Corin Raymond & Scott Cook

Spend an evening with two of Canada’s finest songsmiths on one stage: Hamilton’s Corin Raymond, fresh off an Edmonton Fringe Festival run of his one-man play Bookmarks and backed by Naomi Jane Shore; and Edmonton’s Scott Cook and Pamela Mae, just setting off on a three-month tour of the USA.

Winnipeg-born, Ontario-raised singer/storyteller/troubadour Corin Raymond’s catalogue features songs that namecheck the likes of John Prine and Sam Cooke – Corin’s music lives somewhere between the two – and his songs have been covered by Dustin Bentall, The Strumbellas, The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer, The Good Lovelies, Scott Cook, and other far-flung fellow travellers. His JUNO-nominated 2016 album Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams was described by No Depression as “a hypnotic, literate collection of dark tall tales… Romantic, immediate, and narcotic,” and Corin will go along with that. Corin has made five albums, his most recent being Dirty Mansions, produced in Winnipeg by Scott Nolan and released at the end of 2019, just in time for the temporary end-of-life as we knew it. Corin was based out of Toronto for the development of his career, but for the time being keeps his stuff in Hamilton. “Corin Raymond is a storyteller who by the end of the night you’ll have known your whole life.” –The Globe and Mail

In 2007, Edmontonian 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, 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 CKUA, and earned Scott his third Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, for English Songwriter of the Year. Since early 2022 he’s been touring steadily around North America with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass, banjo and vocals, visiting 43 states and 8 provinces while broadcasting solar-powered livestreams from the back of their campervan Roadetta. This year they’ve already completed a three-month tour of Australia, and are recording a new album called Troubadourly Yours. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.