Scott Cook & Pamela Mae

Wednesday January 14

7.30pm

Live Music at the Courthouse

Born in West Virginia and raised on the Canadian prairies, Scott Cook quit a job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan in 2007 to embark on the life of a full-time troubadour. Since then he’s toured steadily across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.

Living out of backpacks and campervans, averaging over a hundred shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and distilling his experiences into empathetic, keenly observant verse, he describes himself as a prairie balladeer and an awestruck vagabond . Scott has completed ten tours of Australia already, including talked-about performances at Woodford, Port Fairy, Cobargo, Candelo, Cygnet, Healesville, Mullumbimby, Newstead, Kangaroo Valley, Dorrigo, Maldon, Illawarra, the National, and Yackandandah folk festivals.

He recorded his seventh album _Tangle of Souls_ in Trentham, Victoria with his intercontinental string band Scott Cook and the She’ll Be Rights. The album 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 second most-played 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.

He’s been back on the road full-time since January of 2022 with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass and vocals, and recording his eighth album. In 2025/26 he and Pamela Mae are bringing the new album around Australia in their trusty HiAce, Hector. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.

“He sings his heart and soul, and in doing so lets light flood into your own... He has a good eye for imagery, a gentle human touch, a wry sense of humour, a whole lot of integrity, a warm, rugged voice and a bunch of memorable lines... Truly one of Woody Guthrie’s children.” RnR Magazine

“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.” —Mark Jacobs, presenter, Notional Space

Support Act - The Mafeking Hillbillies

Doors open 7pm.Tickets $30/$25 conc