Hard Luck Cafe
Presented with the Folk Music Society of Huntington (FMSH)
SCOTT COOK & PAMELA MAE
Wednesday, October 16th at 7 PM
$25 Public | $20 Members
Scott Cook & Pamela Mae will take
the stage during the monthly Hard Luck Café concert series!
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 releasing
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, equal parts introspection and
insurrection. 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. He’s been back on the road full-time since January of 2022, living in a
campervan named Roadetta with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass and vocals, visiting 43 states and 8
Canadian provinces, and broadcasting solar-powered livestreams from the back of
the van. In 2024 they're touring Australia and North America, and recording an
eighth album for release in the fall.