mollie o’brien & rich moore

Mollie O’Brien and her husband, guitarist Rich Moore, have for over 30 years quietly made it their mission to find, mine and reinvent other artists’ songs. They are geniuses at the craft of interpretation in the way that great singers, since the beginning of popular American music, have made the songs of their era their own. As songwriters they add their own tunes to the canon of American roots music they inhabit and show us they’re completely at home with their musical selves. 

Mollie has long been known as a singer who doesn’t recognize a lot of musical boundaries, and audiences love her fluid ability to make herself at home in any genre while never sacrificing the essence of the song she tackles. She is a singer at the very top of her game who’s not afraid to take risks both vocally and in the material she chooses. She’s known for her work with her brother, Tim O’Brien; as a regular on A Prairie Home Companion; as a background vocalist; for her solo recordings on Sugar Hill Records, and for her excellent cooking. Mollie won a Grammy in 1997 for her participation in Sugar Hill Records True Life Blues and is a member of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. 

Rich, while known to produce some of the funniest onstage running commentary, is also a powerhouse guitar player who can keep up with O’Brien’s twists and turns, from blues to traditional folk to jazz to rock and roll. He creates a band with just his guitar and, as a result, theirs is an equal partnership.

Between them they have released sixteen CDs including four as a duo on their label Remington Road Records; a CD with their daughters, Brigid and Lucy Moore; and Rich’s solo CDs Voiceless, (recorded in 2020 during the first months of the pandemic) and Steady State (in 2001). Their latest CD, Lost In The Crowd, was released in 2025.