid binaries or performance pressure, with auditions opening on a Saturday evening and rehearsals planned for Tuesday evenings. Austin's and Courtney's stories of learning to trust the