{"id":3157,"date":"2024-04-02T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:17:56","slug":"sofar-stories-moira-mack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/sofar-stories-moira-mack","title":{"rendered":"Sofar Stories: Moira Mack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After moving to the sprawling Los Angeles metropolis, singer-songwriter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/artists\/moira-mack\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moira Mack<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> discovered the power of the natural world through hiking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI found that is a really crucial part of maintaining a balance in my life, when I\u2019m living in a city\u201d she said on a stroll along England\u2019s south coast in the most entry in our Sofar Stories series. \u201cTo get out somewhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With her Sofar Artist\u2019s Residence in London behind her, Mack took to the Seven Sisters Cliffs \u2013\u00a0a series of rugged white chalk cliffs along the English Channel \u2013 to reconnect with herself and\u00a0 her craft. After years of struggling with anxiety and depression, the great outdoors became a therapeutic release for Mack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hiking is now a vital part of her songwriting process and identity as a musician. Mack wrote <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/2fXQU9i2Wvydt9AHa7Uh32?si=e703dc0fe9804cb1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDon\u2019t Walk Ahead\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, her most played song on Spotify, while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. It was on this hike that she was given the rather fitting trail name \u2018Songbird\u2019. Mack is now walking ahead: carrying songs with her, leaving behind a version of herself, and forging a new community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m really enjoying collaborating with people I met here,\u201d Mack says. \u201cPeople I\u2019ve met through Sofar shows and some people that I knew before. It\u2019s nice to build a new community; I\u2019ve been so used to working within my own community in Los Angeles, which I also love. But you get so much inspiration from new collaborators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We joined her on the hike for our latest in the Sofar Stories series:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sofar Stories: Moira Mack - Walking Ahead\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOqkvzmkPcQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/\">Discover a Sofar Story<\/a> near you by coming to show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After moving to the sprawling Los Angeles metropolis, singer-songwriter Moira Mack discovered the power of the natural world through hiking.\u00a0 \u201cI found that is a really crucial part of maintaining a balance in my life, when I\u2019m living in a city\u201d she said on a stroll along England\u2019s south coast in the most entry in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[448,490],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-community","category-videos","tag-moira-mack","tag-sofar-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}