Bozzini's Restaurant

Shirley Gnome
2026-03-20 21:15 - 23:00 (America/Vancouver) | British Columbia
Shirley Gnome
Appearing w her band Noah Walker & Jodi Ponto Guitar & drums(Kitty & the Rooster) & Hank Pine on Bass
Friday March 20 Doors 8:00 Show 9:15
Tickets $ 29.50 at Bozzini’s or call 604 792 0744 to reserve.
Shirley Gnome is a Juno-nominated comedian, songwriter, and vocalist known for her irreverent fusion of musical talent and razor-sharp wit. Splitting her time between Vancouver, BC, and Montreal, QC, Gnome has carved out a unique niche in the world of musical comedy, delivering biting social commentary through genre-spanning original songs that are as thought-provoking as they are hilarious.
With a voice that’s equal parts soulful and commanding, Gnome blends folk, rock, pop, and country into meticulously crafted songs that challenge taboos and celebrate vulnerability. Her lyrics – unapologetically honest and delightfully spicy – tackle everything from sexual politics and social norms to the absurdities of everyday life. The result is a cathartic experience that leaves audiences laughing, thinking, and humming her catchy tunes long after the show ends.
Gnome began her career in 2009 in Vancouver’s burlesque scene, performing as a variety act and emcee. In 2012, she gained widespread recognition after winning Patrick Maliha’s The People’s Champ of Comedy competition, earning a $20,000 CAD prize and launching her into the national and international spotlight. Since then, she has toured extensively across Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, earning five-star reviews and selling out shows along the way.
She has performed at major festivals including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs (Vancouver), the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and many others. Her work has been featured on CBC Radio’s The Debaters, and SiriusXM.
In 2021, her album Decoxification was nominated for a Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year, cementing her status as one of Canada’s leading voices in musical comedy. In 2024, she made her national television debut on CBC Gem as part of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival gala broadcasts.
To date, Gnome has released six studio albums and one EP. Her most recent release, Live, Bare and Natural (March 2025), is a live album accompanied by a filmed comedy special.. The project captures the raw power of her live performance – vulnerable, hilarious, and utterly unforgettable. Featuring two different backing bands alongside solo sets, it showcases the full range of her multigenre oeuvre, offering a compelling portrait of the originality and versatility that define her as a truly singular talent.
Beyond the stage, Gnome continues to expand her creative reach. She collaborated with physical comedy duo The Merkin Sisters to co-write their first digital album and has composed original music for theatrical productions by The Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret (Vancouver) and Larrikin Entertainment (Whitehorse). She is also dedicated to mentoring emerging artists, such as co-writing songs with theatre duo Scantily Glad (S.E. Grummet and Sam Kruger), which were featured in their Edinburgh Comedy Award–nominated show this year.
Whether she’s performing in an intimate cabaret or a major international festival, Shirley Gnome delivers a fearless and unforgettable show singing truth to power, one laugh at a time.
★★★★★
“Think Sarah McLachlan meets Ryan Reynolds, a true Canadian double threat.” –Edmonton Journal

★★★★
“Her songs are like nothing else you will hear…It is a glorious experience and, absolutely not to be missed’ -The Scotsman, Edinburgh

“a joyful rebellion against rigid femininity, constrictive sexuality and what it means to be a “lady.”” – She Does The City, Toronto

“hilarious… Gnome is a disarmingly likeable performer” –Chortle (UK)

“magnificent” –Dan Savage (US)

★★★★★
“simply brilliant… equipped with the voice of a goddess.” -Three Weeks, Edinburgh

★★★★★
“… one of the best musical comedians I’ve seen.’” – The Australia Times (Melbourne)

★★★★
“witty, well-crafted and honed to a comedic point. –GlamAdelaide

★★★★½
“Clever, honest and downright mischievous” –The Clothesline, Adelaide

★★★★
“The Queen troubadour of intelligent black-comic sex balladry” –The Edmonton Sun (Canada)

★★★★★
“a profound sense of hilarity… a standing ovation was just not enough.” –Onstage Ottawa

★★★★
“Gnome is frank, completely uninhibited, and a smart comedian.” –CBC (Canada)

★★★★
“a warm, chatty manner and razor-sharp wit” –Broadway Baby, Edinburgh Fringe

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ACCOLADES/AWARDS:

2025 – EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD NOMINATION (music cowriter for Creepy Boy’s SLUGS)
2024 – SOHO THEATRE NYC FRINGE ENCORE – Nominee
2024 – HOLDOVER SERIES – Edmonton Fringe
2024 – BEST ENGLISH COMEDY Nominee – Montreal Fringe
2024 – BEST CLOWN SHOW Nominee – Montreal Fringe
2021 – JUNO AWARDS – COMEDY ALBUM OF THE YEAR Nominee
2019 – 4X BEST VARIETY ACT Nominee – Canadian Comedy Awards (2014-2015, 2017-2019)
2019 – WINNER – Philadelphia Folk Festival – Favourite Artist Discovery
2018 – BEST COMEDY ALBUM Nominee – Canadian Comedy Awards
2017 – SHORTLISTED – Best Cabaret – Fringe World Festival (Perth, Australia) (Sell Out Show)
2017 – OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION – Toronto Fringe Festival – Now Toronto Magazine
2017 – OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE – Toronto Fringe Festival – Now Toronto Magazine
2016 – WINNER – Funniest Show – London Fringe Festival (Sell Out Show)
2016 – WINNER – Patrons’ Pick – Orlando Fringe Festival (Sell Out Show)
2016 & 2017 – BEST COMEDY Nominee – Fringe World Festival (Perth, Australia)
2015 – WINNER – Funniest Show – Frigid New York Theatre Festival
2012 – WINNER – Patrick Maliha’s The People Champ of Comedy Competition

Morgan Davis
2026-04-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Bozzini’s Restaurant (Upstairs), 4-45739 Hocking Ave, Chilliwack, British Columbia, V2P 6Z6, Canada
Morgan Davis
Thursday April 30
Doors 6:00 Show 7:30
Tickets $ 29.50 at Bozzini’s or call 604 792 0744 to reserve
Presented by ManoFest Concerts
An East Coast Blues legend returns…
Last show sold out. Don’t delay in grabbing you rix
For nearly 60 years Morgan Davis has been playing the blues, travelling across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. His performances draw from a lifelong study of the rich tradition of country blues, re-interpreting songs of the 1920s and 30s on electric instruments. His original compositions are infused with wit and a good dose of humour.

Originally from Detroit MI, Morgan Davis grew up listening to a rich variety of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and the emergence of the Motown sound. The music of Jimmy Reed, Ike and Tina Turner, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino was in the air, emanating from car radios and jukeboxes. In 1962 his family relocated to southern California, where Davis found the preponderance of surf music unappealing. He discovered Bob Dylan, whose music introduced him to Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and Blind Lemon Jefferson. The psychedelic era ushered in bands like Jimi Hendrix and Cream, he attended concerts by the Doors, Grateful Dead, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Buffalo Springfield, Mothers of Invention and the Electric Flag. Davis began to play guitar at 16 years of age.

Graduating from high school in 1965, Davis enrolled in Long Beach State College, where he became active in the campus anti-war movement as well as SDS. Being of draft age and refusing his 2-S student deferment, he made the choice to remove himself from the U.S. war machine and move to Canada. He settled in Toronto, which he happily found to be a city on the circuit of the great Chicago blues bands, and a rich musical education began by watching Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. Davis also had the opportunity to see and meet many great country blues players – John Hammond, Son House, Booker White, and Johnny Shines.

After a brief stint teaching junior high school, Davis began his musical career while residing at Rochdale College, Toronto’s high rise mecca for artists . Opportunities to jam with other players were frequent, and Davis happily immersed himself in music until he began to get the occaisional gig, and he soon found himself in a band called the Rhythm Rockets, which played a variety of vintage rock and roll, country and blues. He began touring, eventually forming his own blues band, the Knights of the Mystic Sea.
Over his five decade career Davis has opened the show for Willie Dixon, Albert King, John Hammond, John Lee Hooker and Albert Collins. He has jammed with Muddy Waters, James Cotton and Johnny Shines. He has backed up Sunnyland Slim, Snooky Pryor, Hubert Sumlin, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and Dr. John.

Davis has released two 45 RPM records, two LPs, and nine CDs. His songwriting talent received wide recognition when Colin James covered his searing ballad, “Why’d You Lie?”
For the past 20 years he has made his home in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. Davis performs solo, playing traditional and original blues on electric guitars and his three string cigar-box guitar. Still a road-addicted touring musicianer, Davis averaged 200 days a year on the road…..until the sudden intrusion of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic.

…he hopes to be playing the blues until he drops.

2018
one of the TOP CD’s of 2018
“DOWNBEAT”
2005
SONG WRITER OF THE YEAR
“Maple Blues Award”
2004
RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Painkiller “Maple Blues Award”
2004
SONG WRITER OF THE YEAR – SOCAN
“Maple Blues Award”
2000
ACOUSTIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR
“Toronto Blues Society”
1999
SOCAN SONG WRITER OF THE YEAR
“Maple Blues Award”
1995
BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR
“Jazz Report”

2004
BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Painkiller
“JUNO”
2004
MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
“Maple Blues Award”
2004
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Morgan Davis
w/ Alec Fraser
“Maple Blues Award”
1999
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Blues Medicine
“Maple Blues Award”
1996
BLUES WITH A FEELING AWARD
“Toronto Blues Society”
1994
BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR
“Jazz Report”

Ryan McMahon & Jeremy Fisher Double Bill!!! (2 shows)
2026-05-02 17:30 | Bozzini’s Restaurant (Upstairs), 4-45739 Hocking Ave, Chilliwack, British Columbia, V2P 6Z6, Canada
Ryan McMahon & Jeremy Fisher Double Bill
(Two great artists One Big Night)
Early Show Doors 4:00 Show 5:30 tix $ 37.95
Late Show Doors 8:00 Show 9:00 tix $ 39.95
Tickets on sale now at Bozzini’s or call 604 792 0744 to reserve
It’s been 12 Years since Jeremy Fisher has performed at Bozzini’s and he’s back…finally in what will be an amazing night of music when his friend and ours, Ryan McMahon joins him for a great night of music
Jeremy Fisher

Jeremy Fisher is a 4-time JUNO-nominated folk-pop singer-songwriter based in Ottawa. He has released 6 studio albums and his music has been featured on radio, in film (The Big Year, Our Idiot Brother), commercials (Volkswagen, American Airlines), and as main title TV themes (Disney, Global). Over the last 20 years Jeremy has toured the world and shared the stage with artists such as Alanis Morissette, Blue Rodeo and Indigo Girls. His upbeat music with singable lyrics and heartfelt stories have earned him a dedicated fan base.
He is a co-creator, songwriter and voice actor for the CBC animated series Jeremy and Jazzy, a show about how feelings become songs, songs become stories, and music, friendship, and collaboration create joy.

Ryan McMahon
Legendary Canadian TV/Radio personality Terry David Mulligan may have summed up Ryan best:“The complete package. Singer. Songwriter. Performer. Troublemaker. Passionate human being. For me… priceless.”

Engaging and honest, Ryan McMahon’s music is written from the heart and sung from the soul. It is as rock as folk can get before it starts to roll. A blend of folk, americana and rock following the lead of his peers Jason Isbell, Nathaniel Rateliff & Warren Zevon. The singer songwriter has enough wit and charm to get through any situation and his songwriting fits every emotion into his live performance.

Born on the coast of British Columbia in a small seaside hamlet on Vancouver Island, Ryan’s first experiences performing were for family members laughing at his reiterations of comedians he loved. As he expelled versions of Eddie Murphy and Billy Connolly, McMahon fed off the energy from his audiences at such a young age and continued to dive into the music influences of his parents, which included a mix of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, The Everly Brothers and BB King. He picked up a guitar in high school and became known for playing the Battle of the Bands and sneaking into the clubs in nearby cities as an under-aged performer.

After graduating, he moved across the pond into the Vancouver scene to join a group of musicians exploring the music and nightlife of the bigger arena. He spent a decade playing small clubs, hosting open mics, writing, and recording. The songwriting and recording became his outlet for understanding the human experience and his ability to connect to audiences grew with each story he told. During his time in Vancouver, he penned the album, Weeks Months Years, produced by Mike Rogerson at Bakerstreet in North Vancouver.
The muse of life brought him back to Vancouver Island in 2008 and as a solo artist, McMahon won a record three Vancouver Island Music Awards for Album of the Year, Male Artist of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year in 2012 for his album ALL GOOD STORIES. After touring in support of the album, he joined forces with Cory Woodward and Christopher Arruda to create Lion Bear Fox: a folk-rock trio that showcased and toured Canada, the U.S. and in Europe until 2019. McMahon’s contributions to the band resulted in some of their most well-known songs, like “Shine,” “Freedom” and “Going, Going, Gone.”

Over the years, Ryan has opened for many iconic bands and artists from Buffy Ste. Marie and Nickelback to Canadian country artists Chad Brownlee, Brett Kissel, Dallas Smith and Aaron Pritchett. His talent, persona and musicality opened many doors to the range of genres encompassed in his songs. In 2019, as he returned from Tonder Festival in Denmark, the opportunity to play with and meet Canadian Country Music singer Aaron Pritchett marked the embarking on a new chapter in music.
Pritchett took Ryan under his wing and lit a new fire under McMahon’s feet as the pandemic settled into the hearts of people around the world. After a few attempts at telling the story, Ryan wrote “One More Fire” as a calling card for how his passion for music has been reignited.

“Of course, songs and art are subjective things, but to me ‘One More Fire’ represents that yearning to obtain connectivity to the human race around me,” says Ryan. “That feeling in my belly that I had when it was the night before battle of the bands in high school; or that notion that tomorrow I’m going into a new city to meet that community and make ’em sing, laugh, cry or dance or all of it all at the same time.”

Ryan admits that after years of scratching, clawing, winning, losing, and going through a pandemic that put the brakes on the entertainment industry, the fire to create and perform remains burning in his heart — and won’t be extinguished anytime soon.

The Ranters (Rockland Moran)
2026-05-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Bozzini’s Restaurant (Upstairs), 4-45739 Hocking Ave, Chilliwack, British Columbia, V2P 6Z6, Canada
The Ranters
Wednesday May 6
Doors 6:00 Show 7:30
Tickets $ 28.75 Available at Bozzini’s or call 604 792 0744 to reserve
Join Rocky Moran, Gillian Wale, and Fred Webber on the upright bass
At the beginning of 2020, Gillian and Rockland were preparing for their annual trip south, with our band “The Ranters” through the states of Washington, Oregon, California, and this year Louisiana.
Then fell the ides of March, and with it the global pandemic.
All bets were off! Being locked down, like the rest of the world and music industry, they took advantage of the downtime to write and record nine songs of a ten song album.
Taking inventory of the world around them, they wanted to bring the current events to attention in our music, as did the songwriters during the 1960’s.
Rant on, Children
In these recordings, The Ranters review subject matter of localized racism, destruction of environment, and increasing homelessness. Throughout these songs, there lies a thread of healthy contempt for religious authority, as well as a touch of humor and optimism.
“The Ranters” hope that you enjoy this musical offering of contemporary roots/blues titled “Rant on, Children”.

Martin Harley
2026-05-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Bozzini’s Restaurant (Upstairs), 4-45739 Hocking Ave, Chilliwack, British Columbia, V2P 6Z6, Canada
Martin Harley
Thursday May 7 2026
Doors 6:00 Show 7:30
Tickets $ 32.50 on sale Sept 3 2025 at Bozzini’s or call 604 792 0744 to book by phone
***Last Show of the Season***
After 8 Long Years one of our favourites returns
Martin Harley is celebrated as “One of the UK’s finest contemporary roots musicians” (Guitarist Magazine) and a “slide guitar master” (Roots Magazine). Known for his spellbinding slide guitar and ability to blend Americana, Blues, and Folk, Harley has captivated audiences for three decades, recording albums in Texas, Nashville, and Wales.
His sold-out shows at venues like London’s Union Chapel and appearances at Glastonbury and the Royal Albert Hall highlight his dynamic stage presence. His music has featured on TV shows like The Vampire Diaries and Banshee and in live segments on PBS’s Music City Roots. Harley has collaborated with icons like Jerry Douglas and Grammy winner Derek Mixon, and his album Static in the Wires reached #2 on the iTunes Blues charts.
His latest release, Morning Sun, produced by Nigel Stonier, showcases his finest songwriting to date, with inventive contributions from Michael Blair, Mark Lewis, and Chris (CJ) Hillman. Harley’s heartfelt music continues to push boundaries in contemporary roots.

“No doubt that he is a slide guitar master. He is the business” – Roots Magazine
“Spellbinding” – The Guardian
“Quite simply a great live act” – Time Out London

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