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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.
April 28, 2023 sports / Ticket Stories

042807 WWF CN Tower Climb, Toronto, ON

Even at the ungodly half-hour of 6:30am the Trade & Convention Centre at the base of the tower was abuzz with unimaginable activity…

April 26, 2023 Seun Kuit & Egypt 80 / Ticket Stories

071008 Suen Kuti and Egypt 80, Ottawa, ON

Some of my ticket memories read like nothing more than the sordid confessions of a chronic Bluesfest set-jumper…

April 22, 2023 Autographs & Memorabilia

Autographs & Memorabilia

Picks, autographs, etcetera…

April 21, 2023 Kim Mitchell / Still Winter Hills / Ticket Stories

042122 Kim Mitchell/Still Winter Hills, Ottawa, ON

Kim Mitchell and his three sidemen came out to a standing ovation…

April 20, 2023 Blackie and the Rodeo Kings / Colin Linden / Death from Above 1979 / Ganga Girl / Jane's Addiction / Stephen Fearing / Ticket Stories

071611 Jane’s Addiction/Blackie and the Rodeo Kings/Death from Above 1979/Ganga Girl, Ottawa, ON

July 16th was the penultimate day of the 2011 Ottawa Bluesfest and it was a hot one, both literally and figuratively…

April 18, 2023 Bob Weir / Steve Kimock / The National / Ticket Stories

041817 Bob Weir & the Campfire Band, New Orleans, LA

Everyone knows that New Orleans is an amazing city…

April 16, 2023 Chicago Blues Reunion / Jeff Tweedy / Junior Brown / Roseanne Cash / Ticket Stories / Wilco

071506 Junior Brown/Wilco/Roseanne Cash/Chicago Blue Reunion, Ottawa, ON

Wilco fans fall firmly in the “rabid” category…

April 15, 2023 Be In The Band Showcase / BITB Instructors Band / Joe Nemeth / Ticket Stories

071518 Joe Nemeth/Be In The Band Showcase/BITB Instructors Band, Ottawa, ON

July 15th, 2018 was the final day of what had proved to be a really fun installation of the Ottawa Bluesfest…

April 12, 2023 Barenaked Ladies / The Sadies / Ticket Stories / Ween

091716 Ween/Barenaked Ladies/The Sadies, Toronto, ON

This was my first time staying in an air bnb and though it was convenient and relatively inexpensive I definitely thought it was weird…

April 11, 2023 BB King / Be In The Band Showcase / Los Lobos / Monkeyjunk / Ticket Stories / Tony D

071413 BB King/Monkeyjunk/Los Lobos/Be In The Band Showcase, Ottawa, ON

This was my only time seeing the master of the single-note solo, the great BB King…

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