Alastair Moock is a two-time NAPPA Gold Award Winner and a Parents’ Choice Silver Award Winner. Long one of Boston’s premier folk artists, he turned his attention to family music after the birth of his twin girls in 2006. The Boston Globe calls him "a Tom Waits for your tots" and Time Out New York calls him "a musical descendant of Woody Guthrie [who] refreshes the classic brand of acoustic folk with a zany sense of humor." Alastair Moock and Friends’ live shows are rowdy, rootsy, singin’ and dancin’ fun for the whole family. Watch the ABC News Interview with Alastair about his album "Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids"

NPR has reported on Singing Our Way Through as well, Listen to All Things Considered from 09/24/13.

"This is a concert for children, yet it’s not, well, childish. There are no puppets or princesses, no synthesizers or cutesy costumes. Even more surprising is that parents here are clapping along to the beat, and not in some ironic way. They have their smartphones out, sure, but they’re only snapping photos of their bopping kids. Many are even singing along. The parents get it. Moock is playing for them, too." Holly Lebowitz Ross, Boston's Globe Magazine

“His songs are as sweetly satisfying as a mouthful of caramel, sung in an affable leap-froggy baritone, but they’re not confections. They examine the real struggles of childhood, nighttime fears, drowsy mornings, grown-ups who don’t get it and the quest for who we really are in this world, as crucial at six as it is at sixty. The magic is not in pretending but in sharing what’s real about our lives. Like the best folk songs, they let kids know they’re not as alone or strange as they might think because, look, here’s a song that knows just how I feel." Scott Alarik, Sing Out

“This collection of songs will have you and your children dancing and singing along, if you can stop giggling!" A Nation of Moms

“Destined to be a HUGE hit!...put it on your must-have list...Amazing lyrics,great vocals, and wonderful instrumentation! A sure hit with any young kid, and one that adults will like listening to over, and over, and over..." Mom's Life Made Easy

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.

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