Over the last thirty-five years he has been able to fix anything that came his way. He was born Februin Ashtabula, the son of Dannie and Barbra (Sespico) Cook and had been a lifelong resident of Ashtabula until 2013 when he moved to Florida.Ī 1983 graduate of Edgewood High School and from the small engine repair program at the Ashtabula County Joint Vocational School. Check your email before the concert for information about beverage and snack packages available for pick up at Horseradish prior to the concert.The Villages, FL- Christopher J Cook, 56, passed away Friday May 7, 2021, unexpectedly while at work. ![]() This concert is also a partnership with Horseradish Kitchen + Market, a lunch-service restaurant under the same management. You can learn more about Parlor Hotel and inquire about availability at. We are excited to host Phil Cook as we launch this new space and invite attendees to round out their concert experience with a night or two in one of our rooms. Currently in our soft-open phase, we are testing out the space with groups and special events. Parlor Hotel is a soon-to-be opened seven-room boutique hotel in Princeton, WI. It’s not so much looking backwards as it is just looking around, reflections on all that is human and divine and present, and the roads we’ve taken to get us there. He distills decades of friendship, brotherhood, family, love, learning, and loss into flickering piano portraits - impressionistic and fluid and reverent. Through composing the music, he began to reflect on specific and important presences in his life, and ends up capturing their essence via keys here. When Cook began these songs, he was in the headspace of meditating on the people in his support network, and those closest to him. The resulting All These Years record is near hymn-like, a collection of prayers or meditations, improvisations threaded together by feeling, by the things that matter most. It’s also where Cook’s wife, Heather, worked for years for his family, it’s like a second home. The church’s cavernous space has long been integral to Cook’s day-to-day life as an artist - a venue that suggests music as a higher power, and art-making as a form of worship - a place that elevates the act of writing a song to something beyond sacred. All These Years feels like starting over, or like a return, trimming everything back to its original starting place. Piano is where Cook is the most expressive, an easy, free flow of emotional output. These ten pieces came to life on a long-cared-for and much-loved one-hundred year-old Steinway over a week in the spring of 2021. Cook and Joseph have been close their entire lives, with Joseph being one of the people who knows the full depth of Cook’s relationship to the instrument. ![]() In that way, All These Years is sort of the first proper introduction to Cook, to the way he can express himself with the most ease and reveal the deepest compartments of his heart.Īll These Years is Cook’s first solo instrumental album on his primary instrument, recorded at NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham, NC by his cousin and collaborator Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Indigo Girls). But even across all the work he’s done in his decades as a musician, he’s yet to release a proper piano album. A sweet and affable presence whose musical dexterity elevates every project he touches, Cook’s musical output and true sound has been hard to pin down. ![]() A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and in-demand musician whose collaborations have run the gamut of genre - as a founding member of beloved band Megafaun to work with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Hiss Golden Messenger, to name a few - Cook has always been a musician’s musician. This will be a seated performance and a very limited number of tickets are available.įor Phil Cook, it all started with piano. Please join us for a rare and intimate solo performance from Phil Cook as he presents music from his newest album All These Years.
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