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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 5, 2025 By Divine Right / The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

020599 The Tragically Hip/By Divine Right, Montreal, QC

Todd bless The Tragically Hip. Not just because they were simply a great rock band that wrote and performed anthems…

February 4, 2025 museums / Ticket Stories

020411 Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY

Regardless of one’s stance on the sport he championed it is a widely accepted fact that Muhammad Ali was an icon and a hero…

February 3, 2025 Meat Loaf / Ticket Stories

020394 Meat Loaf, Hull, QC

On February 3rd, 1994 I went to see Meat Loaf for the first time…

February 2, 2025 comedy / Liam Small / Mike Lynch / Ticket Stories

020224 Mike Lynch/Liam Small, Harbour Grace, NL

Pop your head into any shed party across the island and you’ll surely find a Cecil O’Brien inside, bent crooked with age and telling tales in rapid-fire, barely intelligible dialect…

February 2, 2025 Steve Earle / Ticket Stories

020201 Steve Earle & The Dukes, Ottawa, ON

The venue was in a carpeted salon area that I would eventually come to know as the home of the Civic Centre’s annual Christmas craft sale…

February 1, 2025 FM / Ticket Stories

020188 FM, Moncton, NB

On February 1st, 1988 I went to Moncton’s Club Cosmopolitan (The Cosmo, we called it) to see Canadian non-icons FM in concert. It’s not like I was a big fan of the band…

January 26, 2025 Bob Wiseman / Don Ross / Ticket Stories

012602 Don Ross/Bob Wiseman, Ottawa, ON

On January 26th, 2002 I furthered my burgeoning career as an young, ambitious, and increasingly cocky concert promoter…

January 25, 2025 Ticket Stories / Trombone Shorty

012515 Trombone Shorty, New Orleans, LA

Mr. Shorty (who is anything but short) is a demigod around New Orleans…

January 24, 2025 Preservation Hall Band / Ticket Stories

012415 Preservation Hall, New Orleans, LA

Preservation Hall in New Orleans must be the most understated famous venue in America…

January 23, 2025 sports / Ticket Stories

012305 Cienciano (Cuzco) vs Unión Española (Santiago), Cuzco, Peru

On January 23rd, 2005 I was cooling my heels in Cuzco, Peru, which is at an elevation of 3,400 metres. I promised myself I wouldn’t drink until I had climatized to the thin air, however…

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