Award winning Canadian folk duo Scott Cook and Pamela Mae are currently on a performance trek across the American continent heading east toward Marblehead. Cook and May have chosen Me&Thee Music as their East Coast venue after gigs in Bozeman, Edmonton, Calgary, Omaha, Tulsa, Asheville, Roanoke, upstate New York and then Marblehead on Friday, Oct. 4, at 8 p.m.
Albertan songwriter Scott Cook quit his job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan and moved into a minivan. He’s made his living as a troubadour for over 10 years, touring across Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, 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, 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. RnR Magazine in Canada writes that “he sings his heart and soul, and in doing so lets light flood into your own. (Scott is) truly one of Woody Guthrie’s children.”
Scott’s single “Say Can You See” took top honors for the folk category in both the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition and the Great American Song Contest. He’s been back on the road full-time since January of 2022, living in a camper van lovingly named ‘Roadetta.”
Free general admission tickets are $10. Student tickets are only available at meandthee.org. Locally, tickets for all concerts are on sale at Arnould Gallery, Washington Street, Marblehead. No phone orders are accepted and no other ticket websites are authorized.
Doors open at 7:15 p.m., and the music begins shortly after 8 p.m. Me&Thee is an all-volunteer, non-profit arts organization at the UU Church, 28 Mugford St., Marblehead, now in its 55th Season. Freshly baked desserts, mulled cider, coffee, tea and seltzers are available before the show and during intermission.