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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.
May 23, 2026 The White / Ticket Stories

052389 The White, Moncton, NB

The White was a tribute act who did a great job playing Led Zeppelin songs…

May 22, 2026 National Arts Centre Orchestra / Page and Plant / Ticket Stories

052213 NACO plays Led Zeppelin, Ottawa, ON

Sure, Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest guitar-centric, riff-oriented rock bands of all time, but they were also masters of folding lush orchestration into their thunderous, genre-defining catalog…

May 21, 2026 Cirque du Soleil / Ticket Stories

052106 Cirque du Soleil: Quidam, Ottawa, ON

On May 21st, 2006 I walked a few hundred metres from my apartment on Adelaide Street to the old, pre-renovation Lansdowne Park where the Cirque crew had set up their Ikea-coloured big-top Grand Chapiteau…

May 19, 2026 Prince / Ticket Stories

051915 Prince, Toronto, ON

On May 19th, 2015 my friend Doug and I drove to Toronto for what would prove to be my last ever Prince concert…

May 18, 2026 Come Together Music Festival / Grand Theft Bus / Jimmy Swift Band / nero / The John Henrys / The Slip / Ticket Stories

051803 Come Together Music Festival, Durham, ON

Come Together Music Festival was a ragtag fest of friends that booked all the small, relatively unknown Canadian jambands for rollicking three-nighters on each of the four summer long weekends from Victoria Day weekend to Labour Day…

May 17, 2026 Bob Weir / Dead & Co. / Jay Lane / Jeff Chimenti / John Mayer / Mickey Hart / Oteil Burbridge / Ticket Stories

051724 Dead & Co., Las Vegas, NV

I can’t overstate how good the sound is in the Sphere… 

May 16, 2026 Bill Frisell / Ticket Stories

051601 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON

For this ticket story we’re going to have to go all the way back to the Second World War…

May 15, 2026 Ticket Stories / tours

051509 Heineken Brewery Tour, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

In the Spring of 2009 I made my first-ever trip to The Netherlands.  With nothing to do and a lot to see I did a little research and invested in an Amsterdam citypass, basically a coupon booklet for tourism hotspots…

May 14, 2026 Big Wreck / Motley Crue / Ticket Stories

051413 Mötley Crüe/Big Wreck, Ottawa, ON

Of course this concert included Tommy Lee’s obligatory over-the-top drum solo…

May 13, 2026 Cheap Trick / Ticket Stories / ZZ Top

051322 ZZ Top/Cheap Trick, St. John’s, NL

ZZ Top was all class from the get-go…

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