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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.
June 28, 2022 Medeski Martin & Wood / Ticket Stories

062810 Medeski Martin & Wood, Ottawa, ON

Can it be that June 28th, 2010 was the last time I saw Medeski, Martin & Wood…

June 26, 2022 10 Years of The Triplets of Belleville / Aretha Franklin / The Doobie Brothers / Ticket Stories

062613 The Doobie Brothers/10 Years of The Triplets of Belleville, Ottawa, ON

Aretha Franklin was forced to cancel her Ottawa jazz festival performance just three weeks before the show.  And can you believe that the festival actually managed to book a replacement…

June 25, 2022 Salif Keita / Ticket Stories

062508 Salif Keita, Ottawa, ON

A scientific study recently proved that it’s lucky to be superstitious, if you can believe that…

June 24, 2022 Huey Lewis and the News / Lucas Haneman / Mike Essoudry / The Sun Crescent Barbeque Stompers / Ticket Stories

062415 Huey Lewis and the News/The Sun Crescent Barbeque Stompers, Ottawa, ON

One really great element of Ottawa’s annual jazz festival that I often overlook in these missives are the free lunchtime concerts that happen daily in (or around) Confederation Park…

June 23, 2022 Robert Plant / Ticket Stories

062311 Robert Plant, Ottawa, ON

Of course Robert Plant will always commandeer a prominent chapter in the history of popular music as the lead vocalist for Led Zeppelin, and with very good reason…

June 22, 2022 Bill Evans / Ticket Stories

062207 Bill Evans, Ottawa, ON

On June 22nd, 2007 I sauntered down to the Ottawa jazz festival main stage in lovely Confederation Park to watch a headlining set by the well-known jazzer Bill Evans.  You know, the guy who played with Miles Davis…

June 21, 2022 Colin James / The Bad Plus / Ticket Stories

062114 The Bad Plus/Colin James, Ottawa, ON

This was simultaneously the most and least challenging concert I had seen The Bad Plus play…

June 20, 2022 Dr. John / Ticket Stories

062013 Dr. John, Ottawa, ON

What better way to kick off the Ottawa jazzfest than an opening night set from Mr. New Orleans himself…

June 19, 2022 Bill Kreutzmann / Bob Dylan / Bob Weir / Grateful Dead / Jerry Garcia / Mickey Hart / Phil Lesh / Ticket Stories

061995 Grateful Dead/Bob Dylan, East Rutherford, NJ

This would prove to be my last Grateful Dead concert…

June 18, 2022 Bill Kreutzmann / Bob Weir / Grateful Dead / Jerry Garcia / Mickey Hart / Phil Lesh / Sting / Ticket Stories

061893 Grateful Dead/Sting, Chicago, IL

June 18th, 1993 was the last night of my first first-ever Grateful Dead mini-tour…

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