SCOTT COOK & PAMELA MAE
THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2026 | DOORS AT 19:00, MUSIC FROM 19:30
THIS IS A GIFT ECONOMY EVENT
Scott Cook and Pamela Mae are the obscure answer to the infrequently asked question: who have given two of the most thrilling performances in the history of Notional Space? Scott describes his songs as “equal part introspection and insurrection”; but we’d add that the songs are tightly, smartly written and performed with a spare, intimate beauty. The first single from Scott’s soon to be released 8th album, “There Is a River”, has already won the grand prize in the Great American Song Contest.
About Scott
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 a hundred shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and releasing eight albums of plainspoken, keenly observant verse along the way. His 2020 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. 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 with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass and vocals, crisscrossing 45 States and 8 Canadian provinces as well as a lot of Australia, New Zealand and Western Europe. In 2026 they’re releasing Scott’s eighth album Troubadourly Yours packaged in a 264-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations, and its first single “There Is a River” has already won the grand prize in the Great American Song Contest. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.