The Apra Silver Scroll winner opened her set with Running Through the Fire, dedicated to her late father.
The Auckland-based singer-songwriter from Christchurch soon had the audience in stitches when she urged the preschool-aged children playing in front the stage to enter a "dance-off" while she played her hit Falling in Love Again, for the prize of a $50 bar tab from the winery.
Favourite tracks from her four albums were met with cheers and applause, while she fought gravity over her sliding-down pants.
Then she asked the audience if they would mind if she sang I Will Always Love You.
With no objections voiced, Moa gave uncanny impressions of Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston, then sang it as herself, but lampooned the wedding standard's vocal gymnastics, to laughs from members of the audience.
She introduced hit Dreams in My Head as "an unrequited love song" written when she was "in lust" with the woman (Azaria Universe) who became her partner.
The audience demanded an encore, then hushed when she played Little Bird in memory of her sister-in-law.
Moa ended her successful concert with a dubby reggae-tinged rendition of Youthful and left the crowd wanting more.
