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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.
July 5, 2025 Little Feat / Ticket Stories

070597 Little Feat, Ottawa, ON

There are entire bands out there that I’ve not had the time to sit down and familiarize myself with…

July 4, 2025 Bob Weir / Bruce Hornsby / Hot Tuna / Los Lobos / Mickey Hart / Ratdog / Rob Wasserman / Ticket Stories

070496 Ratdog/Hot Tuna/Bruce Hornsby/Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box/Los Lobos, Darien Lake, NY

On July 4th, 1996 I attended the first of what would be a lifetime of concerts featuring members of the Grateful Dead…

July 3, 2025 Kenny Neal / Ticket Stories

070391 Kenny Neal, Ottawa, ON

Kenny Neal Kenny Neal…

July 2, 2025 John McLaughlin / Ticket Stories

070297 John McLaughlin, Montreal, QC

This would be my first of several times seeing the absolutely masterful John McLaughlin play guitar…

July 1, 2025 The Beach Boys / Ticket Stories

070189 The Beach Boys, Shediac, NB

Canada Day 1989 with The Beach Boys was my first ticketed outdoor concert…

June 30, 2025 Dave Holland / Gateway / Ticket Stories / Wayne Eagles

063000 Gateway, Montreal, QC

On June 30th, 2000 I drove to Montreal to see Dave Holland playing at the Montréal jazz festival with John Abercrombie and Jack DeJohnette…

June 29, 2025 Phil Collins / Ticket Stories

062985 Phil Collins, Toronto, ON

In 1985 I a seventeen-year-old high school dropout living with my girlfriend…

June 28, 2025 Bela Fleck / Ticket Stories

062805 Bela Fleck, Ottawa, ON

My phone rang on the morning of June 28th, 2005 and I discovered one of the Rogers Television directors on the other end.  “I remember you telling me that you were a fan of Bela Fleck,” he said…

June 27, 2025 Charlie Haden / Ernie Watts / Ticket Stories

062708 Charlie Haden, Ottawa, ON

When the Ottawa jazz festival announced Charlie Haden would be headlining on June 27th, 2008 I nodded knowingly at the famous name with raised eyebrows…

June 26, 2025 Brian Blade / Herbie Hancock / John Patitucci / Michael Brecker / Roy Hargrove / Ticket Stories

062602 Herbie Hancock with Michael Brecker, Roy Hargrove, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade, Ottawa, ON

Herbie Hancock is one of the bona fide jazz giants walking this planet…

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