Penzie’s Bistro LIVE
Gahan Beacon Blonde Ale presents Scott MacKay w/ TBA LIVE at Penzie’s Bistro (Shaw’s Hotel) July 29th!
About this event
From the sounds of slapback echo, twangy Telecasters and swooning pedal steel, it’s clear that Scott MacKay has an affinity for country music of the 1950s and ‘60s. But the singer/songwriter from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island also has a sharp wit that shines through on the 10 original songs that comprise his latest album Stupid Cupid, a collection that offers a fresh, modern take on classic country.
Justyn Thyme is the artistic emancipation of ECMA nominated and Music PEI award-winning Justyn Young, multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter and child of Charlottetown, PEI. Having developed as a creator out of a collage of influences ranging from East Coast Roots and Americana to Mongolian Throat Singing and modern Soul fusion, he delivers a freshness of insight and musicality which reflects his deep relationship with self and the world.
Seating begins at 6:00pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show. We recommend reserving before 6:30pm if you would like dinner.)
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.
Gahan Beacon Blonde Ale presents Nudie LIVE at Penzie’s Bistro (Shaw’s Hotel) August 4th!
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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 6:00pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show. We recommend reserving before 6:30pm if you would like dinner.)
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.
Gahan Beacon Blonde Ale presents Nathan Wiley LIVE at Penzie’s Bistro (Shaw’s Hotel) August 5th!
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Hailing from Summerside, PE, Three time ECMA award and five time Music PEI award winning artist Nathan Wiley first earned acclaim for his 2002 debut BOTTOM DOLLAR, He made good on the promise of that release with follow up HIGH LOW two years later. His blend of classic sounds with a modern, slightly world weary perspective struck a chord with listeners, as songs full of subtle melodies and lyrics wormed their way into their ears. Next came THE CITY DESTROYED ME, (produced by Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin) then just last year, BANDITS (a six song EP) that was nominated for 4 Music PEI Awards.
Nathan has shared the stage with artists like Blue Rodeo, Sarah Harmer, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Matt Mays, Ron Sexsmith and many more. His work has appeared on tv, film and stage. Nathan splits his time these days between writing new material, producing other maritime acts (including an ECMA winning record for Gordie MacKeeman & his Rhythm Boys, Drea MacDonald and the Fluffy Little Cowboys) and scoring short films.
Seating begins at 6:00pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show. We recommend reserving before 6:30pm if you would like dinner.)
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.
Gahan Beacon Blonde Ale presents The Good Ol’ Boys LIVE at Penzie’s Bistro (Shaw’s Hotel) August 12th!
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The Good Ol’ Boys return to Shaw’s Hotel August 12th! Classic Country music for all occasions. Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, etc.
Featuring local performers: Lawrence Maxwell, Josh Langille, Sam Langille, and Rick Donair.
Seating begins at 6:00pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show. We recommend reserving before 6:30pm if you would like dinner.)
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.
Gahan Beacon Blonde Ale presents J.P. Cormier LIVE at Penzie’s Bistro (Shaw’s Hotel) August 14th!
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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.
Seating begins at 6:00pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show. We recommend reserving before 6:30pm if you would like dinner.)
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.
Gahan Beacon Blonde Ale presents Jackie Putnam LIVE at Penzie’s Bistro (Shaw’s Hotel) August 25th!
About this event
Jackie is a Canadian Singer-Songwriter from Debert, Nova Scotia bringing together the sounds of country, rock, and pop. This dynamic powerhouse singer performs throughout the Atlantic Provinces as a one-woman show and with a band. Jackie is influenced by Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Patty Loveless, Bonnie Tyler, Pat Benatar and Canadian’s Anne Murray and Shania Twain.
Jackie became inspired at the age of 12 from watching the movie, “Coal Miner’s Daughter”. This movie had a huge influence on Jackie’s music career at such an early age where Loretta Lynn became her idol and Jackie taught herself how to play guitar and began writing music.
Throughout Jackie’s mid 20s, she began performing solo, singing hit songs by the Queens of Country. Jackie then fronted the band Nighthawk, adding 50s and 60s music to her show while she performed traditional country music. Jackie later fronted bands such as Sierra; Sweet Revenge; Eldorado, and has shared the stage with Rawlins Cross, Cindy Church, Doris Mason, and the Kilted Chef. Jackie has also performed on CTV’s Christmas Daddies, Breakfast Television, The Downeaster Jamboree Show, and local cable shows.
During the two-year pandemic, Jackie released her first song that she recorded as an online tribute to the Province of Nova Scotia shortly after the April 18th–19th, 2020 Colchester County tragedies. “I’ll Be Right Home To You” received radio airplay and was written by Bob Robichaud. This song was going to be featured in a March 2020 showcase in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA, which was cancelled due to the pandemic.
In 2021, Jackie performed at Atlantic Canada’s First Ever Historic Tour for the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association game that was held in Nova Scotia at Truro’s Rath Eastlink Civic Centre. Jackie sang the bilingual version of our Canadian National Anthem at the Opening Ceremonies and performed her one woman show for three days.
Jackie is now working on recording her debut EP The Phoenix and is continuing to focus on writing and releasing new singles to showcase her dynamic range.
Seating begins at 6:00pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show. We recommend reserving before 6:30pm if you would like dinner.)
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.
Gahan Beacon Blonde Ale presents Dennis Ellsworth LIVE August 26th at Penzie’s Bistro (Shaw’s Hotel)!
About this event
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 6:00pm (Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time slot for dinner before the show. We recommend reserving before 6:30pm if you would like dinner.)
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.
Regardless if they are wired for full sound or completely unplugged, JJ ROOTS captivates & excites with soul-lifting vocals and powerful melodic riffs within their highly impactful Contemporary Roots/Folk vibe.
Join JJ ROOTS as they make their way across the Maritimes in 2023 to familiar haunts and fresh new trails while delighting & surprising audiences along with an impactful show that’s filled with beautiful melodies and memorable moments that has everyone feeling a sense of “EUPHORIA”!
Doors open at 6pm
Show runs from 8-10pm
Please call 902-672-2022 to reserve a time for dinner before the show as the kitchen gets busy on show nights (We recommend between 6-6:30pm). If you wish to join another table that has tickets please let us know in advance.
Drinks and food served directly to your table. Your table will be assigned at the door.
This is a listening room event. Please remain quiet during performances. There is usually a brief intermission halfway through.
To reserve a hotel room or cottage call 902-672-2022.