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Family Music Press

2013 GRAMMY Award Nomination, Best Children’s Album

 

“Grounded in the American folk traditions of Guthrie and Seeger, Moock’s songs celebrate diversity in all its sizes,
shapes, colors and persuasions… This is everything children’s music can and should be.”

2020 Parents’ Choice
Gold Medal

2015 Parents’ Choice
Gold Medal

2013 Parents’ Choice
Gold Medal

2011 Parents’ Choice
Silver Medal

 

“Moock has a gift for writing songs with humanity, humor and fine musicianship. [His] songs bust stereotypes,
promote acceptance and celebrate our differences.”

2015 National Parenting
Publications Awards
Gold Medal

2013 National Parenting
Publications Awards
Gold Medal

2011 National Parenting
Publications Awards
Gold Medal

2010 National Parenting
Publications Awards
Gold Medal

2015 ASCAP Foundation Joe Raposo Children’s Music Award
Awarded annually to one artist in honor of ‘Sesame Street’ songwriting legend, Joe Raposo

2015 International Songwriting Competition
First Prize for Children’s Music

 


2015 Fids & Kamily Industry Poll
#2 Album of the Year


2013 People Magazine
Best Kids’ Album Pick


2013 Fids & Kamily Industry Poll
#3 Album of the Year

“A Tom Waits for kids”

 

“In the footsteps of Seeger and Guthrie, Alastair Moock makes real kids music that parents can actually enjoy.”

“Singer Alastair Moock’s live show is half Appalachian hootenanny, half honky-tonk jam session. It’s also totally kid-friendly…
[with] an indie sensibility hip parents dig.”

 

“A musical descendant of Woody Guthrie, Moock refreshes the classic brand of acoustic folk with a zany sense of humor.”

 

“‘Singing Our Way Through’ has a message of clear-eyed hope and comfort that isn’t just for kids… The songs provide a
combination of empathy and humor, offering strength to any families facing an uncertain future.”

 

“What’s most impressive about ‘Singing Our Way Through’ is its ability to portray cancer for what it is: a complex human
process full of fear and pain, but also moments of great intimacy and even joy. It’s an unsentimental album that happens
to be deeply moving… A masterpiece.”

Awards

  • 2020 Parents’ Choice Gold Medal
  • 2020 RAWA Songs for Social Change Contest Winner
  • 2020 International Songwriting Competition, Second Prize for Children’s Music
  • 2015 ASCAP Joe Raposo Children’s Music Award
  • 2015 Parents’ Choice Gold Medal
  • 2015 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal
  • 2015 International Songwriting Competition, First Prize for Children’s Music
  • 2015 Fids & Kamily Industry Critics’ Poll #2 Album of the Year
  • 2013 GRAMMY Nomination, Best Children’s Album
  • 2013 People Magazine Best Kids’ Album Pick
  • 2013 Parents’ Choice Gold Medal
  • 2013 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal
  • 2013 Fids & Kamily Industry Critics’ Poll #3 Album of the Year
  • 2011 Parents’ Choice Silver Medal
  • 2011 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal
  • 2010 Parents’ Choice Recommended Award
  • 2010 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal

 

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Grownup Music Press

 

“Alastair Moock displays the gifts the best folk songwriters have: romantic without seeming mawkish,
clever without seeming precious, brooding without seeming self-pitying… This is one of Boston’s best and most adventurous songwriters.”

 

“A young folkie who sounds just as rough, rootsy, and masculine as the bad boys of the 60s. Moock has a gnarled but pleasing voice and the air of a man who’s hitched from coast to coast… He has become simply one of the top songwriters in the region.”

 

“Moock’s songs are simple, built on country-blues structures and free of the convoluted metaphors and self-conscious wordplay that clutter so much modern folk music … Every one is a gem.”

 

“I’ve been listening to one song a day ‘cuz it’s like ice cream or a good novel. Like when I read The Godfather, I wouldn’t read more than two pages ‘cuz I didn’t want to finish it. That CD is a killer — just a total complete motherfucker.”

 

“With each of his five albums, this Boston-based singer-songwriter has honed his signature ability to write songs that sound joyfully homespun and irreverent while also being painstakingly poetic and intricate. He’s settled nicely into the role of a folkie raconteur, exploring the American vernacular from swing to blues to Appalachian mountain music and fitting each genre to the timeless themes of his lyrics. Those styles also fit perfectly with Alastair’s voice, which is pitched somewhere between a rasp and growl: this is a voice made for vintage-sounding Americana.”

 

“Moock is an anachronism in the best sense. He’s a young man with the wizened sound of someone much older, often sounding a lot like Steve Forbert in both voice and arrangements, and he mixes his rootsy, confident originals with covers of old songs… Moock knows both his history and how to tell a good story.”

 

“Moock’s rough voice and easy songs are comforting. Listening to or singing along with him is like falling asleep in the back of your parents’ car, going home.”

 

Boston Music Awards

2007 Boston Music Award Nominee, Outstanding Singer-Songwriter of the Year

Awards

  • 2007 Boston Music Award Nominee, Outstanding Singer-Songwriter of the Year
  • 2006 Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Competition Finalist
  • 2004 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist Contest Winner
  • 2004 Great Waters Folk Festival Songwriting Contest Winner
  • 2004 Sisters Folk Festival Songwriting Contest Winner
  • 2004 Telluride Troubadour Competition Honorable Mention
  • 2004 South Florida Folk Festival Songwriting Contest Finalist


 

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Downloadable Family Photos

Moock

Photo by Mara Brod

Moock

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Moock

Photo by Elena Clamen


Moock

Photo by Tanit Sakakini

Alastair Moock Cover

Photo by Justin Miel

Downloadable Grownup Photos

Moock

Photo by Barry Schneier

Moock

Photo by Barry Schneier

Moock

Photo by Barry Schneier


Moock

Photo by Joe Wallace

Moock

Photo by Michael D. Spencer

Moock

Photo by Barry Schneier

Downloadable Biography

Alastair Moock started performing in 1995, moving from his home outside New York City to the folk haven of Boston, Massachusetts. 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 Norway’s Bergen Music Fest and opening for national acts like Arlo Guthrie, Taj Mahal, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, and Greg Brown. Today, he is an award-winning singer-songwriter; a Grammy-nominated family musician; a social justice and songwriting educator for all ages; and co-founder of The Opening Doors Project, an anti-racist music organization. The Boston Globe calls him “one of the town’s best and most adventurous songwriters” and The Washington Post declares “every song a gem.”

 

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