Scott Tournet at the 443 Social Club

Scott Tournet is a producer, mixing engineer, solo artist, the frontman for Elektric Voodoo, and a founding member of Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (2003-2015). With The Nocturnals he was a co-writer on 3 Top 40 albums and scored a gold record for the song “Paris”.

In addition to his work with the Nocturnals, Scott has written and recorded with Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Willie Nelson, T Bone Burnett, Kenny Chesney, Alison Krauss, Mark Batson (Dr. Dre, Alicia Keys, Eminem), and others. He has performed with The Allman Brothers, members of The Grateful Dead and Phish, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top,) and many others.

Grace, Matt, and Scott rode the wave of success with the Nocturnals. They started selling out shows regionally and soon signed with a booking agency and record label. They soon found themselves touring nationally and internationally with acts like Robert Plant, Mavis Staples, The Black Crowes, The Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule, and many others. They played Leno, Letterman, Fallon, Conan, Ellen, Good Morning America, etc. Their songs showed up on TV shows, movies, and commercials. They started their own festival, Grand Point North, that hosted acts like The Flaming Lips, The War On Drugs, Lake St. Dive, Warren Haynes, etc. They made records with T-Bone Burnett, Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Johnny Cash), Dan Auerbach, Mark Batson, Michael Brauer, Rich Costa, etc. They performed for and met President Obama, Bernie Sanders, and two governors of Vermont.

For Scott, the career success had been satisfying, but after a decade, he began longing for new challenges. “We unfortunately agreed to open for Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw in football stadiums for a summer. It was a terrible fit, and we only got to play for 30 minutes a show. Between stuff like that and only making an album every 3 years, I started to get creatively out of shape. We were always on the road, and so many days were spent in airplanes or on the set of a TV show, where we would wait around all day and then play music for 5 minutes. Also, our “appearance” began to become more important than the music. One day, I woke up and realized that I was very far away from who I was when I was at Goddard. I wanted to get back to music and what made me love it so much”.

Soon after this, Scott made the difficult decision to leave the band he helped build and abandon financial security and career certainty for the hope of rediscovering the joy of music and creativity. He took a few much-needed months off from the road in his sunny home studio in San Diego and started delving into the music he left behind when he left Goddard College. Afrobeat, experimental and psychedelic music, latin music, jazz, and more started showing up in his compositions. Soon, he had uncovered songs like he had never heard before. He called it World Beat Rock & Roll. Elektric Voodoo has put out three full-length albums and toured nationally. Since 2023, EV has been inactive due to the fact that Scott moved his family back to the East Coast.

In 2023, Scott released "Rock & Roll Stories" which he wrote, performed, mixed and mastered all himself. The album found some success on the radio and Scott formed his band "The Spark". Recently, he has been performing with his band and by himself acoustically. He has also been producing and mixing albums for other artists.

TICKET INFO:

• The 443 is an intimate listening room with table service that seats 75 people.

• The green squares/circles on the floor plan are bar-height tables, and the orange squares are regular-height tables.

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