Hugh Moffatt
Through more than twenty-five years as a singer and songwriter, there isn't much that Hugh Moffatt hasn't done.
The list of artists who have recorded his songs is international and multi-dimensional. It ranges from Patti Page to Jerry Lee Lewis to The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton and Alabama and includes pop, country, traditional and gospel artists from around the world. These records include the chart-topping country singles “Just in Case†by Ronnie Milsap, “Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You†by Dolly Parton, and “How Could I Love Her So Much†by Johnny Rodriguez, and the Southern Gospel hit “Roll Away the Stone†by Wendy Bagwell and the Sunlighters.
As a performing artist himself, Moffatt has released nine albums and toured extensively around the world. His albums are LOVING YOU, TROUBADOUR and DANCE ME OUTSIDE (duets with Katy Moffatt) for Rounder Records, THE LIFE OF A MINOR POET for Watermelon Records, LIVE AND ALONE for Brambus Records in Switzerland, THE WOGNUM SESSIONS (The Hugh Moffatt Trio) for Strictly Country Records in the Netherlands, GHOSTS OF THE MUSIC for Brambus, and the new SONGS FROM THE BACK OF THE CHURCH on Sohl Recordings. Sony Australia also released a 17-song compilation from his first two albums under the title, THE WAY LOVE IS.
He is, with composer Michael Ching, the librettist for two one-act operas and one full-length opera. The one-acts are KING OF THE CLOUDS, commissioned and premiered by Dayton Opera in 1993, and OUT OF THE RAIN, commissioned jointly by Opera Delaware, the Kansas City Lyric Opera and Opera Memphis and premiered by Opera Delaware in 1998. These operas have each had multiple productions and continue to attract new audiences.
Moffatt and Ching’s first full-length opera, Corps Of Discovery, A Musical Journey, commissioned by the University of Missouri Show-Me Opera and based on the Lewis & Clark expedition, premiered in May of 2003 in Columbia, Missouri. Opera Memphis produced the professional premier in Memphis in April of 2004, and the University of Idaho presented the Northwest premier in the fall of 2005.
Whatever the medium, Hugh Moffatt continues to put music and words together to create works of beauty and sincere emotional impact.
http://www.hughmoffatt.com
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.hughmoffatt.com
Track List:
1. When You Held Me in Your Arms
2. Mama Rita
3. Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You
4. Words at Twenty Paces
5. Slow Moving Freight Train
6. No Stranger to the Blues
7. Loving You
8. Tomorrow is a Long Time
9. Carolina Star
10. Jack and Lucy
11. Roll With the Weather
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
Through more than twenty-five years as a singer and songwriter, there isn't much that Hugh Moffatt hasn't done.
The list of artists who have recorded his songs is international and multi-dimensional. It ranges from Patti Page to Jerry Lee Lewis to The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton and Alabama and includes pop, country, traditional and gospel artists from around the world. These records include the chart-topping country singles “Just in Case†by Ronnie Milsap, “Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You†by Dolly Parton, and “How Could I Love Her So Much†by Johnny Rodriguez, and the Southern Gospel hit “Roll Away the Stone†by Wendy Bagwell and the Sunlighters.
As a performing artist himself, Moffatt has released nine albums and toured extensively around the world. His albums are LOVING YOU, TROUBADOUR and DANCE ME OUTSIDE (duets with Katy Moffatt) for Rounder Records, THE LIFE OF A MINOR POET for Watermelon Records, LIVE AND ALONE for Brambus Records in Switzerland, THE WOGNUM SESSIONS (The Hugh Moffatt Trio) for Strictly Country Records in the Netherlands, GHOSTS OF THE MUSIC for Brambus, and the new SONGS FROM THE BACK OF THE CHURCH on Sohl Recordings. Sony Australia also released a 17-song compilation from his first two albums under the title, THE WAY LOVE IS.
He is, with composer Michael Ching, the librettist for two one-act operas and one full-length opera. The one-acts are KING OF THE CLOUDS, commissioned and premiered by Dayton Opera in 1993, and OUT OF THE RAIN, commissioned jointly by Opera Delaware, the Kansas City Lyric Opera and Opera Memphis and premiered by Opera Delaware in 1998. These operas have each had multiple productions and continue to attract new audiences.
Moffatt and Ching’s first full-length opera, Corps Of Discovery, A Musical Journey, commissioned by the University of Missouri Show-Me Opera and based on the Lewis & Clark expedition, premiered in May of 2003 in Columbia, Missouri. Opera Memphis produced the professional premier in Memphis in April of 2004, and the University of Idaho presented the Northwest premier in the fall of 2005.
Whatever the medium, Hugh Moffatt continues to put music and words together to create works of beauty and sincere emotional impact.
http://www.hughmoffatt.com
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.hughmoffatt.com
Track List:
1. When You Held Me in Your Arms
2. Mama Rita
3. Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You
4. Words at Twenty Paces
5. Slow Moving Freight Train
6. No Stranger to the Blues
7. Loving You
8. Tomorrow is a Long Time
9. Carolina Star
10. Jack and Lucy
11. Roll With the Weather
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
- COUNTRY: Country Folk
- FOLK: Modern Folk
- SOLO MALE ARTIST