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"From Gabriola, Bob Bossin, From England, Daniel Cainer"
Thursday, October 22, 2026 7:30 PM - Friday, October 23, 2026 7:30 PM (PDT)
Description

Daniel Cainer, the multi-award-winning, internationally acclaimed, British songwriter and musical storyteller is linking up with Gabriola BC’s legendary “old folksinger”, Bob Bossin for performances around the Salish Sea between October 18 and 25. (See list below.)
Daniel Cainer, perennial “Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe”, comes to BC from a seventh run at New York’s prestigious Soho Playhouse. American women’s-music icon, Christine Lavin calls Cainer “the best songwriter in the English-speaking world.” Says the L.A. Times, “Cainer makes you laugh, brings you to tears, and warms your heart.”
Bob Bossin founded the legendary Canadian folk group Stringband. He authored the prize-winning book Davy the Punk; he performed the musical medicine show, Bossin's Home Remedy for Nuclear War and recorded such classic Canadian folk songs as The Maple Leaf Dog, Tugboats, Dief will Be the Chief Again, and Show Us the Length.
Now 80, Bossin comes out of retirement to join Cainer. “I couldn’t resist the chance to share a stage with one of my idols,” he says.
Hear Cainer’s and Bossin’s songs and find out more about their Salish Sea tour at www.bossin-cainer.com
$28 cash at Nature's Spirit Market, or on line by e-transfer to bob@bossin.com
465 South Road
Gabriola, BC V0R 1X0 Canada
Agricultural Hall
Thursday October 22 and Friday October 23, doors at 7:00, downbeat 7:30.
