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About the Artist

“In 2025, I am grateful and very happy for the wonderful opportunities my wife Kristi and I have had to pursue many many musical and songwriting paths. In addition to this wonderful second Terradise residency, many teaching programs through Marion Voices in the Schools, and a constant performance schedule throughout the year playing as the Full Moon duo, I could not ask for a more fulfilling and fun artistic life.” — Steve Moore, Songwriter & Full Moon Band

Artist’s Works

As I look back in my life at the different paths I took, and their combined lessons, failures, challenges, and this ultimate landing spot in my life, I have arrived feeling very grateful and quietly inspired by it all.

As a youngster growing up, I initially had no obvious connection or leanings towards Nature, and was busy with a major health issue and hospital stays.

The love of Music crept in on me in somewhat odd but memorable ways, starting with listening to the 45’s that belonged to my mom and dad and were always stacked and ready to play by the dining room door. These 1950’s hit songs along with a few pink kids’ records captured my attention and snuck into my brain as a sweet theme-song for my life as it was. Heck, I even remember while in the hospital that the little horribly tinny-sounding hand-held music remote encouraged me as it belted out Steve and Eydie’s “This Could be the Start of Something Big”….and “Volare”.

These songs and times stuck like tar on my brain.

As the 60’s unfolded, my attention and time found it’s path to totally surrendering to the joys of sitting for hours with my brother listening to AM Radio, usually CKLW, out or Detroit/Windsor, and spending any and all allowance monies on records.

Then, as music played the backdrop for my early teens, I started moving into an interest in Nature, and going from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts, I found myself enchanted by woodlands and wildlife.

After some years of personal growth, personal mistakes, and feeling my way through my own connections, relationships, and changes, I found myself in my 30’s, totally lost in a passion for Natures’ wild creations, and with a desire to “build” a Nature preserve and do wildlife work.

At this same time I discovered Earth First !, the supposedly “radical” environmental group expressing a total love and attention to the remaining Nature that we had left.

I was hooked !, and not just by the authentic-feeling old-time spirituality of embracing Nature in her purity, but by the amazing “green” songs and music

coming out of the Earth-loving campfire strummers and writers singing out their poems and holy inspiration to the sky.

As my passion for this path and purpose grew, so did my desires to write my own songs and find my own voice around the campfire, so I became the beginning of my being a singer/songwriter without hesitation.

Since I had found and bought my place along the river in 1986, I also immediately began to plant native trees and plants….hundreds of them, each year, and, at the same time, gaining the permits and classes to become a licensed Ohio Wildlife Rehabilitator and creating the Opossum Valley Wildlife Center.

After years of wildlife rescue and rehab work, I fell into a period of serious illness that brought it all to a halt, including my “day job” at Honda.

Needing a couple of years to stop and recover, I stopped the wildlife work but increased my songwriting, started home recording my own CD’s, and performing house concerts of my original songs and music.

As writing and performing now became my focus, I found myself joining with different friends to do shows, and became wonderfully busy in all of it.

As I performed at a little church in Bellville, Ohio, I found my life’s true love and soul mate, who also happened to be a very talented pianist and singer, and locked in for life with this wonderful partnership in music.

So, my journey through music and writing, beginning as a songwriter simply known as Opossum, to a “green” and quirky duo known as Tree of Life, to a busy and always booked Full Moon, playing 3 hour shows of the classic songs of the 60’s and 70’s that I grew up with, I have arrived at a wonderful and fulfilling apotheosis of my life.

I truly see in my lifetime, that the dual internal passions of Nature and Music, like the left and right hands of my life, come equally together, and as I may sit in a chair along the river strumming a chord celebrating the emerging of a spring bud on a Yellowwood tree, or a mink rambling along the bank, the Earth sings her own songs back to me.