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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 27, 2026 Dave Holland / Herbie Hancock / John Scofield / Michael Brecker / Ticket Stories

062797 Herbie Hancock, Montreal, QC

The band Hancock had assembled for this project was a hand-picked group of the world’s most elite jazz players…

June 26, 2026 Medeski Martin & Wood / nero / Ticket Stories

062603 Medeski Martin & Wood/nero, Montréal, QC

June 26th, 2003 was the Montréal leg of a two-night stint I spent following instrumental jam/jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood from jazzfest to jazzfest…

June 25, 2026 Medeski Martin & Wood / nero / Ticket Stories

062503 Medeski Martin & Wood/nero, Toronto, ON

Back in the days when I was managing a band I didn’t get to go to many concerts…

June 24, 2026 Bill Frisell / Ticket Stories

062407 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON

Despite what the ticket indicates I recall this show being a trio…

June 23, 2026 Derek Trucks / The Allman Brothers Band / Ticket Stories

062306 The Allman Brothers Band, Niagara Falls, ON

June 23rd, 2006 was the first time I had visited Niagara Falls since I was a little kid…

June 22, 2026 Strippers Union / Ticket Stories

062205 Strippers Union, Ottawa, ON

Strippers Union was basically The Odds with Bobby Baker from The Tragically Hip on guitar…

June 21, 2026 Buddy DeFranco / Ticket Stories

062108 Buddy DeFranco, Ottawa, ON

It drives me bonkers when people moan that a band doesn’t fit the genre of the festival that booked them…

June 20, 2026 Phish / Ticket Stories

062004 Phish, Saratoga Springs, NY

On June 20th, 2004 I attended the second of a two-night Phish run at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center…

June 19, 2026 Haywire / Kim Mitchell / Ticket Stories

061992 Kim Mitchell/Haywire, Moncton, NB

Kim Mitchell is a living emblem of the Canadian musician who found little success outside of this great country of ours… 

June 18, 2026 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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