Penzie’s Bistro LIVE
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An Island sensation for years, Nudie has toured long and far and played in venues of all sizes across North America. Along with club & festival shows in Canada & the United States, Nudie has showcased at the North by Northeast Festival, the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals, the Americana Music Festival in Nashville and the North American Folk Alliance in Memphis, Tennessee. His songs have been featured in CTV television’s Saving Hope as well as the soon to be released film, A Small Fortune. Join Nudie for a preview of his upcoming release, Love & Money
Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
Show: 8-10pm Approx.
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Inn Echo is emerging as one of the traditional music scene’s most electrifying new acts. The band is the culmination of four unique musical backgrounds from across Canada, the United States, and Ireland. With the goal of bringing a modern influence to the tradition of sharing and arranging tunes, this multi-award nominated group adds a tinge of jazz, pop, and even electronic music to the trad art form.
Seating for Dinner begins at 6:30pm- Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner.
Show runs from 8-10pm approx.
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Nick Doneff was born in Fort Erie, Ontario and has called Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island home since 2013. Doneff has a reputation with artists from the island and beyond as a savvy and dependable sideman. He has received a MusicPEI award for Musician of the Year and is currently working with some of Prince Edward Island’s finest acts including Liam Corcoran, Two Hours Traffic, and Catherine MacLellan. However, Doneff is not to be overlooked as an independent artist. He has earned a dedicated fanbase with his earnest songwriting, intricate musicianship, and laid-back presence on the stage. After describing him as a mix between John Prine and Joel Plaskett on CBC’s flagship arts & culture program, “Q”, host Tom Power simply stated that Nick Doneff is an artist that “you have to hear.”
Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
Show: 8-10pm Approx.
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Gahan Beacon Blonde Ale presents J.P. Cormier LIVE at Penzie’s Bistro (Shaw’s Hotel) July 9th!
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Nobody really knows who J.P. Cormier is for sure. That’s to be expected, believe me. In 1974 he was a five year old boy, discovering an innate talent for playing the guitar, I had a little hand in that, guiding him through the beginning stages. He learned faster than I could teach. By the mid eighties, not out of his teens, he was a sideman for bands and artists of many different genres in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and all across the deep south. As he travelled and worked he added more and more instruments to his arsenal of capabilities. He became indispensable to the bands he worked for. In the early Nineties, he became a sideman for one of Canada’s favourite sons, Stompin’ Tom Connors and also became a staple of the recordings at Studio H in Halifax. His work with the CBC there, spanned musical, production and arranging duties. All this before he was 20. In the mid nineties he reentered the musical scene of his beloved East Coast and the Island called Cape Breton. He exploded onto the trad music scene there as a fiddler, performing some of the most difficult music ever produced by legends like Winston Fitzgerald and Angus Chisholm with a facility that stunned onlookers. Especially those who knew he wasn’t born there, but born in Ontario to Cape Breton parents. Somehow, some way, his music was the real thing, sounding like he had been steeped continually in a handed-down brew of family tradition from the old country. Nothing could be further from the truth. His previous gig was in Nashville playing mandolin and banjo in a grammy nominated bluegrass gospel band and performing on the Opry, and playing television shows with the likes of Waylon Jennings. All those people also thought he was one of them, American, reared in the ways of bluegrass, old time and Americana music. They knew he was from Canada, but it just didn’t seem possible. Then in 1997, something amazing happened. An album released in Canada, out of nowhere, called Another Morning. This time it was him as a songwriter and a lead singer. And what a songwriter he turned out to be. Some of the performances on that album are literally part of the musical vocabulary today in the East Coast. Songs like the title cut, and Kelly’s Mountain, The Molly May (co written with his cousin Gervais) and others. It inspired, 25 years ago, some of the biggest names in the business today. People like Dave Gunning, Matt Andersen, David Myles, Joel Plaskett, all of which will tell you: that record changed things. The Canadian industry thought so too, and it received a juno nomination and won an ECMA. And that was just the beginning. 36 years later after stepping on stage as professional union musician for the first time at the tender age of 13, JP is still going, and frighteningly, still getting better. 16 albums followed the success of Another Morning, winning 12 more ECMA’s, another Juno nomination, a Canadian Folk Music Award and 5 Music Nova Scotia Awards. Each album was a snapshot of each thing that he can do. There are fiddle albums, Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar, tribute records, songwriting collections, a purely astounding spectrum of talent and musical vision. His catalogue of recordings and the 150 or so records he’s produced on other artists, resemble the tapestry he weaves in live performance. Where he used to carry 3 and 4 piece bands, he tours alone now. Of all the things he is, foremost he is an entertainer. I think one of the best. After you’ve seen what he does, I’m certain you will too.
Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
Show: 8-10pm Approx.
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Nolan Compton is a singer/songwriter from rural PEI, Canada. His style has been influenced by artists such as Merle Haggard, Keith Whitley, George Strait, and modern artists like Josh Turner, Chris Young, and Luke Combs. Nolan is currently working on his debut album produced by Jon Matthews of The Sound Mill which will be released in 2021!
Trinity has been writing music since she was 10 years old, and singing (on her karaoke machine) since the age of 3. While living in Calgary, Alberta, Trinity took home the 2016 Rising Star Award and 2017 Female Artist of the year at the Alberta Country Music Awards and performed for thousands of screaming fans at the Calgary Stampede Nashville North Main Stage for many years. She has also performed at the Bluebird in Nashville, The legendary Viper Room in Los Angeles and many of the biggest Country Music Festivals all over Canada. Trinity is very excited to be back home in PEI, where she can help inspire young talent and continue living through her music. She has decided that choosing a genre doesn’t really work for her Authentic Style, and will not fit her music into a certain market. Trinity hopes to release new music in 2021.
Country artist Cory Gallant began to make a name for himself in 2018, when he became the winner of the CCMA National Spotlight Performance Contest. Since then, he has let nothing stop him from moving forward in a full-speed-ahead direction – not even a pandemic. His country roots run deep, being raised on the outlaw sounds of Waylon Jennings, George Jones, and Merle Haggard. He is still just as passionate about the genre to this day. Cory’s currently working with renowned producer Jason Barry on his next single.
Brooke MacArthur is a country singer/songwriter who released her first two singles called “Good Like Summertime” and “In a New Town” in the spring of 2020. Born in 1997, MacArthur was raised in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. She grew up listening to country music and idolized Country music stars like Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Shania Twain. Beginning at the age of 12, she fell in love with being on stage and started performing with her school band, local venues and community festivals. After graduating from high school, she attended Saint Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. Throughout her four years of studying Kinesiology, she realized that she was missing music in her life. She decided upon graduation that she was going to pursue music full time by songwriting and performing. Last year, she had the opportunity to fly to Nashville to record four original songs. She was lucky enough to perform at several drive-in concerts, virtual shows and collaborate with numerous artists. Brooke is looking forward to sharing new original music in 2021!
Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
Show: 8-10pm Approx.
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Canadian singer-songwriter Rachel Beck’s sophomore record, Stronger Than You Know, is an echoing cry-out from a forest, a chilling dance upon a grave, an arrow shooting straight to the heart. It is a call to strength. Intimate and close, the six-track EP, produced by Daniel Ledwell, is sonically decorated amidst compelling electronic rhythms and dreamy synth layers. Beck’s vocals float across the vivid, harmony-laden, ethereal soundscape for which she has become known.
Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
Show: 8-10pm Approx.
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Ben Caplan is both the roar of the hurricane and the eye of the storm. He has an uncanny ability to channel both wild abandon and quiet introspection. Ben released his first studio album in 2011, and has spent the last ten years recording music and performing to ever growing audiences in music clubs and theatres around the world. For the ten year anniversary of his first release, Caplan has recorded a retrospective collection of stripped back re-interpretations of songs from across his catalogue. The album, entitled Recollection, will be released in October of 2021 followed by an extensive European and Canadian tour.
Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
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Bringing the hoedown to every honkytonk across the Island, The Good Ol’ Boys deliver the classic country stylings of: Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and more! Don’t let their youthful faces fool you-The Good Ol’ Boys perform all of the outlaw drinkin’ and cheatin’ songs that will make you want to dust off those old cowboy boots and dance up a storm!
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Show: 8-10pm Approx.
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Dave Gunning is best defined as a master craftsman. Over the course of 23 years and 11 earlier albums, the Nova Scotian folk singer/songwriter has diligently sharpened his skills, developing into a poetic storyteller and emotionally convincing singer with few equals.
Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
Show: 8-10pm Approx.
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Originally hailing from PEI, Dan Hendricken is one of the top comics to come out of the Maritimes. He cut his teeth in comedy at the Yuk Yuk’s club in Halifax and in just a few short years was featured on CBC TV as part of the Halifax Comedy Festival. Since then, Dan has headlined comedy clubs all over the country, including Yuk Yuk’s flagship club in downtown Toronto. He draws in every audience he performs for with his easy charm and like-ability.
Dan brings a selection of great comics to join him. Check Shaw’s Hotel and Penzie’s Bistro social media to see who will be joining him closer to the event.
Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
Show: 8-10pm Approx.
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