ALAN MOBERG’s EPK (electronic press kit)
He is country. He is folk. He is cowboy. He is gospel. He is Western Roots. He is
known as “The Saltwater Cowboy” for his blended identity, a singer of the coast and
a singer of BC’s interior ranch lands. A singer of its diverse people, with an
admiration for the First Nations . His 16th CD, REMEMBER ME has been released
ALAN MOBERG will be inducted into the British Columbia Country Music Hall of
Fame this October, 2008. He has won the BMI (SOCAN) award for “an outstanding
contribution of Canadian music”, as well as several other BC Country Music
Association awards. No wonder the music director of Radio Toronto, CIUT,
says “Alan is no doubt one of Canada’s best.”
Alan Moberg is BC’s most authentic troubadour. A “West Coast Stan Rogers”. He
is a simple but powerful performer, just a man and his guitar, but a big presence.
Moberg's songs speak to the human condition, evoking notions of ongoing
endurance, perseverance, travails and triumphs with simplicity and directness. He is
honest and observant, his lyrics have courage and conviction. He celebrates the lives
of ordinary men and women, giving them identity and dignity. He puts smiles on
our faces and in our hearts. He gets toes tapping. Soon we're all celebrating. Let his
music uplift and enrich you.
He has an extensive body of original and moving songs of his beloved British
Columbia, with traditional western themes like bravery, innocence survival, of his
admiration for and the cross cultural friendships we share with First Nations
people. He himself has been given an honoured Chief's name, Hemidi by the
Kwakiutl Nation. And is an adopted member of the Gitskan Nation. Howard
White of Harbour Publishing says that “Moberg does for BC’s interior ranchland
and coastal rainforest what Ian Tyson does for Alberta cow country…a moving
portrayal of the west beyond the west by a virtuoso singer-songwriter.”
His choral songs have been sung from Czechoslovakia to Jamaica to Nashville,
Tennessee, and of course in his own beautiful British Columbia. He is a contender
for the Canadian Country Music Association’s Hall of Fame to be held in
Vancouver for the first time in 12 years in the fall of 2009.
Discography
REMEMBER ME* clips on http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alanmoberg soon on iTunes.
FARTHER ALONG
HOME AND DRY
NORTHERN LOVE
SONG FOR THE LIFE
SALTWATER COWBOY
(clips from all CD’s at http://www.alanmoberg.com)
Buy CD’s directly from Alan Moberg on this official site.
Awards
To be inducted into the BC Country Music Hall of Fame 2008
Winner of three BC Country Music Association awards.
Winner of the BMI Canada (SOCAN) Certificate of Merit Award.
"An outstanding contribution to Canadian Music".
TV/ /Tourism/Film
He has had national, local and regional television exposure.
His folk CD DOGWOOD COUNTRY was chosen by the province of BC for
promotion, and was used also in a German film about the province.
The song This Could Be the Day chosen as a theme for a prison ministry video
See Alan Moberg play with Ed Peekeekoot, Kamloops, 2008, on YouTube.com
Radio
His music is receiving airplay in Canada, the US, Ireland and Australia (see site for
listings). His last CD FARTHER ALONG charted in the top ten on Canadian
University radio in Kamloops, Lethbridge, and Nanaimo on Roots playlists in 2007.
Reviews
"Allan is no doubt one of Canada's best. It also goes without saying that Alan has an
open invitation to appear on our airwaves should he tour in Toronto. "
Ron Burd, Musical Director, CIUT Radio Toronto
"From his first performance, actually from the first note he sang, he had the
audience in the palm of his hand” Connie Mack, past promotions director, the
Rainbow Corral, Wetaskiwin, AB
Contact: Annie Palovcik TK Media 250 537 9571 anniep@saltspring.com
2008 begins with the Salt Spring Island Folk Club, headline act, Jan 28; 100 Mile
House Cowboy Concert Feb 9; 70 Mile House Gospel Concert, and; Dusty Rose Pub
Feb 10; Fisher Poet Festival, Astoria, Oregon, February 22-23; Kamloops Cowboy
Festival, Mar 6-9; El Zocalo Cafe Eclectic Fridays, Mar 28, SSI; Heritage Place,
SSI, April 20; Miracle Rally, Victoria, April 26-27; BC Rivermania kick-off,
opening Gulf of Georgia Cannery, BC’s 150 Years, Steveston Market opening.
Steveston, May 4; Maple Leaf Singers perform Alan’s “Williams Lake Stampede” at
Massey Theatre, New Westminster ; May 31 Jun 1; Tree House Café (with Ed
Peekeekoot) Jun 20; Fulford Hall, SSI, June 23; Black Dog Café, Lantzville, June
28; Langley Canada Days, June 30-July 1; July 2,Tree House Café Concerts Under
the Stars, SSI, also July 20 with Ed Peekeekoot and August 6; Abbotsford Agrifair,
Aug 2, 3, 4; Rainbow Corral, Wetaskiwin, AB, Aug 8; Concert in the Country,
Millet, AB, Aug 9-10; BCCMA Hall of Fame Aug 17; Kelowna Festivals, Kerry
Park Aug 22; Ashcroft Opera House, Aug 23; Music & Munch, SSI, Aug 27; Fall
Fair, SSI, Sep 20-21; Cowichan Theatre, Duncan, October; (pending) Manito ahbee
Festival, Winnipeg, November; 108 Mile Hills Health Ranch, Nov 14; Cowboy
Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin, Williams Lake Nov 15; Dusty Rose Pub, 70 Mile
House, Nov 16
2009 David Thompson Resort Cowboy Festival,(pending); Stony Plain Cowboy
Gathering AB; Williams Lake Stampede, BC; Grandview Stage Resort Music
Festival, AB; Sandy Creek Gospel Jamboree, SK(pending); Canadian Country
Music Week, Vancouver
Ongoing listings on site see Schedule at www.alanmoberg.com