Rod Abernethy, Kim Moberg, Susan Cattaneo in The Round

Saturday, March 23, at 7:30pm. Join Rod Abernethy, Kim Moberg, and Susan Cattaneo for a night of incredible music. Rod Abernethy is an authentic southern folk troubadour, master acoustic guitarist, and award-winning songwriter and composer for film, TV, and video games. Rod’s awards include the Overall Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 International Acoustic Music Awards and the 2019 Grand Prize winner of the American Songwriter's Bob Dylan Song Contest. His album Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore received rave reviews from No Depression, American Highways, and The Wall Street Journal and was in the Top 20 CDs of 2021 at No. 11 on the Folk International Folk Charts. Kim Moberg, award-winning singer/songwriter, was born in Juneau, Alaska, the daughter of an Alaskan Native Tlingit mother and a military veteran father from Kansas. Music was a constant in Kim's childhood. A classical pianist, Kim’s mother guided her love for a wide range of musical genres from folk to jazz, while her father is a Country music fan. Kim’s sound reflects this mélange of her musical upbringing. At 14, Kim began playing guitar on a borrowed acoustic. Later, Kim taught herself to play her favorite songs, but debilitating stage fright kept her from her dream of becoming a performer. In 2014 Kim set out to overcome her stage fright and wrote her first song. Kim teamed with Grammy-nominated producer Jon Evans (Tori Amos) to record "Above Ground” and “Up Around The Bend”, each charting on the Folk Alliance International DJ and North American College & Community Radio charts. Kim and Jon collaborated again for her third album, “The Seven Fires Prophecy: Suite for Humanity” (2023), an 8-song suite that ties the ancient Anishinaabe prophecy to our current social environment. The project blossomed from Kim’s desire to share what she learned about Indigenous teachings and the important and relevant life lessons they offer. Kim's rich vocals, described as “a blend of honey and whiskey,” gently guides listeners through her musical stories while her compositions tug at feelings of melancholy, heartbreak, healing, and social consciousness. Susan Cattaneo is one of Boston’s most respected singer-songwriters. Respectful of tradition, but not bound by it, Susan blends rock, folk, and blues with a healthy dose of country. Call it New England Americana with a twang. In 2018, she was nominated for Best Americana Artist at the Boston Music Awards, and she performed and won the Connecticut Folk Festival. Her album The Hammer and The Heart charted #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and yielded a #1 song on folk radio and a top 10 album of 2017. The album reflects her love for collaboration, featuring 40 local and national artists, including Mark Erelli, The Bottle Rockets, Bill Kirchen, Jennifer Kimball, Dennis Brennan, and Jenee Halstead, just to name a few. She was an Emerging Artist at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and a finalist or winner at some of the country’s most prestigious songwriting and music contests including Kerrville’s New Folk Contest (2018 and 2015), the Philadelphia Songwriters Project, the Wildflower Festival Songwriters Contest, the International Acoustic Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards, the 5 Unsigned Only Song Contest, the USA Songwriting Competition, the Mountain Stage New Song Contest and the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. Susan has also been teaching songwriting at the Berklee College of Music for over 15 years and has performed all over New England with Western Mass trio The Boxcar Lilies. She currently tours in the Indie pop duo Honest Mechanik, who received Best Folk Album nomination from the 2021 Boston Music Awards. $25. For tickets visit www.cultural-center.org or call 508-394-7100. The Cultural Center of Cape Cod is located at 307 Ola Main St., South Yarmouth.