Author: Jay E Moores

  • On The Town

    On The Town

    with Amy Browne WERU Community Radio promoting The Groon Show Live at the Basil Burwell Theatre in Belfast, Maine.

  • Groon Merch

    Groon Merch

    Jay has been making amazing handscreened shirts for The Groon Show. Each one is unique and awesome!

    Jay also made a bunch of broccoli on chains. Jack has been wearing one around town and getting all kinds of attention.

    “Is that broccoli?”

    “Why, yes! Yes, I’m wearing a broccoli on a chain.”

    Here we have Papa Groon and Mama Groon keeping their Baby Groon quiet with the broccoli on a chain. It works! 🥦

  • Dark Ride 25th Anniversary

    Dark Ride 25th Anniversary

    Mark Harvey World

    On October of 2000 Jay E Moores and Mark Harvey of Rain Station released a Halloween party album (or music to bop along to while waiting in line at a haunted attraction). Jay made animations for each of the 13 songs at JackOLantern.org 🎃 Children of all ages grew up watching them year after year. Dark Ride by Rain Station is now a Halloween classic.

    To celebrate 25 years of Dark Ride, Robert Whittington (FIDreams) created this animated tribute to kick off the season.

    Add Dark Ride to your Halloween Spotify playlist.

  • Visitation of Padre Pio

    We celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Padre Pio. Read my story on Substack.

  • Lost In America

    Lost In America

    A fun hoedown song by Jay E Moores, with banjo by Mac Slone, bass by Hazel de Mesa, and party whooping by Tatum Freeman and Liz McCurdy. Yeeehaw!!!

  • Girls With Books

    Girls With Books


    Girls with Books draws attention to the importance of educating girls and women in our world. Mothers are the first educators for all. Jay E Moores wrote the song and plays drums and electric guitar. Hazel de Mesa plays bass guitar, piano, and sings backing vocals. Beaver the Fifer adds her flute. We record in a gothic revival church built in 1893 on the coast of Maine.

  • California Burns

    California Burns


    My heart goes out to those who lost their homes in the California fires. We had folk sleeping on floors, in the hall, and in our laundry room. We watched my friend Josh’s house blow up on the news. It was surreal. Jay E Moores wrote the song and plays baritone ukulele. Hazel de Mesa adds bass and backing vocals. Sean Kennedy plays bluesy lead guitar. Jazmin Kennedy brings more backing vocals. We record in a gothic revival church built in 1893 on the coast of Maine. We intend to promote this song on social media channels and perform live.