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Author: Todd Snelgrove

I've been having a lot of fun these past fifty-odd years. I've busked and bicycled through more places I can count, taught music and caught dengue fever, managed a band that toured all over North America and worked with Canada's National Orchestra for two decades. I've traveled countless miles to see a thousand concerts, played hundreds of gigs, won in Vegas and lost in Estonia, worked as a concert promoter, university instructor, janitor, and entertainment writer, seen the Grateful Dead and hiked the Dogon Valley, ran the stairs of the CN Tower and pedalled across Scandinavia once and Newfoundland twice. I've visited the graves of Alexander the Great and the great Robert Johnson, drunk excessively with some of the best and worst people you can imagine, and I've slept in some very, very weird places. Several years ago I started writing some of it down, and much of it is collected here for your perusal.
February 8, 2026 By Divine Right / The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

020899 The Tragically Hip/By Divine Right, Ottawa, ON

The Hip were one of those bands that would switch up their setlist every night…

February 7, 2026 Drive-By Truckers / Ticket Stories

020717 Drive-By Truckers, Montreal, QC

On February 7th, 2017 m’lady and I drove to Montreal to see the Drive-By Truckers. Before the show we had a drink in our hotel lobby bar and decided to walk to the show. It was fairly mild for a February night and the walk was relatively short and quite pleasant…

February 6, 2026 comedy / Liam Small / Mike Lynch / Paul Warford / Ticket Stories

020625 Mike Lynch/Liam Small/Paul Warford, Harbour Grace, NL

Mike Lynch only had two reactions from the audience: laughs and big laughs… 

February 5, 2026 Ticket Stories / museums

020511 Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, TN

This was in the early stretch of my self-researched and personally curated Rock & Roll Field Trip From Hell…

February 4, 2026 Connie Mims Pinkerton / Ticket Stories

020411 The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, TN

On February 4th, 2011 m’lady and I were just starting to dig into our America-crossing musical treasure hunt…

February 3, 2026 museums / Ticket Stories

020311 The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH

The place is just teeming with astounding bits of music history…

February 2, 2026 The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

020207 The Tragically Hip, Ottawa, ON

February 2nd, 2007 was the second time I saw The Hip after they released World Container…

February 1, 2026 Big Space / High & Lonesome / Ticket Stories

020125 Big Space/High & Lonesome, St. John’s, NL

Big Space are just so damn good that I simply cannot help being enthralled…

January 29, 2026 Bob Wiseman / Catherine MacLellan / Ticket Stories

012908 Bob Wiseman/Catherine MacLellan, Ottawa, ON

On January 29th, 2008 I walked down to Sparks Street for a taping of Fuse, a now-defunct Saturday afternoon radio show…

January 28, 2026 Cuong Vu / John Geggie / Kevin Breit / Ticket Stories

012806 John Geggie, Cuong Vu, and Kevin Breit, Ottawa, ON

When I was in my first year of university one of my profs arranged a jazz trio to play for one of our classes. I only remember one member of the trio – John Geggie – but I remember his performance that afternoon in my mind’s eye as vividly as if it were yesterday…

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