- Event dates: PAST EVENT
- Featured Artists:
Kim Moberg
Location:
Cape Symphony Falmouth Campus
60 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA 02540
Cape Symphony Presents Kim Moberg, an award-winning singer/songwriter and self-taught, finger pick style guitarist. Kim's passionate and heartfelt vocals mesmerize listeners while her compositions tug at feelings of melancholy, heartbreak, healing and social consciousness.
Kim was born in Juneau, Alaska, the daughter of a mother of Alaskan Native Tlingit descent and a US Coast Guard veteran father from Kansas. She inherited an innate sense of music, a constant in Kim's childhood which helped her to cope with the frequent moves associated with growing up in a military family.
A classical pianist and guitarist, Kim’s mother guided her lifelong love for a wide range of musical genres from traditional and contemporary jazz to Broadway tunes and Folk music. Her father exposed her to legendary country music artists like Johnny Cash and Hank Williams. As a Folk/Americana artist, Kim’s sound reflects this mélange.
Kim began playing acoustic guitar on a borrowed nylon six-string at age 14. Later, she taught herself to strum and finger pick to her favorite songs, but debilitating stage fright kept her from pursuing her dream of becoming a professional performer. In 2014, after a financial industry career spanning nearly two decades, Kim set out to overcome her stage fright and wrote her first song.
She teamed with Grammy-nominated producer Jon Evans (Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan) to record "Above Ground” (2017) whose title celebrates the achievement of her goal to bring her music out of the basement.. The collection includes seven original songs, including the anthem "Resist," and one cover ("I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"). Kim's sophomore release “Up Around The Bend” (2020) addresses a variety of topics such as her great-grandmother's marriages ("Josephine"), the soldiers that guard The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ("21 Steps: Ballad of the Unknowns") and the award-winning "Angels Fly" about the loss of her sister to breast cancer. Both albums have aired worldwide and charted on the Folk International Folk DJ and the North American College & Community Radio charts to critical acclaim.
Kim and Jon collaborated again for her third album, “The Seven Fires Prophecy: Suite for Humanity” (2023), an eight-song original suite that ties the ancient Anishinaabe prophecy to our current social environment. The project blossomed from Kim’s desire to share what she learned about Indigenous teachings and the important and relevant life lessons they offer.
Kim's rich vocals, described as “a blend of honey and whiskey,” are a perfect match for her stirring, heartfelt musical themes.
Watch Kim Moberg perform:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLpBngDLrc&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHbGTo-F1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVeLWOgyteM
Cape Symphony Presents is a concert promoting arm of the Cape Symphony that brings unique, eclectic entertainment to venues across the Cape and Islands, introducing audiences to new musicians, ensembles, and a diverse array of musical genres.
