Scott Cook and Pamela Mae

Born in West Virginia and raised on the Canadian prairies, Scott Cook quit a job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan in 2007 to become a full-time troubadour. He's toured steadily across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere since then, averaging over a hundred shows and a dozen festivals every year while distilling his experiences into empathetic, keenly observant verse. His 2020 album Tangle of Souls spent two weeks at #1 back home on Alberta's province-wide community radio network CKUA, and earned Scott his third Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, for English Songwriter of the Year. Its second single "Say Can You See" was the #2 song of 2020 on Folk Alliance International's folk radio charts, and took top honours for the folk category in both the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition and the 2020 Great American Song Contest. Since January of 2022 he's been touring full-time with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass and vocals. They've crisscrossed 45 States, 8 Canadian provinces, and a fair bit of Europe, Australia and New Zealand, but this is their first appearance in Pamela's old hometown of Yellowknife! They've brought along Edmonton multi-instrumentalist and longtime collaborator Elliot Thomas, and Scott's eighth album Troubadourly Yours. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.

“These are whip-smart, bone-achingly lovely, socially committed songs presented with a bold, elegant directness evoking the very best of the folk music tradition. Last night's performance in Notional Space was a thing of rare beauty.” —Notional Space