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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.
October 14, 2025 Stephen Franke & Noises from the Toolshed / The Slip / Ticket Stories

101404 The Slip/Stephen Franke & Noises from the Toolshed, Toronto, ON

October 14th, 2004 was the first night of a a three-day run seeing The Slip…

October 13, 2025 Prosetry

The Puffins of Elliston

The Atlantic puffin can only be seen in a handful of places on Earth, and Elliston, Newfoundland is one of those places…

October 12, 2025 Hawksley Workman / Martina Sorbara / Ticket Stories

101201 Hawksley Workman/Martina Sorbara, Ottawa, ON

For a brief time I became casually smitten with Hawksley Workman, so seeing him at my one-time favourite local venue on October 11th, 2001 was a slam dunk…

October 11, 2025 Anoushka Shankar / Ravi Shankar / Ticket Stories

101105 Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, Ottawa, ON

It’s really too bad that the great Ravi Shankar is no longer walking this Earth, but every time I hear a sitar I think of him so I suppose in that sense he’s still here.  Or there.  Or wherever…

October 10, 2025 Kevin Breit / Paul McCartney / Sisters Euclid / Ticket Stories

101005 Sir Paul McCartney/Sisters Euclid, Toronto, ON

On October 10th, 2005 I drove to Toronto with some friends to see Sir Paul McCartney for the first time…

October 9, 2025 Kagumba Andrew / Mi'gmafrica / Sadio Sissokho / Ticket Stories

100921 Mi’gmafrica/Kagumba Andrew/Sadio Sissokho, St. John’s, NL

I was surprised that I hadn’t heard of something so very much up my alley as an African roots festival…

October 8, 2025 Ed Bickert / Ticket Stories

100898 Ed Bickert, Ottawa, ON

This Ed Bickert concert on October 8th, 1998 might mark the only time I saw a show at After 8, a beautiful bar directly across the street from the front doors of Parliament’s Centre Block…

October 7, 2025 CR Avery / Ticket Stories

100711 CR Avery, Ottawa, ON

On October 7th, 2011 I hosted a group of friends, music fans, and anyone I could fervently convince that they would be very, very remiss in missing a show by CR Avery in a small, unusual venue in the heart of Ottawa, and just steps from my house taboot…

October 6, 2025 IMAX/laser shows / sports / Ticket Stories

100605 IMAX: NASCAR, Gatineau, QC

On October 6th, 2005 I went to IMAX to see their NASCAR movie, but I shouldn’t have…

October 5, 2025 Big Space / Ticket Stories

100524 Big Space, St. John’s

The band was on fire…

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