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      Music in the Atrium: Indigenous Spotlight

      Sunday, April 19, 2026 from 11:30 am—1:30 pm

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      Kim Moberg and Heather Swanson

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      Location: Main Atrium
      Included with admission 
      This program includes amplified music.

      Join us in celebrating an array of Indigenous musicians! Each Sunday in April will feature a different musical group.

      April 12: Hawk Henries (Chaubunagungamaug band of Nipmuc)
      April 19: Kim Moberg (Alaskan Native Tlingit descent) and Heather Swanson
      April 26: Thea Hopkins (Aquinnah Wampanoag)

      Music in the Atrium is PEM’s live concert series that features local and visiting performers from a variety of musical traditions and styles. Concerts take place on select Sundays from 11:30 am–1:30 pm.

      Collection Connection:  After the concert, be sure to visit the Native American and American artworks in On this Ground: Being and Belonging.

      About our collaborators 

      Kim Moberg

      Kim Moberg was born in Juneau, Alaska, the daughter of a mother of Alaskan Native Tlingit descent and a US Coast Guard veteran father from Kansas.  Music was a constant in her childhood, helping her to adjust to the frequent moves associated with growing up in a military family. She began playing guitar at age 14 but stage fright kept her from becoming a performer. In 2014 Moberg set out to overcome her stage fright and wrote her first song. She teamed up with Grammy-nominated producer Jon Evans to record four albums, all charting on the Folk Alliance International DJ charts. Her 2023 release “The Seven Fires Prophecy Suite for Humanity” ties an Anishinaabe legend and prophecy to our current social environment in song. Her fourth album “All That Really Matters,” was released in January 2026. Learn more at www.kimmobergmusic.com

      Heather Swanson

      Heather Swanson is a classical violinist who crossed over to folk and traditional Celtic music. She grew up in a large family in the Boston area, where there were many opportunities to grow in her relationship with music and the violin. She played in the pit orchestra each year for the Gilbert & Sullivan shows and traveled with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony, which led her to study music at Boston University and UMass/Lowell. She is a music educator, specializing in the Suzuki Method at her private studio.  Moberg performs with her cellist daughter Krista Lucich as the Cape Violin Cello Duo, as an accompanist for singer/songwriter Kim Moberg and in a duo playing Traditional Irish Folk music.

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