About Sara Beth

My Bio, Written In First Person

hello!  i am sara beth geoghegan. the last name’s pronounced go-hay-gen.  i’ve been told by many music friends that i should change my name because it’s too difficult to pronounce and i disagree.  Frederick Buechner also refused to change his last name, and we all learned to say it, right?

i have (kind of) lived in nashville for the past 8 years (i have this escapism thing that causes me to leave town for stints: i’ve moved to Minnesota, New Mexico, Florida, New Orleans, and other places. but mostly i live in nashville).  my roots and my beginnings can be found in new orleans though (I’m a 4th generation New Orleanian).

i grew up going to all-girls schools and originally wanted to be a famous actress star.  one fateful morning as a 13 year old i double-pierced my ear in defiance against my mother.  she saw it because i put my hair in a ponytail and i guess the rusty safety pin i used caused my ear to swell, pulse and turn a reddish color.  as punishment, my mother restricted me from being in any plays for an entire year.  i sobbed and had many breakdowns, then, once again in defiance against my mother, i decided to pursue music.

i made it (painfully, awkwardly, laughing, fighting with my mom, and trying to figure things out) through high school and went to Belmont in nashville, tennessee to become a famous singing star. well, i’ve mostly learned who i DIDN’T want to be, and had many crisis’s of faith and identity.  i picked up a joni mitchell cd, blue, and fell in love with the art of writing songs to communicate life.  i am learning to tell stories to connect people to their own, which in turn connects us to God.

now i am a 27 year old songstress, a little birdie with a big mouth.  I usually say too much.  recently a woman who was in the audience of a concert i was performing, told me i needed to be on the comedy station.  my mother tells me i need to give my songs to the radios.

so.  how can you hear my stories?  just contact me.  i’d love to come to your church, your coffee shop, your bar, your living room, your garden, your greenhouse, your picnic, your sanctuary, wherever that might be!  email me and my people at sarabeth@sarabethsongs.com and we’ll book something!

thanks for reading my quirky words, i hope you are chuckling.  if you’d like some music, go to www.myspace.com/sarabethnet