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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.
August 12, 2026 Phish / Ticket Stories

081298 Phish, Vernon, NY

On August 12th, 1998 I found myself in Vernon Downs, a harness racing track in New York that was hosting Phish on a fine summer evening…

August 11, 2026 The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

081198 The Tragically Hip, Boston, MA

The bar was full of Canadians who were ecstatic to be seeing The Hip in such an intimate venue…

August 10, 2026 Morrissey / Ticket Stories

081006 Morrissey, Oslo, Norway

I had never heard Morrissey before…

August 9, 2026 Band of Horses / Bob Weir / Kronos Quartet / Paul McCartney / The National / Ticket Stories

080913 Sir Paul McCartney/Bob Weir/Kronos Quartet/The National/Band of Horses, San Francisco, CA

Outside Lands Festival is a three-day multi-stage event held every summer in Golden Gate Park, the largest urban park in America…

August 8, 2026 Ticket Stories / Phish

080898 Phish, Columbia, MD

August 8th, 1998 was the first night of a little Phish run I did with my good friend Jason…

August 7, 2026 Cirque du Soleil / Ticket Stories

080719 Cirque du Soleil: Alegría In a New Light, Gatineau, QC

This was yet another highly professional ultra-creative romp through the mystical world that Cirque reliably creates…

August 6, 2026 Bela Fleck / Ticket Stories / Toumani Diabaté

080609 Bela Fleck & Toumani Diabaté, Montreal, QC

On August 6th, 2009 I drove to Montreal to see one of the greatest musicians in the world. And Bela Fleck…

August 5, 2026 Modest Mouse / Ticket Stories

080504 Modest Mouse, Ottawa, ON

Years ago a friend exposed me to an album by an act called Ugly Casanova…

August 4, 2026 Ball & Chain / Blue Skies Music Festival / Kobotown / Magoo / Mr. Something Something / Old Man Luedecke / Ticket Stories

080407 Blue Skies Music Festival, Clarendon, ON

The weekend of August 3rd-5th, 2007 was the first time I took m’lady to my favourite little festival-in-the-woods…

August 3, 2026 Alex Houghton / Blue Skies Music Festival / Fat Man Waving / Georgette Fry / Roddy Elias / Stephen Fearing / Tamarack / Ticket Stories

080396 Blue Skies Music Festival, Clarendon, ON

Oh, the campfire jams…

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