ArtSpring Presents: Bob Bossin - Songs & Stories of Davy the Punk

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Saturday, February 28th, 2015
7:30 PM

Gabriola Island’s Bob Bossin is probably BC’s best known folk singer from way back. He brings us an evening of music, storytelling and theatre about his father and about the era in which he lived. Here’s how Bob tells it:

“It’s hard to believe, but I have wanted to write Davy the Punk for nearly 50 years. My father, as I knew him in the 1950s, was a quiet, conservative man who booked acts into night clubs around Ontario. But before that, in the 1930s and 40s, he had been “Davy the Punk,” his nom de guerre in the gambling underworld. Sufficeth to say, Davy was not a man who kept a diary; “Bobby, what you don’t say can’t be held against you,” he warned me. But the Attorney General of Ontario and the cops, who doggedly pursued my father from the late 1930s on, wrote volumes about him. Bad for him, good for me.”

Proudly supported by Victoria Olchowecki