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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 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…

August 19, 2021 museums / Ticket Stories / tours

081913 Chihuly Garden/Space Needle, Seattle, WA

I don’t recall when or how I became a fan of Dale Chihuly’s work…

August 18, 2021 Blues Traveler / Booker T and the MG's / Neil Young / Pearl Jam / Soundgarden / Ticket Stories

081893 Neil Young with Booker T and the MG’s/Pearl Jam/Soundgarden/Blues Traveler, Toronto, ON

Blues Traveler, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and the great Neil Young who was fronting Booker T and the MG’s, all in an outdoor stadium on a beautiful day; it was a dreamy lineup…

August 17, 2021 Phish / Ticket Stories

081718 Curveball III, Watkins Glen, NY

Amazingly enough, when m’lady and I awoke on the morning of August 17th, 2018 we still didn’t have a plan…

August 16, 2021 Phish / Ticket Stories

081618 Curveball II, Watkins Glen, NY

When I woke up in my tent on August 16th, 2018 life was looking pretty good…

August 15, 2021 Phish / Ticket Stories

081518 Curveball I, Watkins Glen, NY

August 15th, 2018 was a very big day for m’lady and I…

August 14, 2021 Andy McKee / D Rangers / Don Ross / Finest Kind / Ticket Stories / Vieux Farke Touré

081408 Don Ross and Andy McKee/Vieux Farke Touré/Finest Kind/D Rangers, Ottawa, ON

I saw lots of great music over the course of the 2008 Ottawa Folk Festival, including a veritable festival unto itself on August 14th, 2008, the first night of the festivities…

August 13, 2021 Phish / Ticket Stories

081309 Phish, Darien Lake, NY

August 13th, 2009 was the start of little three-show Phish run fairly close to home…

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