Bozeman Folklore Society is excited to welcome Scott Cook and Pamela Mae for their debut Bozeman performance this month. The show will be held at the Gallatin Labor Temple on Sunday, September 8th. Music begins at 7:30pm.
In 2007, Albertan songwriter Scott Cook quit his job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan and moved into a minivan. He’s made his living as a troubadour ever since, touring almost incessantly across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, averaging 150 shows and a dozen summer festivals a year – and has released seven albums of plainspoken, keenly observant verse along the way.
His latest collection, Tangle of Souls, comes packaged in a cloth-bound, 240-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations. The album spent two weeks at #1 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 second most-played song of 2020 on Folk Alliance International’s folk radio charts, and took top honors for the folk category in both the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition and the 2020 Great American Song Contest.
Since 2022, he’s been touring steadily around North America with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass, banjo and vocals, traveling through 43 states and 8 Canadian provinces while broadcasting solar-powered livestreams from the back of their campervan, Roadetta. This year they’ve already done a three-month tour of Australia, and are gearing up to release a new album and book entitled Troubadourly Yours. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.
Advance tickets are $10 at www.bozemanfolklore.org, or $15 at the door based on availability. Children 12 and under are admitted free. Doors at 7pm. Gallatin Labor Temple is located at 422 E Mendenhall.
Bozeman Folklore Society is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting, preserving, enjoying and sharing the music, dance, arts, crafts and skills of traditional cultures. There’s always a need for volunteers! For further event details or to pledge your support, visit the aforementioned website where you can also find a current list of all upcoming BFS concert and dance announcements. •
