Along the way Scott released six albums of songs informed by his travels and the profound commonality among the people he met. When the pandemic brought his thirteen years on the road to a halt, he fled back to Edmonton, where he produced online shows with his new housemates and finally found the time to finish a 240-page hardcover book to accompany his seventh album Tangle of Souls.
The songs were recorded in Australia with an intercontinental string band, while the book – written in Taiwan, the US and Canada – offers glimpses of road life and his own battles with self-doubt and self-destruction alongside the broader question of how we humans might somehow save ourselves from extinction.
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. Like all of Cook’s work, Tangle of Souls is story-based, straight-talking, and sturdy, born of the belief that songs can change your life, and your life can change the world.
Doors open 7:00pm
Show starts 7:30pm
Intermission around 8:30pm
Members just $20
Non-Members $25
Children free
Complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits at break. A cash bar is available for wine and beer.
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