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Alastair Moock House Concert
Come join singer/songwriter, Alastair Moock, for an intimate house concert at the home of Gail Erdos. Light refreshments will be provided. BYOB.
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Alastair started performing in 1995, moving from his home outside New York City to the folk haven of Boston. After working his way up through the local coffeehouse and club circuit, he began touring the U.S. and Europe, eventually graduating to renowned events like the Newport Folk Festival and Norways Bergen Music Fest and opening for national acts like Arlo Guthrie, Taj Mahal, and Ramblin Jack Elliot. In 2007 Moock was nominated for a Boston Music Award for Outstanding Singer-Songwriter of the Year. The Boston Globe called him one of the towns best and most adventurous songwriters and The Washington Post declared every song a gem.
Still, critical success did not translate into commercial success. When his twin daughters were born in 2006, Moock concluded it was time to move on. As his swan song, he decided to make one more album: a tribute both to his own newborn daughters and to a generation of musical heroes Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt who wrote and played, proudly and undiscriminatingly, for both adults and kids.
The album, A Cow Says Moock, became Moocks most successful project to date. It led to three more family albums which together garnered most of the top awards in American childrens music, including a 2013 GRAMMY Nomination for the album he made with his daughter, Clio, after she was diagnosed with leukemia (shes now healthy and doing great).
Moock never stopped playing concerts for adults, but he did have a long dry spell where new grownup material just didnt seem to come to him. The spell finally broke in 2016 when he realized he needed to get past the songs of my 20s and 30s and start writing from the perspective of who I am now: a father, a husband, a guy whos been through some stuff.
He brought his new material to his old friend Mark Erelli (Lori McKenna, Josh Ritter trio) who signed on as producer and brought in some of the top talent in the area, including Marco Giovino on drums (Robert Plant, Buddy Miller) and Marty Ballou on bass (Peter Wolf, John Hammond Jr.). The end result is ten shimmering new originals, plus a cover of an Erelli tune, that evoke a wide breadth of American musical textures: early Nashville, country blues, Western swing, a tinge of gospel. But most of all, the album is infused with the kind of intimate storytellers approach at which Moock excels.
The songs on Alastair Moock touch on death and love, politics, marriage and family, big universal questions and minute everyday observations. Its a hard album to pin down, but then Moock has always been a hard songwriter to pin down. I dont care who Im singing to, he says, I just want to tell stories.
Rich Warren, of the nationally syndicated "Midnight Special" radio show, listed the album among his 12 Favorites of the Years, saying, Moock reemerges as the best new, old singer-songwriter on the scene.
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LocationHome of Gail Erdos (View)
46 Bartlett Avenue
Belmont, MA 02478
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
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