Bozeman Magazine

The Bozeman Folklore Society is excited to welcome Scott Cook and Pamela Mae for their debut Bozeman concert appearance! They will be performing at the Gallatin Labor Temple on Sunday, Sep. 8. 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 2022 he’s been touring steadily around North America with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass, banjo and vocals, travelling through 43 states and 8 Canadian provinces while broadcasting solar-powered livestreams from the back of their campervan Roadetta. This year they’ve already done a three-month tour of Australia, and are gearing up to release a new album and book entitled Troubadourly Yours. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you. Doors will open Sunday evening, Sep. 8, at 7:00 PM, and the show starts at 7:30 PM. Advance tickets are available for $10 each at https://bozemanfolklore.org/concert-scott-cook-pamela-mae/, and remaining tickets will be $15 each at the door. Children 12 and under are admitted for free. The Labor Temple is located at 422 E. Mendenhall in Bozeman. Feel free to bring your own refreshments for the show.