Tea à Tempo is once again honoured to have Alan Moberg, Salt Spring Island’s Saltwater Cowboy – Songwriter, Singer, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Son, Brother, Landscaper, Friend – on the All Saints by-the-Sea stage on October 02. Alan will sing songs and tell stories from the eight decades of his coastal experience.
(Alan & Lynda Moberg in dinghy)
Alan Moberg was born in 1941 in Pender Harbour, BC. His Dad was a logger who became a fisherman that same year. At 83, Moberg is three years into his ninth decade on these shores. His Mother was a city girl who
became an up-coast wife and Mom. She learned to slice frozen bait in Fitzhugh Sound, shoot a marauding mink who was killing their chickens and raise two kids, largely on her own, as her husband was away fishing for up to five months of the year.
The first word Alan spoke was “boat.” As a toddler, he could tell whose boat it was before it came around the point by the sound of its engine. He migrated with his Mother to Rivers Inlet for the fishing season in 1945 and for three more years, with his Mom and younger sister Lynda, from 1950 through 1952.
Moberg deep sea trolled with his Dad, in the summers, from the age of 11 and later seined both salmon and herring on bigger boats. At age 22, he returned to fishing with his father to make up for the sea legs and abilities he had lacked as a youngster. His Dad would say that this more mature Alan was the best man he ever had on the boat.
John Lugsdin of the Salt Spring Sailing Club said that Moberg is one of the few people who remembers the BC Coast as it once was and invited him to play a concert for the Club’s members. Alan told stories and sang songs of his beloved West Coast. It was a smashing success, the folks loved it.
Moberg would like to offer a similar experience to you. Please join us at Tea à Tempo as Alan shares his songs from his lifetime on the BC Coast.
Patrons should note that the cool temperature and warm ambiance of All Saints by-the-Sea Anglican Church is the perfect place to be on hot autumn days.
Concert begins at 2:10pm. Donations provide the honoraria for performers and contribute to the running of the Tea à Tempo series.
Tea and Treats, for $5.00 (price change), will be served immediately following the concert in the hall overlooking Ganges Harbour.
So bring a friend or visitor to the Island, be thoroughly entertained by Salt Spring’s Saltwater Cowboy, and then have a delicious treat afterwards.
Food, friends, and music! What more could you ask for? Hope to see you there.
The Music Makers