Bringing up baby onstage: Earle, Moorer’s son makes public debut

Earle, Moorer’s baby makes stage debut

CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — John Henry Earle won’t remember his stage debut, but parents Steve Earle and Allison Moorer aren’t likely to forget.

Moorer carried the 2-month-old baby close to her chest and strode onstage Saturday as her husband performed at Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival festival in the riverside village of Croton-On-Hudson, about 35 miles north of their Manhattan home.

She added her harmonies to Earle’s “City of Immigrants.” The couple stood face-to-face and sang into a single microphone. Afterward, Earle brushed away a tear.

Moorer delivered the couple’s first child April 5 in New York. There’s a good chance John Henry Earle won’t be a stranger to the stage. Besides performing parents, Steve Earle’s older son, Justin Townes Earles, is a working singer-songwriter.