Kathy Moser

Artist Information

Biography

Kathy Moser is a songwriter, performer, teacher and social artist, working to bring positive
change to the world through music. She performs and tours nationally. Kathy has appeared at well known folk venues such as Club Passim and Godfrey Daniels, as well as colleges, churches, coffeehouses, prisons, and benefits too numerous to mention!.
Known for her poetic lyrics, driving guitar style and goofy stage presence, her songs confront a variety of topics ranging from world peace to lawn mowers, dysfunctional families to shopping malls, drug addiction to the wisdom of trading in your car for a horse. Audiences leave her shows entertained and uplifted, thoughtful and motivated.
Working with young people is one of Kathy’s passions and she gives workshops, artist residencies and concerts in a variety of educational and institutional settings. Her work encourages young people to find a place to make a positive contribution to their communities.
Her new album “Some 1 Like U” features 11 original tracks and covers of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Peter Meyer and Death Cab for Cutie.

Instrumentation

One upbeat, energetic songwriter and performer, who plays guitar and keeps a mean beat with her feet in a tambourine!

Discography

Some 1 Like U 2009
Live @ Godfrey Daniels 2002
Get Used To It 2001
Good Things 1997
Ride Horses 1993

Where I'm Going, Where I've Been Sampler 2004

Official Website

http://www.kathymoser.com

Links

• Facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter
• "Some 1 Like U" live on Youtube
• "Marvin" live on You Tube
• Reverbnation

Audio

• Windows on the World
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• the person that i used to be MP3
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• "If I Could Love" live
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• The Future's In the Mirror
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• "Some 1 Like U"
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• City of Dreams
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• "Straw, Clay, Wood and Stone"
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• "Moses"
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• "I Will Follow You into the Dark"
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• "Marvin"
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Lyrics

• The Future's In the Mirror
• Some 1 Like U
• Straw, Clay, Wood and Stone
• Windows on the World
• Marvin
• City of Dreams

Video

Person that I Used to Be

Get Used To It!.mp4

Photo Gallery

Press

• Community Spotlight New Jersey’s Kathy Moser Sings of Home and Hope [+ Show ]
  

  By Sandy Rogovin In her song “Someone Like You,” singer-songwriter Kathy Moser asks this question...By Sandy Rogovin
  
  In her song “Someone Like You,” singer-songwriter Kathy Moser asks this question: “What if it turned out to be true, that only one who could save this world was you?” Moser answers in the way she lives her life. And she’d like to inspire all of us to save the world, right along with her. A lifelong musician from northwestern New Jersey, Moser says that, for her, always, “Music is the engine.” From childhood, her music has taken her on a fascinating, far-reaching journey. Moser still remembers the fun-and the lyrics-of the camp songs she sang as a Girl Scout. For thirty-four years, the guitar has been her instrument of choice. But performing wasn’t always the full-time gig it is today. Making it so has required a healthy measure of curiosity, inventiveness and persistence.
  Turning Points
  After years of playing music for herself part-time, Moser started performing publicly in 1993, when she also released her first acoustic folk collection in a recording called Ride Horses. That same year, she helped found Biking Is Kind to the Environment, or BIKE, a local nonprofit corporation. Moser is still happy to have played a part in improving bicycle accessibility in Morris County and in changing the country’s master plan to be more bicycle-friendly. Eventually, though, the demands of that work had to give way to her music, and in 1995 she left to devote herself full-time to a career that made her even happier. She began teaching guitar. “I told myself I’d quit my job if I got 20 students,” she recalls. But she didn’t wait that long: “I got 16 and quit.” Moser says that, in her experience, “Every time I’d leap, the net would be there.” And so it was with her burgeoning music career, which flourished as she dedicated more and more energy to it. Visitors to her website will find a current schedule of performances crisscrossing the United States, as well as an agenda of local work with young people at school assemblies and in songwriting workshops. Her second recording, Good Things, released in 1999, showcases a variety of Moser’s live performances. Her most recent CD, Get Used to It! explores both personal and global topics in a range of musical styles. Another CD is due out this January.
  More than Music
  Kathy Moser’s broad array of passions is revealed in the long list of groups for whom she’s played benefit concerts, including World Women’s Conference on the Environment, New Jersey Sierra Club Centennial, New Jersey Peace Action, Transportation Alternatives, Glove House Youth Detention Center, and Babyland Family Violence Protection Program. Moser doesn’t hold back when she can use her talents to aid a cause she supports. She would rather dedicate her energy to save the planet than rail against what’s wrong with the world. In 2003, her tour included many antiwar events. She could feel the anger if the audiences, the energy of people against something While she thought that the message needed to be uttered, all that negative energy began to weigh on her. About the same time, Moser also had begun exploring the idea of buying a home. Her love of nature drew her toward natural building and a house that would have less of an impact on the natural world around it. For in nature she has always found “a source of solace, a place that makes sense when the modern world doesn’t.” That source is the golden thread weaving through much of her creative work-from song lyrics to essays on humankind’s balance with nature to photographs that unveil the intricate, unexpected beauty of flowers and trees. In 2003, Moser’s housing explorations took her to the Building With Spirit colloquium at Thunder Mountain Mediation Center in Bath, New York (Peaceweavers.com). She found people working from a place of joy rather than protest, ready to change the world by the transformative act of building their own dwellings and making their lives more simple and sustainable. Moser realized that the idea that a person doesn’t have the right to build his or her own shelter is a recent one in human history. She also came to see that sustainable living could “connect us to the planet and… bring people together.” This musician’s curiosity about natural building grew, taking her throughout the United States to visit structures made of straw bale, cordwood and reclaimed materials as well as earth-sheltered homes. She even helped build a straw bale house in New York State. Notes, photos and links to some of the communities she visited are on her website, KathyMoser.com. Moser returns to the Building With colloquium each year, renewing her knowledge and reconnecting with people from many backgrounds, all with a hopeful last message. At last year’s colloquium, two of Kathy Moser’s passions collided. Through her work with young people, she’d meet plenty of kids with energy and originality who needed somewhere to direct their enthusiasm. At the colloquium, she encountered teenagers who, though brought to Bath by their parents for logistical reasons, had their eyes opened to the benefits of sustainable housing and threw themselves into it. That encounter sowed the seeds of her newest innovation, Teen Natural Building Scholarships. “Natural building.” She reasons, “is a natural fit for the energy and idealism of teens.” In this, its first year, the scholarship program raised enough money to send four kids to the 2007 colloquium. Adding in some available alternate funding, enough money remains to send three more in 2008, and Kathy Moser is still fundraising. To be eligible, kids must be between the ages of 14 and 18, plan to stay for the entire five-day colloquium, and create a plan to share what they’ve learned with their own community. Mariah Kegler, a high-school senior from the Rochester, N.Y., area, accepted the scholarship and traveled to Thunder Mountain this summer. Organizations that would like to sponsor a colloquium participant may contact Moser, and if she’s available, she may be able to help raise money for the candidate by coordinating a benefit concert. The Thunder Mountain Mediation Center is a non religious spiritual center that respects diverse traditions. Applications can be made through Moser’s website. For Kathy Moser, involving teens in sustainable living offers them-and us-hope for the future. If kids realize what’s endangering our world now, they can take action to change it. As Moser concludes, “Sustainability is hope,” and “Hope is what they need.”
  

Setlist

Usually play 8-12 songs per set, set up the songs with stories, a few covers like a klezmer version of Big Yellow Taxi

Basic Requirements

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