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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.
February 26, 2026 CR Avery / Kevin Breit / Ticket Stories

022609 Kevin Breit/CR Avery, Wakefield, QC

On February 26th, 2009 I went to The Black Sheep in Wakefield, Quebec to see the great Kevin Breit, who was sharing the bill with someone I had never heard of named C. R. Avery…

February 25, 2026 National Arts Centre Orchestra / Ticket Stories

022516 NACO plays Queen, Ottawa, ON

On February 25th, 2016 I went to the National Arts Centre for We Are The Champions: The Music Of Queen; despite the title of the show I knew exactly what I was in for…

February 24, 2026 Coney Hatch / Ticket Stories

022484 Coney Hatch, Richmond Hill

I did not attend this concert. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have a story…

February 23, 2026 Ticket Stories / tours

022398 Peavey Dealer Training Week, Meridian, MS

One day my boss decided that I should take Peavey’s week-long Music Instrument (MI) Dealer course that took place in Meridian, Mississippi, and the boss said he would be footing the bill.  I was in…

February 22, 2026 theme parks / Ticket Stories

022295 Universal Studios, Orlando, FL

Just as the park was closing I pulled my girlfriend towards the JAWS ride.  “C’mon!” I yelped, “We still have time…

February 21, 2026 The Spoons / Ticket Stories

022189 The Spoons, Moncton, NB

Once I started going to see live music there was basically no stopping me aside from the fact that I lived in a geographical area that was largely ignored by musicians big and small. With such a dearth of options I ended up jumping at even the barest inkling of live music…

February 20, 2026 sports / Ticket Stories

022010 Olympic Curling: Canada vs Great Britain, Vancouver, BC

As the Vancouver 2010 Olympics approached I did a little wheelin’ and dealin’ with our ticket package and ended up with passes to a curling competition…

February 19, 2026 sports / Ticket Stories

021910 Olympic Ski Jumping, Whistler, BC

I’m sure it comes as no surprise that this was the first (and only) time I’ve attended a ski jump competition…

February 18, 2026 Elvis Costello / Emily Haines / Eric Mingus / Hal Willner / James Blood Ulmer / Jason Collett / Julie Doiron / Lou Reed / Neil Young / Ron Sexsmith / Ticket Stories

021810 Neil Young Tribute, Vancouver, BC

A congregation of eclecticity under the helm of an equally eclectic record producer best known for directing tribute concerts to an incomparably eclectic string of artists that includes Tim Buckley, Randy Newman, Bill Withers, Walt Disney and the Marquis de Sade…

February 17, 2026 galleries / Ticket Stories

021715 M.C. Escher and Jack Bush exhibits, Ottawa, ON

On February 17th, 2015 I went to Ottawa’s National Gallery for a pair of special exhibitions…

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