Singer and songwriter Barbara Kessler is a performer on the rise. While her light-hearted tune "Mary Tyler Moore" made her a regional favorite in New England, her more serious work has established her on a national level. A past winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folks songwriter award in Texas, Kessler was named female acoustic artist of the year by the National Academy of Songwriters; her solo album Stranger to This Land, recorded during a March 1994 performance at the Kendall Cafe in Cambridge with guest appearances by Martin Sexton, Diane Ziegler, Cliff Eberhardt, D...