MEET THE MUSICIANS

CHRIS MOSER

Chris started on his folk music journey just as he was starting college, when he sat down in a Knoxville, Tennessee movie theater to watch The Graduate.  The Simon & Garfunkel songs  transfixed him and sent him home to drag out the Sears Silvertone guitar he had acquired on a whim years earlier.  Within an year he and a pal were performing in folk coffeehouses around the University of Tennessee campus.  Chris earned bachelor's and master's degrees in theater and communications and pursued a broadcasting career, all the while continuing to hone his folksinging and guitar skills.  He moved to Atlanta in 1975 and became involved in the folk music scene here.  In the early 80s he underwent another epiphany – again in  an old Knoxville movie theater, but one that hosted a Celtic music concert headlined by Mick Moloney and fiddler Eugene O'Donnell.  The show ignited a passion for Celtic folk music, shared by friend Phil Matteson.  After performing for several years as a folk duo, they formed the Celtic band Barney's Goat, an ensemble that continued with various personnel for three decades.

Chris is President Emeritus of Atlanta Area Friends of Folk Music.  As Vice-President of the Atlanta Celtic Festival in the 1990s, he helped the festival evolve from a small local event to one of international repute by attracting world-famous Celtic music recording artists as headliners.  

CAROL MOSER

Carol Moser, an Atlanta native, learned Southern traditional music from childhood from her mother, highly acclaimed folk musician Betty Fowler.  Raised on Joan Baez, Josh White, Leadbelly and other great artists of 50s and early 60s folk, protest and traditional music, Carol developed a love and appreciation very early on for the music shared at home and around many a campfire “hootenany” as her family frequently spent vacations camping. In the 1990s, Betty and Carol formed a Mother-Daughter folk duo and were in high demand as performers. They recorded four albums as Southern Lace.  After Betty's untimely death, Carol continued performing solo and with other artists.  She also took Betty’s place as secretary of Atlanta Area Friends of Folk Music. She is Interested in a variety of musical genres and a multi-instrumentalist, Carol enjoys the different flavors of music in Redwine Jam.