Alastair Moock: Folk Troubadour Graces South Shore Music Club

On Saturday, October 19 at 7pm, Boston singer-songwriter Alastair Moock returns to the South Shore Folk Music Club. He'll be joined by Maxfield Anderson on mandolin, banjo, and guitar. Tickets are $22. The venue is located at First Parish Duxbury, 842 Tremont St., Duxbury, MA. For more information and reservations, please visit https://southshorefolkmusicclub.org.

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, Bill Morrissey, and Greg Brown. In 2007 he was nominated for a Boston Music Award for Outstanding Singer-Songwriter of the Year. The Boston Globe called him “one of the town’s best and most adventurous songwriters” and The Washington Post declared “every song a gem.”

When Moock’s twins were born in 2006, he turned his focus for several years to family music. His five albums for kids garnered many of the top awards in the business, including a 2013 Grammy Nomination for Best Children’s Album, three Parents’ Choice Gold Medals, and the ASCAP Joe Raposo Children’s Music Award.

He returned to "adult" singer-songwriter-ing with a 2017 eponymous release produced by Mark Erelli. The album reached the top ten of the national Folk DJ chart and Rich Warren, of the nationally syndicated Midnight Special radio program, hailed Moock as "the best new, old singer-songwriter on the scene.”

In 2021, Moock co-founded The Opening Doors Project, an organization dedicated to amplifying voices of color and advancing interracial conversations about race through the arts. Alastair is also a charter member of The Folk Collective equity group at historic Club Passim in Harvard Square, a Juried Artist with Music to Life, a co-founder of The Melrose Racial Justice Community Coalition in his hometown outside of Boston, and a recipient of the 2024 Phil Ochs Award. He is a regular contributor to Boston NPR’s online magazine, Cognoscenti, where he writes about music, social justice, and his deepest love of all: basketball.