Scott Cook & Pamela Mae - presented by GHS and Trust Books

Scott Cook and Pamela Mae - presented by GHS and Trust Books

The sessions are back!

Welcome to Gage House Sessions presents Scott Cook and Pamela Mae! Join us for an unforgettable evening of intimate music in the listening space at Trust Books.

Find out more at:

Website: http://www.scottcook.net/

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. 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 honours for the folk category in both the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition and the 2020 Great American Song Contest. Since early 2022 he's been touring steadily around North America with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass, banjo and vocals, visiting 43 states and 8 provinces while broadcasting solar-powered livestreams from the back of their campervan Roadetta. This year they've already completed a three-month tour of Australia, and are recording a new album called Troubadourly Yours. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.

"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. ✭✭✭✭✭" –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." –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

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As I've been traveling around, the power and magic of a small listening room has set it's hooks firmly in me. I also have been crossing paths with musicians that are truly something special. The Gage House Sessions are coming back so that we can have something like that in Akron, and where I can bring in some of those musicians to share with you.

This series is going to be limited to 25 available seats, a suggested donation of $20 to the music, and will feature original touring acts from around North America.

Thank you for being here and being interested in something bigger than one.

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Details

• Doors at 6pm. Show starts at 7pm.
• this is a listening room. Players will share two 45 minute sets with a breif intermission. There is no talking during performances besides interaction with the artist.
• Artists will have merchandise for sale before and after the show, as well as the intermission
• this is in a book store, so come early to look through the books
• seats are capped at 25, so please only reserve a ticket if you plan on joining
• donations go all to the touring act to keep the wheels rolling. Suggested $20 but feel free to share more and if things are tight just let me know and we can pick up the slack.
• any questions, please email [email protected]

Host or Publisher Gage House Sessions