Shows

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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Dennis Ellsworth is a songwriter, performer, sideman, and record producer from Charlottetown, PE. His songwriting career started in high school, filling notebooks with lyrics and poems. He grew up on the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Kris Kristofferson, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. His tastes evolved in grade 6 and he began collecting cassettes. His personal music collection is stylistically vast, overwhelmingly expansive and it bridges multiple formats.

Over the years he has collaborated with Josh Finlayson and Andy Maize from Skydiggers, Gord Downie from The Tragically Hip, Joel Plaskett, Donovan Woods, and David Barbe (producer of Drive-by Truckers and bass player for 90’s alt rock band Sugar.)

In 2015 Dennis signed a publishing deal with Cymba Music Publishing in Toronto, and has since written songs in a wide variety of styles from hip-hop, dance, k-pop, j-pop, chill-pop, new wave, rock, alt country, country, and folk. His own music has been placed in television shows for CBC, Netflix, HBO and was featured in the award-winning film, The New Romantic.

Ellsworth has released 2 full length albums with his previous group, Haunted Hearts, an album as a duo with Kinley Dowling, two EP’s and 10 full length solo albums, including his most recent triple album project called Bound by Love.

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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Brandon Howard Roy is a Music PEI-award nominated queer singer-songwriter based in Charlottetown, PEI. Born and raised in Montreal, he took classical piano lessons in his youth and practiced a total of 6 times in 8 years. The piano, however, would become his lifelong songwriting companion, and his first complete song It Kills Me Inside topped the charts in mom and dad’s living room some 14 years ago. With catchy hooks, relatable lyrics and a big voice cultivated from a life in the theatre, Brandon is well poised to make a big splash in the Island music scene and beyond.

Josh Carter is an Island-based musician whose memorable voice and prolific songwriting has helped bands like Coyote and Calm Baretta become two of PEI’s most enthralling rock bands. He has collaborated with electronic music artist Lonely Kid and has garnered Music P.E.I./ECMA award recognition with his respective projects. Branching off as a solo artist, his songwriting emphasizes his contemporary-folk sensibilities with a clear narrative arc and a likeness to early Sufjan Steven’s, Midlake and Elliot Smith.

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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Lawrence Maxwell cut his teeth on beer caps, rough waters, and country music. A 2021 ECMA award nominee and Music P.E.I. Award winner, this Prince Edward Island singer-songwriter captures the pain and triumph of everyday life and relates it to the spiritual experience.

Shane Pendergast is a folksinger from Tracadie Cross, Prince Edward Island. He learned to play by ear at an early age, immersed in a culture of family kitchen parties; by age 13 he was performing professionally on stage. Shane’s connection to Maritime folk music dates back to the efforts of his great-grandparents, preservers of folklore in P.E.I. Shane is carrying the torch forward with his own songs, inspired by rural life and Maritime history. At age 22, Shane is known as an “old-school troubadour,” performing upwards of 200 gigs a year. In 2020 he released his debut album, “Place to the Name.” One year later, on March 5th 2021, he released his second album, “Second Wind.”

Island-born and well-travelled, Thyme is a singer/songwriter who distills his experiences of the world around him into songs that resonate with lessons learned. Possessing a distinct guitar style, smooth vocals and uplifting/thoughtful lyrics, Thyme immerses his listeners in music that feels like an old friend. Thyme has been a familiar face around the Island music scene for several years playing as a supporting and session musician for various Island artists. After years on the scene, experimenting and discovering his own sound, it is now time for Justyn to share his music.

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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Don Ross began playing guitar virtually by accident.

There was always a lot of music around the house. Don’s dad is an operatically-trained singer. So, the Ross kids heard plenty of voice exercises around their Montreal home as well as classical music on the record player growing up (not to mention the occasional blast of the bagpipes when Don’s dad felt like waking up the neighbours with another musical skill he acquired growing up in Scotland!).

Don eventually studied Music at Toronto’s York University. Strangely enough, he didn’t focus on guitar but rather on composition, electronic music, and sound recording. Upon graduating, he had visions of being a composer of orchestral and electronic music or film scores..certainly not any delusions of playing solo guitar for a living. What changed his mind was seeing the success of musicians like Michael Hedges, Steve Reich and Keith Jarrett, player/composers who followed their musical intuitions wherever they led and who fell more into the category of “artist” rather than “guitarist” or “pianist.”

In 1988, Don became the first Canadian to win the U.S. National Fingerpick Guitar Championship. He won again in 1996, still the only two-time winner of the competition. He signed a recording deal with Toronto-based Duke Street Records and released three CDs for them between 1989 and 1993. He then recorded three CDs for Sony/Columbia between 1994 and 1997, and then three more for Milwaukee-based Narada Records between 1999 and 2003.

With the collapse of the conventional recording industry in the early 21st century, Don entered into a new venture with Milwaukee-based CandyRat Records and its founder, Rob Poland. The move to a completely internet-based model of releasing recordings resulted in the first ever CandyRat CD, 2005’s Music for Vacuuming. Don has released numerous CDs and DVDs for the new label, including his new album, A Million Brazilian Civilians, on CD and see-through orange vinyl. In 2019, Don released Don Ross Louder Than Usual, featuring his jazz quartet.

Don has toured regularly since 1989, across Canada, the USA, a dozen European countries, Japan, Taiwan, China, Australia, Russia and India. He has played with symphony orchestras in Canada and Germany, and collaborated live and on recording with U.S. guitarist Andy McKee, Canadian singer/guitarist Brooke Miller, Canadian guitarist Calum Graham, & Toronto bassist Jordan O’Connor. He also composes scores for television, radio and film, and does production and recording engineering for a variety of other musicians. In addition to acoustic guitar, Don also plays electric guitar, slide dobro and lapsteel guitar, harp guitar, voice, piano, keyboards, bass guitar and drums. He has just started learning to play the Kelstone, a 9-string guitar developed by Belgian musician/inventor Jan Van Kelst. At this point, Don admits that learning a new instrument from scratch at this point in his career is “humbling. I’m a rank amateur Kelstone player, and I still completely suck at it!”

Don Ross grew up in Montreal, has lived at various times in Ontario, Nova Scotia, the USA, China and Quebec, and now resides in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Seating begins at 6:30pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show)
Show: 8-10pm Approx.
Your tickets reserve your table. Please call 902-672-2022 if you would like to sit with another group.
Rooms and Cottages available! Call 902-672-2022 to reserve.