Kim Moberg with Heather Swanson ~ 2022 August 2 ~ Mashpee Community Park, Mashpee, MA
Kim Moberg, guitar and vocals; Heather Swanson, fiddle
Set List
A Mother Never Rests {Lori McKenna} - Blackbird {The Beatles} - Danny's Song {Anne Murray} - Goodbye To Yesterday - Before I Go {John Hiatt} - Josephine - The Mark {Tracy Grammer} - Old Man {Neil Young} - Straight From the Heart - Superstar {Leon Russell} - Carolina In My Mind {James Taylor} - Angels Fly - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right {Bob Dylan} - What's Going On {Marvin Gaye} - Hometown {Sarah Jarosz} - Up Around the Bend - House of Mercy
Since I like to keep a set list, I appreciate it when a performer mentions the title and writer of the songs they play, as Kim did. The songs where no songwriter is mentioned are her originals.
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Straight From the Heart
Review
I have seen Kim Moberg's name in concert listings many times, since she lives locally (on Cape Cod) and has been playing quite a few live shows. I saw her perform for the first time about a week ago when she opened for Grace Morrison at the Soule Homestead in Middleborough, and now I was treated to another chance to hear her perform, this time the sound enhanced by Heather Swanson, who often accompanies Kim on fiddle. Kim interspersed the songs with a number of interesting personal stories, telling (for instance) how she chose to give up a career in banking to become a folk musician. Cheers to Kim -- good choice!
Kim showed that she knows how to read an audience. When she opened for Grace last week, she knew that she was playing to a real folk audience who were eager to hear what these two local singer/songwriters had to say. At tonight's show in Mashpee, she realized the crowd was mainly out to enjoy a free gazebo concert, and that playing a lot of familiar covers, with a few of her own songs mixed in, was the way to go. I am enjoying getting to know Kim's music, since she is a very good songwriter in the folk tradition, and plays guitar very well, in a finger picking style that is a notch above what you sometimes hear from an under-the-radar local performer.
The Mashpee Community Park on Great Neck Road North across from Town Hall is a pleasant place to hear a show, with plenty of parking, an expansive lawn for putting down your chair, and far enough from the road so that the traffic noise is audible only if it is a motorcycle roaring by. The weather was very nice, not as hot as some of the days we've been having this summer. I'm glad to have discovered this summer concert series and hope to drop by again before the end of the season.