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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 31, 2021 Ticket Stories

083101 Burning Man VI, Black Rock City, NV

One of the only things I knew about Burning Man before I arrived was that everyone attending was expected to “participate”…

August 30, 2021 Ticket Stories

083001 Burning Man V, Black Rock City, NV

By August 30th, 2001 I was five days into an epic week-plus-a-day at the world’s craziest gathering of wackiness, the Burning Man Festival…

August 29, 2021 Ticket Stories

082901 Burning Man IV, Black Rock City, NV

August 29th, 2001 was the fourth day of my one and only journey to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert…

August 28, 2021 Ticket Stories

082801 Burning Man III, Black Rock City, NV

The reason why I consistently refer to Burning Man as an art/life/wackiness festival is primarily because of the Camps…

August 27, 2021 Ticket Stories

082701 Burning Man II, Black Rock City, NV

On August 27th, 2001 I woke up at Burning Man for the first time…

August 25, 2021 Ticket Stories / tours

082520 Gatherall’s Puffin & Whale Tour, Bay Bulls, NL

In August of 2020 m’lady and I hosted my brother and his wife at our new old house in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. They suggested we join them on a puffin/whale tour so of course we jumped…

August 24, 2021 Jane Siberry / Ticket Stories / Trout Fishing in America

082403 Trout Fishing in America/Jane Siberry, Ottawa, ON

I’m not sure exactly what date I might have attended the 2003 Ottawa Folk Festival but a little research suggests it might have been August 24th, for it was on that day that Jane Siberry and Trout Fishing in America played…

August 23, 2021 Bill Frisell / Ticket Stories

082399 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON

On August 23rd, 1999 I saw the great Bill Frisell at Ottawa’s legendary Barrymore’s Music Hall.  This wouldn’t be the last concert I saw in the old decaying theatre but it was among them…

August 22, 2021 Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne / Ticket Stories

082213 Black Sabbath, Vancouver, BC

M’lady and I had been circuiting through the United States seeing a cornucopia of concerts (of course) and we had one more show left on our itinerary…

August 21, 2021 Guns N' Roses / Slash / Ticket Stories

082117 Guns N’ Roses, Ottawa, ON

On August 21st, 2017, as my regular morning bike ride took me past Lansdowne Park it occurred to me I had only seen Guns N’ Roses once, and that had been twenty-five years before. So when I arrived home and saw that ticket prices had dropped to just $50 for the cheap seats (+40% in fees) I bit…

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