CANADA's  FESTIVAL  OF  MUSICAL  COMEDY IS  BACK  AND  BETTER  THAN  EVER!

Canada's largest festival of musical comedy is coming to Comedy Bar! We've got this country's best musical improv, sketch, stand up and more for your viewing and listening pleasure. This year, we're thrilled to partner with Thornbury Village Craft Cider and Beer to make all the fun happen!

Snag your tickets to one or more of our incredible shows below! All tickets are $15 in Advance, $18 at Door or $10 for students/ arts workers at the door unless otherwise stated. Comedy never sounded so sweet!

FRIDAY,  JUNE  14

POC Musical Improv Jam
Comedy Bar Cabaret
Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Velvet Duke, some of Toronto's funniest musical improvisers come together for a musical mashup for the ages.

Featuring: Jamillah Ross, Xe Gi, Shaun Hatton, Jade Niles Craig, Shaun Hatton and Antony Hall!

Hosted by Velvet Duke!
Catch 23
Mainstage
8:00pm - 10pm

Catch23 is Toronto's deadliest improv pit fight. Watch teams from all over Toronto (and sometimes beyond) battle it out against house players, "expert" judges and you, the audience, for improv domination. Really, it's quite civil. Other than the fact that the teams totally want to kill one another, Catch23 works hard to present you with some of the finest improv comedy this city (and world) has to offer. You will probably like it. Returning champions are invited back the following week to defend their title. Sometimes there are even theme shows! And special guests from afar! And surprises!

Featuring: Chelsea Larkin & Sam Roulston VS Mark Little & Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll VS Kyah Green & Jillian Welsh!

Hosted by Jason Agnew!
Weird Al Karaoke
Comedy Bar Cabaret
Time: 10:00pm - 11:30pm

WEIRD AL KARAOKE is a monthly song parody show where comedians sing original parody songs they have written LIVE to a backing track.

Featuring: Aaron Peever, Chelsea Larkin, Susannah Kiernan, Darren Springer, Erica Gellert, Gregory Cochrane, Laura Leibow and Vanessa Purdy!

Hosted by Weird Glenn, Brendan Halloran and Scott Yamamura!

$12 online or $15 at the door
Rapp Battlez
Mainstage
Time: 11:00pm - 12:30am

Rapp Battlez is live show, twitter account, youtube page and website. Check em out.

Comedians going head to head with hilarious rhymes.

Featuring: Gillian Bartolucci , Antony Hall, Jon Blair, Miguel Rivas, Cassie Cao, Roger Bainbridge, Thomas Rivas, Xe Gi, Luba Magnus, Alan Shane Lewis, Hanif Jetha, Sima Sepehri, Jade Niles Craig, Mat Mailandt, Laura Leibow, Jordan Foisy!

Hosted by Freddie and Miguel Rivas!

Saturday,  June  15

Improv Karaoke
Mainstage
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Like regular Karaoke except that it's very different!

Toronto's top comedians come equipped with their fave song lyrics and completely improvise a brand new version of that sweet tune with the magical, talented, well-dressed Improv Karaoke band! OR they grab a suggestion from the audience and make up a song completely on the spot!

Featuring: Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Mat Mailandt,Clare McConnell, Jillian Welsh, Leigh Cameron, Chris Wilson and Linnea Currie-Roberts!

Band: Justin Han Jack Wiktor Geoffry Allan Bruce and band leader/genius Jordan Armstrong!
Queer and Present Danger Musical Cabaret - Personal Demon Hunter
Comedy Bar Cabaret
8:30pm - 10pm

In partnership with Queer and Present Danger, Fresh Notes is thrilled to present Personal Demon Hunter written and performed by Velvet Duke!

Velvet Duke is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker. He is a gifted communicator skilled at exorcising your personal demons through his patented five step PATH!©

Today his demons are getting their exercise. He will use every tool in his arsenal to vanquish them for good, including turning to you, his fans.
Fierce, Female, Funny
Mainstage
Time: 9:30pm - 11:00pm

Join us for a hilarious night of all female all funny musical comedy featuring the critically acclaimed Tita Collective, Herbeaver and She Bongs!

Featuring: Katie Preston, Heather Gallant, Mallory Morgan, Andrea Marston, Alex Best, Ann Paula Bautista, Belinda Corpuz, Isabel Kanaan, Alia Rasul and Maricris Rivera!

Hosted by Chelsea Larkin!
Alone in this Together
Comedy Bar Cabaret
Time: 10:00pm - 11:30pm

Toronto's funniest solo musical acts come together for a night of jokes are characters of the musical persuasion. Don't miss Laura Cilevitz, Anesti Danelis, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Ana-Marija Stojic, Clare McConnell and Jon Blair!

Hosted by Shannon Lahaie!
A NOTORIOUS Finale
Mainstage
Time: 11:00pm - 12:30am

This is it! The Fresh Notes Festival Finale featuring hip hop comedy legends NOTORIOUS and stars of the new CBC Gem web series Ming's Dynasty premiering June 22! Come for the Ming's teaser video and stay for the funniest rap you've heard all year. Or at least all week!

Featuring: Antony Hall, Calwyn Shurgold, Mat Mailandt, Ryan Sheedy, Nicole Passmore, Ajahnis Charley and Carley Thorne!