Canadian roots singer in Europe
A roots balladeer with a rare personal warmth, Canada’s Scott Cook has managed to distil the stories collected over a decade of near-incessant touring across Canada, the USA, Europe, Asia, and Australia into straight-talking, keenly observant verse. Road-worn, painfully honest, and deeply human, his tunes weave threads of folk, roots, blues, soul and country over spacious fingerstyle guitar and clawhammer banjo arrangements. His fourth release, One More Time Around, was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award, and its opening track ‘Pass It Along’ won the Folk and Acoustic category in the 2013 UK Songwriting Contest. He’s currently touring around the world in support of his fifth album, Scott Cook and the Long Weekends Go Long. Cook is one of the hardest-working DIY troubadours on the road today, averaging over 160 gigs and a dozen festivals a year. All the hard miles notwithstanding, he still believes that songs can change your life, and your life can change the world.
SCOTT COOK · OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2016 UK/NETHERLANDS TOUR
All UK dates accompanied by Jez Hellard
OCTOBER
Wed 26 Long Buckby, Northants. House Concert
Thu 27 Forest Row, East Sussex Hop Yard
Fri 28 Bourne, Lincs. Wild Heart Café
Sat 29 King’s Cliffe, Northants. House Concert
Sun 30 Uppingham, Rutland House concert
NOVEMBER
Tue 1 Widnes House Concert
Wed 2 Berwick-upon-Tweed Barrels Ale House
Thu 3-Fri 4 Dunkeld Perthshire Amber Festival
Sat 5 Letham, Fife House Concert
Sun 6 Edinburgh House Concert
Fri 11 Steendam, Netherlands Podium Café ‘Peter en Leni’
Sat 12 Spijkerboor, Netherlands Café ‘t-Keerpunt
Thu 17 London Woodburner, The Styx Bar,Tottenham
Fri 18 Cranford, Northants. The Sofa Sessions
Sat 19 Kettering The Sofa Sessions
Sun 20 Bath The Bell Inn
Mon 21 Priddy, Somerset Queen Victoria Inn
Wed 23 Stroud The Prince Albert
Thu 24 Glastonbury Hawthorns
Fri 25 Priston, nr. Bath Priston Village Hall
Sat 26 Bristol Kings Weston House, The Oak Room
Sun 27 Worth Matravers The Square and Compass
