Scott Cook Performance and Songwriting Workshop

Thursday, March 3, 2022

6:00-8:30 p.m.

Come enjoy keenly written folk music and explore songwriting with award-winning Albertan troubadour Scott Cook!

Event Schedule:

6:00 p.m.: Doors open

6:30-7:15 p.m.: Performance

7:15-7:30 p.m.: Intermission

7:30-8:15/8:30 p.m.: Songwriting Workshop

Tickets are on a sliding scale from $20-30. Attendees are welcome to come for the performance, the songwriting workshop, or both.

Additional Information

Covid-19 Requirements: Masking and social distancing are required.

Ages: This event is open to all ages. However, just like life, the workshop and performance will include the occasional bit of strong language and some challenging topics.

About the Performer/Instructor:

Albertan troubadour Scott Cook has travelled the world since 2007, 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. In 2022, he's touring the album around North America with his partner Pamela Mae on upright bass and banjo. For this event, Scott will be teaching a songwriting workshop on form as a gateway to creativity following the performance. He has taught songwriting at festivals and music camps in Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand, has been on faculty twice at the week-long Sisters Song Camp in Oregon, and ran his own music camp in Northern Alberta. Notwithstanding all the miles he's logged, he believes more than ever that songs can change your life, and your life can change the world.

https://scottcook.net/

"Scott Cook’s seventh 'love letter' to the world is all strings and beauty, a 12-song agnostic endorsement of love over fear...  It doesn’t condemn, it summons to one fire...  Of all his records this one simply feels the best. ✭✭✭✭✭" –Fish Griwkowsky, The Edmonton Journal

"Damn, this is a gorgeous album. Scott Cook’s voice –– vocally and lyrically –– is as clear-eyed, optimistic, and straightforward as ever...  Tangle of Souls is the medicine we could all use right now." –Rachel Cholst, Adobe and Teardrops

"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