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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.
January 10, 2026 Circles Around the Sun / Ivan Neville / Jamcruise / Ticket Stories

011020 Jamcruise IV

Somehow it took until day four of Jamcruise for me to find the inevitable omelet station among the ship’s large and varied 24-hour buffet…

January 9, 2026 Charlie Hunter / Eric Krasno / Ghost Light / Ghost-Note / Grateful Shred / Jamcruise / Karl Denson / Keller Williams / Lotus / Robert Walter / Ticket Stories

010920 Jamcruise III

January 9th, 2020 was Day III of that most legendary floating music festival: Jamcruise. I awoke at 9am and, figuring I had enough sleep under my belt…

January 8, 2026 Charlie Hunter / Garage A Trois / Grateful Grass / Jamcruise / Keller Williams / Pigeons Playing Ping Pong / Stanton Moore / Ticket Stories

010820 Jamcruise II

On January 8th, 2020 was day two of Jamcruise and I had been completely, utterly spent when I crawled into my bunk a mere 4.5 hours earlier…

January 7, 2026 Andy Coe / George Porter Jr. / Jamcruise / Lennon Claypool Delirium / Les Claypool / Robert Walter / Stanton Moore / Steve Kimock / Ticket Stories / Turkuaz

010720 Jamcruise I

By the time 2019 rolled around Jamcruise had been going on for seventeen years…

January 6, 2026 Bob Wiseman / Ticket Stories / Velcro Cloud

010696 Bob Wiseman/Velcro Cloud, Ottawa, ON

When I saw Bob Wiseman at The Pit in the summer of ’95 I swooned to every soft, poignant song the acidic balladeer threw our way. Unfortunately my two drunk friends stood by the bar yakking loudly all night…

January 5, 2026 Travel Logs

Perulog VII: Jesus of Nazca

Flying over the Nazca lines was much like leafing through a live, actual-size issue of National Geographic magazine… 

January 4, 2026 Moe Koffman / Ticket Stories

010497 Moe Koffman, Ottawa, ON

I’m not sure what Generations X, Y, Z is (or was), but as long as they were serving up cool, interesting live shows at bargain-basement prices I had no need to ask questions…

January 3, 2026 Frank Zappa / The Dangerous Kitchen / Ticket Stories

010397 The Dangerous Kitchen, Ottawa, ON

Rather than note-for-note mimicry, a group of Quebecois classical musicians presented intricate neo-classical modern interpretations of classic Zappa tunes and it was awesome…

January 2, 2026 sports / Ticket Stories

010209 World Junior Hockey: Slovakia vs Team USA, Ottawa, ON

On January 2nd, 2009 I rang in the new year with my second of two World Junior hockey games…

January 1, 2026 Phish / Ticket Stories

010111 Phish, New York, NY

Who wants to go to a raging rock concert the night after the biggest drinking holiday of the year…

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