Tales From a Misspent Adulthood
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012111 67’s vs Spirit, Ottawa, ON
On January 21st, 2011 I went to see the Ottawa 67’s play hockey against the Saginaw Spirit at the Civic Centre…
012019 Tabasco Factory Tour and Museum/Jungle Gardens, Avery Island, LA
On January 20th, 2019 I had the pleasure of visiting Avery Island, home to the factory that makes the world famous Tabasco sauces…
China/Hong Kong/Macau: Autumn, 2017
A crazy seat sale is all it took to get me and m’lady to China (and Hong Kong and Macau) for the first time.
- 4 Way Street
- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- Air Supply
- Al Di Meola
- Allen Toussaint
- Alpha Yaya Diallo
- Amadou & Miriam
- Anders Osborne
- Andrew Vincent and the Pirates
- Andy Coe
- Andy McKee
- Ane Brun
- Angela Hewitt
- Ani DiFranco
- Anoushka Shankar
- Arrogant Worms
- Barack Obama
- Barenaked Ladies
- Be In The Band Showcase
- Beastie Boys
- Beau Dixon
- Bela Fleck
- Ben Folds
- Bert Jansch
- Big Sugar
- Bill Frisell
- Bill Kreutzmann
- Black Sabbath
- Blue Skies Music Festival
- Bluegrassy High
- Blues Traveller
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Loblaw
- Bob Schneider
- Bob Snider
- Bob Wiseman
- Bon Iver
- Booker T and the MG's
- Boxcar Boys
- Brian Blade
- Brighton Rock
- Bruce Cockburn
- Bruce Springsteen
- Bryan Adams
- Built To Spill
- Bullmoose
- Burton Cummings
- By Divine Right
- Catherine MacLellan
- Chaka Khan
- Chalk Circle
- Charlie Hunter
- Cheap Trick
- Chick Corea
- Chris Botti
- Chris Robinson
- Chuck Leavell
- Circles Around the Sun
- Cirque du Soleil
- Come Together Music Festival
- Comfort Station
- Corb Lund
- CR Avery
- Crown Lands
- Cyril Neville
- D Rangers
- dance
- Dave Bidini Band
- Dave Brubeck
- Dave Lauzon
- Dave-O
- David Byrne
- David Lindley
- David Wilcox
- Dead Feat
- Dead Weather
- Deep Purple
- Deer Tick
- Delhi 2 Dublin
- Detroit Women
- DJ Logic
- Don Ross
- Dr. John
- Drive-By Truckers
- Drumhand
- Drums & Tuba
- Dumpstaphunk
- Eccodek
- Ed Bickert
- Eddie Money
- Elvis Costello
- Elvis Perkins In Dearland
- Emily Haines
- Eric Clapton
- Eric Krasno
- Faith No More
- Fear & Loathing
- Fear of Flying
- Feist
- Finest Kind
- Fishbone
- FM
- Foo Fighters
- Frankie Ford
- Fred Eaglesmith
- Freeway Band
- G. Love
- Galactic
- galleries
- Garage A Trois
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Genesis
- George Porter Jr.
- George Shearing
- George Thorogood
- Georgette Fry
- Ghost Light
- Ghost-Note
- Goddo
- Gogol Bordello
- Gowan
- Grand Analog
- Grateful Dead
- Grateful Grass
- Grateful Shred
- Green Day
- Guh
- Guns N' Roses
- Hal Willner
- Harry Manx
- Hawksley Workman
- Hellacopters
- Holly Bowling
- Honeymoon Suite
- Hux
- Ian Anderson
- IMAX
- Inglewood Jack
- Irma Thomas
- Ivan Neville
- Jack White
- Jaga Jazzist
- Jake Shimabukuro
- Jamcruise
- James Brown
- Jamie Cullum
- Jamie Lidell
- Jane Radmore
- Jane Siberry
- Jason Isbell
- Jerry Granelli
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jethro Tull
- Jim McNally
- Jimmie Vaughan
- Jimmy Buffett
- Jimmy Page
- Jimmy Rankin
- Joel Plaskett
- John Cougar Mellencamp
- John Fogerty
- John Hammond
- John McLaughlin
- John Prine
- John Scofield
- Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
- Jory Nash
- Jr. Mack
- Karl Denson
- Kathleen Madigan
- Keller Williams
- Kevin Breit
- Kim Mitchell
- Kool & the Gang
- Kurt Vile and the Violaters
- Kymani Marley
- L.A. Guns
- Larkin Poe
- Lennon Claypool Delirium
- Leon Bridges
- Leon Redbone
- Les Claypool's Bastard Jazz
- Lettuce
- Lewis Black
- Lindsay Buckingham
- Live Magnetic Air
- Los Lobos
- Lotus
- Lou Reed
- Lucinda Williams
- Lyle Lovett
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Maceo Parker
- Marcus King
- Marianne Dissard
- Mark Knopfler
- Martin Short
- Martina Sorbara
- Mary J. Blige
- Matthew Sweet
- Mavis Staples
- Max Webster
- MAZ
- McLean & McLean
- Meat Loaf
- Medeski Martin & Wood
- Medusas Raft
- Metallica
- Metalwood
- Michael Franti
- Mickey Hart
- Midnight North
- Mike Gordon
- Mike Milligan
- Milligan-Eagles Project
- Moe Koffman
- moe.
- Monkeyjunk
- Mother Mother
- museums
- Must Stash Hat
- Nathaniel Rateliff
- National Arts Centre Orchestra
- Nazareth
- Neil Young
- nero
- new poetics
- Oliver Jones
- Oliver Schroer
- Once And Future Band
- Orchestra Baobab
- Orphan
- Oscar Peterson
- Ottawa Symphony Orchestra
- Oysterhead
- Paco de Lucia
- Page and Plant
- Patti Smith
- Paul McCartney
- Paul Simon
- Pearl Jam
- Pegi Young
- Peter Gabriel
- Phil Lesh
- Philip Glass Ensemble
- Phish
- Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
- Pink Mountaintops
- Preservation Hall Band
- Prince
- Procol Harum
- Prosetry
- Public Relations
- Queensrÿche
- Radiohead
- Railroad Earth
- Rainy Day Prophets
- Ravi Shankar
- Real Gone Daddies
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Red Rider
- Robbie Krieger
- Robert Glasper Experiment
- Robert Plant
- Robert Randolph
- Robert Walter
- Roman Grey
- Roosevelt Collier
- Rush
- Rusted Root
- Ryan Bingham
- Salif Keita
- Samantha Fish
- Sean Chambers
- Sean McCann
- Sisters Euclid
- Skid Row
- Sleepy Sun
- Solomon Burke
- Soulive
- Soundgarden
- Spearhead
- sports
- Spruce
- St. Vincent
- Stanton Moore
- Stephen Colbert
- Stephen Fearing
- Stephen Franke & Noises from the Toolshed
- Steve Kimock
- Steve Martin
- Steve Miller
- Stevie Wonder
- Still on the Hill
- Sting
- Stuart McLean
- Sweating Like Nixon
- Tanya Tagaq
- Tarig Abubakar and the AfroNubians
- The Allman Brothers Band
- The Assad Brothers
- The Band From Utopia
- The Blind Boys of Alabama
- The Blushing Brides
- The Brazilian Girls
- The Creaking Tree String Quartet
- The Dead
- The Flaming Sideburns
- The Flaps
- The Foals
- The Grant Buffet Experience
- The Headpins
- The Hold Steady
- The John Henrys
- The Kids in the Hall
- The Musical Box
- The Police
- The Rheostatics
- The Rolling Stones
- The Sadies
- The Slip
- The Soundtrack of Our Lives
- The Spoons
- The Tragically Hip
- The Tummies
- The Vinyl Cafe
- The Wallflowers
- The Waltons
- The White Stripes
- The Wisconsin Johnsins
- theatre
- Ticket Stories
- Tiempo Libre
- Timber Timbre
- Todd Snider
- Tom Cochrane
- Tool
- Toronto
- Tortoise
- Toumani Diabaté
- tours
- Travel Logs
- Trey Anastasio Band
- Tricky
- Triumph
- Trombone Shorty
- Trout Fishing in America
- Turkuaz
- Twiddle
- U2
- uncategorized
- Upper York Mandolin Quartet
- Van Halen
- Veda Hille
- Velcro Cloud
- Videos
- Vieux Farke Touré
- War
- Warren Haynes
- Wayne Eagles
- Ween
- Weeping Tile
- What The Thunder Said
- Widespread Panic
- Wilco
- Willie Nelson
- Wynton Marsalis
- Xavier Rudd
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