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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 3, 2025 Brian Blade / Chick Corea / Christian McBride / Ticket Stories

100310 The Chick Corea Trio, Ottawa, ON

Chalk up another joyous evening where my musical heart all but explodes with glee and wonder…

October 2, 2025 Red Rider / Ticket Stories / Tom Cochrane / Toronto

100284 Toronto/Red Rider, Moncton, NB

October 2nd, 1984 was my sixth-ever concert and it was my second time seeing Toronto headline at the Moncton Coliseum…

October 1, 2025 Jeff Healey / Ticket Stories

100187 Jeff Healey, Moncton, NB

Sadly I only saw Jeff Healey live once, but man-o-man am I thankful for the memories I have of that night, some of which I present to you here…

September 30, 2025 museums / Ticket Stories

093016 Ljubljana Castle, Ljubljana, Slovenia

In the centre of what is known as the green capital of Europe is a mountain, and atop that mountain is the coolest castle…

September 29, 2025 CR Avery / new poetics / Ticket Stories

092919 CR Avery/new poetics, Ottawa, ON

On September 29th, 2019 I enjoyed a curious confluence of sound and space when CR Avery played a solo show at the All Saints Church just a few blocks from my home in Ottawa…

September 28, 2025 Catherine MacLellan / Grand Analog / Tanya Tagaq / The Creaking Tree String Quartet / The Flaps / Ticket Stories / Veda Hille

092807 The Idea of North: Songs Inspired by Glenn Gould, Gatineau, QC

Glenn Gould was a prodigious piano playing freak of nature who is sometimes referred to as the greatest musician of the twentieth century…

September 27, 2025 The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

092709 The Tragically Hip, Ottawa, ON

On September 27th, 2009 I walked to the National Arts Centre to see the second night of a three-night Tragically Hip run…

September 26, 2025 The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

092609 The Tragically Hip, Ottawa, ON

September 26th, 2009 was the first in a three-night run for The Tragically Hip at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre…

September 25, 2025 galleries / museums / Ticket Stories

092516 Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy

One of the responsibilities one undertakes when galavanting around the planet is exposing one’s self to the local history and culture…

September 24, 2025 National Arts Centre Orchestra / Ticket Stories

092492 NACO plays Rossini, Brahms and Dvořák, Ottawa, ON

I suspect that this ticket from September 24th, 1992 marks the first time ever I saw the NAC Orchestra perform…

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