SPENCER SCHOLES

The music of Spencer Scholes at once exudes mystery, inspiration, and hope with a determination to overcome. His songs are the stories of a road-hardened adventurer who remains unquenched by a gauntlet of pitfalls and strife. Spencer's love for making and performing music has persevered through many unusual occupations.

Among them carpenters apprentice, tractor trailer driver, farm hand, and hobo troubadour. All the years of travel and labor resound throughout his songs. His performances are dynamic in range. From driving intensity, hypnotic rise and fall, to quirky, tender and direc his voice and guitar bring a volcanic energy to the stage.

He funnels all of his breath and focus into each song, seeming to draw fuel from the audienceto fuel his personal fire and the intensity is balanced by his wry sense of humor. Performing with or without a band, he embodies energetic folk rock on firm ground. With a voice that swells in a rare balance of strength and fragility, Scholes weaves his message using stunning color and detail, telling tales of real life… with all its pain, intimacy, struggle and triumph.

Spencer’s songwriting is seasoned and musicianship, unparalleled. His guitar playing is flat-out mesmerizing, while his fingers dance across the fret board with the agility of a water spider on a summer pond. This is not your father’s folk rock, Spencer Scholes commands your attention and delivers a point blank shot… straight to the soul.

Spencer Scholes is a classic musical storyteller in the tradition of Dylan and Robert Hunter. He plays with a desperateness that wrings every bit of emotion and meaning out of each note and chord. He reflects the truths of life, courageously baring his soul in a beautiful harmonic transparency.