Scott Cook , Mike Mudd

Canadian troubadour Scott Cook returns to Hsinchu to release his new CD, in the company of local songwriter Mike Mudd. Music starts 9pm sharp, 250nt at the door with a free drink. Titty Tea is located at #2 Jia Feng 2 Street Section 2, Zhubei City (竹北市嘉豐二街二段2號).

Scott Cook - http://www.scottcook.net

Canada's own prairie balladeer Scott Cook is a tirelessly traveling DIY songwriter with heart forever on sleeve. Road-worn, painfully honest, and deeply human, his straight-talking tunes weave together folk, roots, blues, soul and country with spacious fingerstyle guitar and clawhammer banjo arrangements. Scott spent six years on Taiwan, tangling with kindergarteners and playing music on weekends, before trading it all in for the life of a full-time musical hobo in North America. He's been making a full-time living on the road since 2007, touring extensively across Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia, and is currently on tour in support of his fourth release, One More Time Around. Its opening track "Pass It Along" won the Folk and Acoustic category in the 2013 UK Songwriting Contest, with UK magazine Maverick Country naming him "one of Canada's most inspiring and imaginative storytellers". 2013 finds him returning to Taiwan to release the new CD, touring around the island by motorbike, and reuniting with his old band the Anglers.

Mike Mudd - http://www.mikemudd.net

Whether performing as a one-man band or fronting his four piece band 'Chen Mo', you can expect explosive stage presence, emotionally driven songs, and pure heart. Mike combines acoustic finger-style and flat-pick guitar, harmonica-in-a-rack, ukulele, and auxiliary percussion. Demonstrating a clearly alternative artistic vision, Mike's 300+ original songs span the emotional and stylistic gamut. Self-deprecating country ditties, heart melting love songs, confessional folk, vampire blues, sexy funk, romantic gypsy, obsession, comedy and drama are all represented in his body of work. Courtney Donovan-Smith of Compass Magazine wrote that "his collaboration with local musicians demonstrates the power of cross-cultural exchanges in sparking creativity", while Ian Kuo in The Status Kuo said: "Between his highly charged vocals and non-stop movement, there's absolutely no way you're going to sit still."