Alastair Moock is a 2013 GRAMMY Nominee, two-time Parents’ Choice Gold Medal Winner, recipient of the ASCAP Joe Raposo Children’s Music Award, and has twice been voted by the Fids & Kamily Industry Critics’ Poll among the Top 3 Albums of the Year. Long one of Boston’s premier folk artists, Alastair turned his attention to family music after the birth of his twin daughters in 2006. The New York Times calls him “a Tom Waits for kids” and The Boston Globe declares that, “in the footsteps of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Alastair Moock makes real kids music that parents can actually enjoy.” Moock and Friends’ live shows are rowdy, rootsy, singin’ and dancin’ fun for the whole family!

Read a feature article on Alastair and his his album "Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids" in the Boston Globe Magazine. NPR reported on the album as well - listen to a review on All Things Considered from 09/24/13.

Alastair’s latest release All Kinds of You and Me is largely inspired by Marlo Thomas’ landmark 1972 album "Free To Be… You and Me." For that groundbreaking release, Thomas gathered musical friends to celebrate individuality, tolerance, and changing cultural ideas about gender roles. Moock’s new album builds on those themes, reflecting on gender, ethnicity, and identity today, as well as the evolving concept of family in America. Says Moock, “Free To Be was a huge album for me and so many other kids of the 70s. Forty years later, it felt like the right time both to pay tribute to that amazing project and to try to push beyond some of the limitations of its era.”Indeed, bright and soulful songs like “It Takes All Kinds” and “My Life Is a Lot Like Yours” tread paths that would have been unthinkable in 1972, but are entirely kid-friendly in 2015. On the penultimate poem-song track “You and Me,” Moock talks about his experiences with Thomas’s album, and then introduces the social justice work of Dr. King, Harvey Milk, Gloria Steinem, and others, as well as the pioneering activist music of his boyhood hero, Woody Guthrie. The track leads into a rousing rendition of “This Land Is Your Land” to close the 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.”
- The Parents' Choice Foundation

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

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